crawl
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository (by crawl)
angband
A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game (by angband)
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crawl
Posts with mentions or reviews of crawl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
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Slay the Spire 2 Announced – Using Godot
It's probably not as rigorous as what you're thinking of but the devs of DCSS have cited online win rates of certain combinations as the impetus for balance changes before.
https://crawl.develz.org
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The Mana World Classic – Open-Source Mmorpg
In a similar vein, see Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a free and open-source roguelike that's been continuously developed by volunteers for 20 years: http://crawl.develz.org/
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Trog
They are entirely too humanoid. I mean, look at these splash screens: Kiku, Ignis, Chei. While those images shouldn't be taken as canonical, they at least demonstrate the general inhumanity of the Crawl pantheon.
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Games you can play for 20+ hours and not get bored?
Since you like turn-based games too, try some old-school roguelikes. Many are open-source freeware so you have nothing to lose but time. I've been playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for almost 10 years.
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any suggestions for a beginner roguelike? something that's not infuriating
Since Brogue's already been mentioned, I'd add Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Tales of Maj Eyal as pretty beginner friendly games.
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new Oka should have the option to refuse gifts, like refusing Ru sacrifices
For people who don't follow trunk, Okawru's gifting has been changed (and arguably* nerfed):
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Game to Play at Work
My personal first timer recommendation? Maybe Nethack or Dungeon crawl?
- Early thoughts on the new shapeshifter (transmuter) mechanics
- Games without a hunger mechanic.
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What is your favourite open source game(s)?
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Free traditional roguelike with fair mechanics and a lot of variety between species/skill/god choices (~25 gods and maybe with the exception of sif/veh and oka/trog, they are very distinct). The tiles are great. There's many developers and they are very welcoming of code or vault contributions. Reducing incentives to play tediously is one of the goals. Easily hundreds of hours of gameplay for free. Playable online (connecting to a server through your browser/terminal) or offline (terminal or tiles version). There have been win streaks of 50+ games with a variety of species/background combos so you know it's mostly fair(it IS possible for rng to give you an unwinnable game), but it's very difficult if your goal is to win every game.
angband
Posts with mentions or reviews of angband.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Angband - Roguelike Dungeon Crawler. C
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How I installed the Linux version of angband from the aur repository on to my steam deck.
And it worked, it downloaded and installed angband however with a font glitch that can be resolved with a command I found from ( https://github.com/angband/angband/issues/4575 )
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Working on my first procedural-level generator.
Broge, Angband, C:DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, are some options.
- is this a vault? i'm confused about what vaults look like. made it down to DL29 and haven't found one yet.
- C Roguelike Resources?
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Help with pausing while traveling
Link to Angband running code, which has some of the features you're describing. It's a big chunk of C, but about halfway down there's a comment with a bunch of description which might be useful.
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my `k` key don't work on target mode (roguelike keyset)
This is a known bug in 4.2.3, it's fixed in the development releases that you can find here.
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Reading source code for learning purposes.
Angband
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People To Make Games With: A Free Resource
There is a way to get many people contributing and collaborating to a single project over extended periods, even as individual people come and go. That way is called free and open-source software. See e.g. Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, Brogue: Community Edition, Angband, Cataclysm: DDA.
- Suggestions for games that can be played on the terminal
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crawl and angband you can also consider the following projects:
seed-search - Utilities to catalog and search data for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup dungeon generation seeds
NetHack - Official NetHack Git Repository
Cataclysm-DDA - Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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FAangband - First Age Angband
BrogueCE - Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
how-to-mod-roguelikes - A walkthrough on creating your own variants of free and open-source roguelike games
SpecBAS - An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs
DOOM - DOOM Open Source Release