shadow-of-the-wyrm VS BrogueCE

Another vote for Shadow of the Wyrm. Classic style but a modern developer.

Shadow of the Wyrm is a much more recent game, but worth playing. I think it defaults to graphical tiles now, but you can play it in ASCII too.

Shadow of the Wyrm (open world)

Shadow of the Wyrm. It does have graphical tiles these days but I usually play it in text.

If you're still interested try theses games - https://www.shadowofthewyrm.org/ - https://www.thegroundgivesway.com/ - Angband - ToME4

Other than that I suppose Shadow of the Wyrm and Caves of Qud have interesting and fantastical worlds that you can be immersed in.

Caves of Qud, Elona, Unreal World and Shadow of the Wyrm are main ones that come to mind as not being entirely about dungeon crawling(though only Unreal World isn't at all about it).

Shadow of the Wyrm totally has this feeling, of a big open lore-filled world and you're just this adventurer wandering around talking to NPCs, crossing whatever bodies of water you like (once you get the means), visiting whatever towns you're interested in, and interestingly doing so is purely for exploration/because you want to, and not because some NPC told you to :P

Shadow of the Wyrm, maybe?

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.