crawl VS sequell

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

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/

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.

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.

Since Brogue's already been mentioned, I'd add Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Tales of Maj Eyal as pretty beginner friendly games.

For people who don't follow trunk, Okawru's gifting has been changed (and arguably* nerfed):

My personal first timer recommendation? Maybe Nethack or Dungeon crawl?

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.

Major thanks to this subreddit, the wiki (so glad it’s back!), the learndb and the knowledge bots, listgame and Sequell, and the #crawl IRC channel for being incredibly valuable resources for learning about DCSS. And my profound gratitude to the Devteam for putting together an incredible game and continuing the development in the open (I lurk #crawl-dev sometimes), and Linley Henzell for writing the original Crawl back in the day.

Full manual for sequell bot commands is here: https://github.com/crawl/sequell/blob/master/docs/listgame.md

If you play online, you can use listgame to query for games, either on IRC, the Discord, or maybe in the in-game chat. For example, !log . xl=1 d:3 -2 will link to the morgue for your (".") second-to-most recent ("-2") XL 1 death on D3.

To add up, if someone wants to list/filter games happening between all servers you can use the !lg (!lg documentation) command in IRC or Discord chat servers.

So if data is what you are interested in, familiarize yourself with sequell / !lg it allows you to query morgue files. It's fairly advanced already and you can "easily" ask questions like "How many people died to Natasha in the last week". So if you want to do data analysis, that's where I would start.

If you want, I could help you walk through the setup process to get a local database of the data. I more or less just followed the readme instructions at https://github.com/crawl/sequell but if there are specific questions or your get stuck feel free to DM me. Once you have that, you can run a SQL client to do queries on the database and generate csvs of whatever raw data you want. Then process them accordingly and do any number of analytics.

Interesting, it looks like some metadata file gets shared across servers which is likely exactly what is getting pulled into (https://github.com/crawl/sequell).

Yeah, I'm not even doing direct SQL calls. It's through an api called sequell. Referece: https://github.com/crawl/sequell/blob/master/docs/listgame.md