crawl VS CDDA-Game-Launcher

However: https://github.com/kimjoy2002/crawl/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md "Added two-headed ogre(playable). Can wear 2 weapons and 2 amulets. But you can't wear a shield" - kimchi has two-headed ogres, but AFAIK they don't get two religions.

It does an excellent job. The added content fits with the design philosophy the game had back when it was adding and trying out new things all the time. For example, Wights are playable and some of the most fun I've had with the game. Awful aptitudes in almost everything, but nice undead bonuses/resistances and the ability to curse their held weapon for an enchantment buff. Kimchi hasn't seen an update in about a year, but they were actively polling players on which content they'd like to see restored for some time and actually following through on it. https://github.com/kimjoy2002/crawl

And in top of all that, makes hundreds of new additions, while regularly merging new changes from up to date DCSS versions. You can play as a Hydra that grows a new head every level and an amulet slot every other level until becoming the Lernaean hydra with 27 heads! How exciting and awesome is that? You can check the huge changelog here.

Barony, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup Kimchi, Tales of Maj'Eyal - there's almost nothing better than randomness, immediacy and pausability of roguelikes, but there's also so much unfulfillment after Yet Another Stupid Death when trying to play casually, even with savescumming, permadeath off and other "little" cheats,

Kimchi is a fork of DCSS. It tries to imitate the original experience from the late 00s which some players prefer.

I can personally recommend Kimchi if you prefer old DCSS. It adds back all the old races like for example sludge elves and mountain dwarfes, all the old classes and previously removed items.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - One of the best and most popular roguelike out there at the moment. Kimchi is a fork of DCSS and tries to be closer to the original experience from back in the day which some players like better.

for experimental I use this launcher. https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releases

I don't know what launcher people use, but this file on this one defines the cdda repo urls: https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/blob/master/cddagl/constants.py You could probably just changes that file to use tish urls.

i got over to here:https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releasesbut i dont know what to download (still clueless to using Github)

I highly recommend using a launcher, like the CDDA Launcher (which is not being updated anymore but still works well), or Catapult. These will not only launch the game, but will allow you to easily manage tilesets, soundpacks, save backups, etc.

Cataclysm DDA

Also, the game is 100% free. Gets multiple experimental updates daily (open-source). And has a fairly extensive modding scene with multiple tileset options to play with. You can grab the launcher here and it will let you download everything you need to start messing around.