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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open source turn-based roguelike game built around tactical tile movement and combat. It’...

Dungeon Turn Based Open Source Traditional

9.4 Excellent

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Brogue

Brogue is Brian Walker's 2009 roguelike, notable for pairing strict single-character dungeon play with polished color AS...

Modern Dungeon Turn Based Traditional

9.2 Excellent

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Brogue Community Edition

Brogue Community Edition is a community-maintained fork of Brian Walker's Brogue, notable for keeping the open-source ro...

Dungeon Turn Based Community Traditional

9.2 Excellent

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Cogmind

Cogmind is a 2017 science-fiction roguelike by Grid Sage Games, notable for robot part scavenging and a dense terminal-s...

Dungeon Sci Fi Turn Based Traditional

9.2 Excellent

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ADOM

ADOM, or Ancient Domains of Mystery, is Thomas Biskup's 1994 roguelike, notable for its Ancardia world and major-rogueli...

Fantasy Dungeon Classic Turn Based

9.1 Excellent

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Sil-Q

Sil-Q is a community continuation of Sil, notable for revising the Tolkien roguelike's skills, balance, interface, and l...

Dungeon Turn Based Stealth Traditional

8.9 Great

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Sil

Sil is a Tolkien-themed Angband variant by half, notable for focusing on the First Age, stealth, songs, and a compact 10...

Dungeon Turn Based Stealth Traditional

8.8 Great

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DoomRL

DoomRL is Kornel Kisielewicz's Doom-inspired roguelike begun in 2002, notable for translating shooter pacing into turn-b...

Classic Turn Based Traditional Shooter

8.6 Great

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Infra Arcana

Infra Arcana is a Lovecraftian horror roguelike by Martin Tornqvist, notable for emphasizing dread, firearms, and occult...

Dungeon Turn Based Traditional Horror

8.4 Great

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The Ground Gives Way

The Ground Gives Way is a coffeebreak roguelike, notable for equipment-based progression, short runs, and about 700 uniq...

Compact Dungeon Turn Based Traditional

8.2 Great

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Zorbus

Zorbus is a 2019 fantasy roguelike, notable for tactical party-like dungeon play, active NPC factions, and a tabletop RP...

Fantasy Dungeon Turn Based Traditional

8.1 Great

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FrogComposband

FrogComposband is a PosChengband and Composband variant with many birth options, more content, humour and fixes than its...

Dungeon Turn Based Traditional Variant

8.1 Great

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ToME 2

ToME 2 is an Angband-derived Tolkien roguelike in the Tales of Middle Earth line, notable as the stable 2.x branch befor...

RPG Fantasy Classic Turn Based

8.0 Great

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Hack

Hack is a mid-1980s Unix roguelike expanded by Andries Brouwer from Jay Fenlason's code, notable as the direct ancestor...

Dungeon Classic Turn Based Traditional

8.0 Great

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IVAN

IVAN, or Iter Vehemens ad Necem, is a 2001 Finnish roguelike, notable for detailed body-part damage and material-changin...

Dungeon Turn Based Traditional Comedy

7.9 Good

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xNetHack

xNetHack is a NetHack variant by aosdict, based on NetHack 5.0 development, noted for balance fixes and reduced tedium r...

Dungeon Turn Based Traditional Variant

7.8 Good

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Omega

Omega is a roguelike by Laurence Brothers, notable for a large countryside, extended plot and multiple endings beyond a...

Fantasy Dungeon Classic Turn Based

7.7 Good

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Hengband

Hengband is a Japanese Zangband-derived Angband variant, available in Japanese and English and associated with major int...

Dungeon Turn Based Traditional Variant

7.7 Good

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Umoria

Umoria is James E. Wilson's 1987 C port of Moria, notable for making Koeneke's Tolkien-inspired roguelike widely portabl...

Dungeon Classic Turn Based Traditional

7.6 Good

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Larn

Larn is a 1986 Unix roguelike by Noah Morgan, notable for a persistent town and a time-limited quest to cure the hero's...

Fantasy Dungeon Classic Turn Based

7.4 Good