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Angband Vanilla represents a foundational turn-based roguelike experience rooted in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium. Players navigate a complex dungeon environment, battling monsters and accumulating power to ultimately confront Morgoth across one hundred levels. This classic variant is favored by thos...
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FrogComposband is a challenging turn-based roguelike game inspired by Angband and PosChengband. It offers a significant expansion of the classic dungeon experience with numerous character birth options and enhanced content. The game appeals to players who enjoy traditional roguelikes demanding strat...
Moscow pyramid is a variation of Russian pyramid billiards played on a large 12-foot table with very narrow pockets. The game utilizes fifteen white object balls and a colored cue ball, and it is distinguished by its strict scoring rules where both pocketed object balls and a legally pocketed cue ba...
Cambodian Chess, known as Ouk Chaktrang, is the traditional chess game of Cambodia, closely related to Thai Makruk and descended from Chaturanga.
Hack’EM is an open source roguelike game inspired by NetHack and Slash’EM. It provides a traditional dungeon crawling experience with enhanced features and greater challenge. The project is notable for its active community development and adherence to the classic roguelike genre. Hack’EM is suitable...
Composband is a traditional roguelike derived from the Angband family of games and assembled from systems found in PosChengband, Kangband, and other variants. It uses turn-based, tile-by-tile dungeon exploration, permanent character death, procedural generation, and a large collection of races, clas...
UnNetHack is a free, open-source variant of the traditional roguelike NetHack, initiated by Patric Mueller and developed with community contributions. It retains NetHack's turn-based dungeon exploration, character roles, permadeath, and dense system interactions while introducing new content, balanc...
PosChengband is a highly complex variant of the classic dungeon-crawling roguelike Angband, specifically derived from Chengband. It integrates concepts from Posband and RePosBand, most notably expanding the roster of playable monster races to include creatures like jellies, xorns, and dragons. Desig...
xNetHack is a variant of the traditional turn-based roguelike game NetHack, developed by a community member known as aosdict. Based on the NetHack 5.0 codebase, the project aims to refine the original gameplay experience rather than expand it with complex new mechanics. The variant is distinguished...
Italian Progressive Chess is a variant where players sequentially increase their moves per turn, but checks are only permitted to deliver mate.
Dynamic pyramid is a regional variant of Russian pyramid billiards played on a large pool table with narrow pockets. The defining rule of the game is that any of the fifteen white balls can serve as the cue ball for a shot. After a stroke, the ball that was struck becomes the cue ball for the next t...
"Whittington and His Cat" is a traditional British pantomime based on the English folk tale of Richard Whittington, a historical merchant and Lord Mayor of London. The story follows a poor orphan boy and his feline companion who travel to foreign lands, where the cat's rat-catching abilities bring t...
Slash'EM (Super Lots of Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) is a variant of the roguelike game NetHack, initiated by Warren Cheung in 1997. Building upon NetHack's foundation, Slash'EM introduced numerous additions including new character classes like the Necromancer and Flame Mage, additional monste...
Mujaddara Safra is a variant of the traditional Middle Eastern lentil and grain dish, specifically characterized by its yellow color from red lentils or spices.
EvilHack is a difficult variant of the classic roguelike game NetHack, built upon the game's 3.6.2 source code. First developed by Keith Simpson in 2018, the project introduces new player roles, additional monster types, and expanded dungeon branches to increase the base difficulty. It incorporates...
Hengband is a freeware, turn-based roguelike game that originated as a Japanese variant of the dungeon crawler Zangband, which itself was derived from Angband. The game is available in both Japanese and English and is noted for introducing interface and gameplay improvements that influenced later An...
Absurdle is an adversarial word-guessing game created by programmer qntm, heavily inspired by the mechanics of Wordle. Unlike traditional word-guessing games where a target word is chosen beforehand, Absurdle uses an algorithm that dynamically changes the target word based on the player's input. The...
dNetHack is a variant of the classic roguelike game NetHack, developed by ChrisANG. It significantly expands upon the original game by introducing additional character roles, new artifacts, and entirely new dungeon branches. The modification is notable for incorporating deep, lore-heavy systems that...
Oh Hell, also known as Blackout, is a trick-taking card game where players must bid exactly how many tricks they will win in each hand. The number of cards dealt to each player changes each round, typically following a sequence that rises and falls throughout the game. Originating in the early 20th...
An early British harlequinade pantomime merging the Aladdin story from One Thousand and One Nights with commedia dell'arte characters, popular in the early 19th century.
Zangband is a free, open-source roguelike computer game and a prominent variant of Angband, originally developed in 1994 by Topi Ylinen. The title is derived from Roger Zelazny's fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber, which heavily influences the game's additional quests, items, and settings. It ap...
Cylindrical Chess is a three-dimensional variant conceptualized on a cylinder, allowing pieces to wrap around from the left edge to the right edge.
"The Sleeping Princess" is a British pantomime adaptation of the classic "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, famously published by Charles Perrault in 1697. Traditional British pantomimes combine theatrical comedy, music, and audience participation, typically staged during the holiday season. The narrativ...
FAangband, which stands for First Age Angband, is a traditional turn-based roguelike variant derived from the Angband codebase. The game is heavily themed around the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, specifically focusing on the First Age of Middle-earth in the region of Beleriand. It disti...
Harlequin and Cinderella is an early 19th-century British pantomime that integrates the traditional Cinderella fairy tale with the conventions of the harlequinade. In this theatrical format, the magical elements of the story serve as a transition into a comedic chase sequence featuring commedia dell...
GnollHack is a traditional turn-based roguelike game developed by Sound Mind Games, functioning as a variant of the classic 1987 dungeon crawler NetHack. The game modernizes the classic formula by introducing highly detailed combat mechanics, an expanded selection of playable races and roles, and na...
Brazilian snooker, also known as sinuca brasileira, is a regional variant of snooker officially standardized in Brazil that is uniquely played using only one red ball.
Oangband (Opinion Angband) is a variant of the open-source roguelike game Angband. Developed as a modification to address perceived gameplay imbalances and design issues in the original Angband, Oangband introduces redesigned character classes, enhanced monster AI, and a revised item system that pla...
