BrogueCE VS ivan

For a long time, most traditional roguelikes were free (although there seem to be more on steam lately). I think Brogue is a good place to start; it isn't too complicated, it has some nice quality of life stuff, cooperates with a mouse, and its pretty for its genre.

I only play community edition, and my ascensions have been lightning, conjuration, teleport and some reaping combinations. My mastery was teleport with invis/reaping support. Multiplicity weapons are good (spear, rapier) but i tend to get ambitious and play hard for a mastery and screw it up.

Your best option is Brogue (community edition), in my opinion.

Brogue

Brogue is another good option if you're down with rogue-likes, can basically run on anything (& has an Android version).

Adding Brogue [1] to the list. Neat and very well balanced.

[1] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

Broge, Angband, C:DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, are some options.

Source

This one's a bit of a long shot, but it's free, and if she ends up liking it then it'll open up a whole genre that can run on integrated graphics: IVAN

IVAN (https://github.com/Attnam/ivan)

A rougelike where you can have your legs severed, pray to a god to have them regenerated and have them regenerated as bananas.

IVAN is another one that does that kind of thing, but is pretty good instead of awful. XD It's hard as hell though.

Ivan, Although it's marked on the sidebar as a popular roguelike, I have rarely ever seen anyone mention it on this sub.

Iter Vehemens ad Necem aka. IVAN - IVAN is regarded as one of the more difficult roguelike games, and is also known for innovative game design and sarcastic backgrounds. You could also check out the updated fan-variant CLIVAN which adds a lot of new content.

"I.V.A.N" (Iter Vehemens ad Necem) on github