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Top 20 C Roguelike Projects
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Perhaps relevant to this audience: NetHack has a routine specifically for this.
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-5.0/src/objn...
I think I agree with the comment in NH5 that some of the new cases "probably shouldn't be handled here", and think maybe NH3.4.3's simpler version should've been fine for NetHack's purposes:
https://github.com/Vanilla-NetHack/NetHack-3.4.3/blob/master...
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AppSignal
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BrogueCE
Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
Project mention: Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. written in 4kLoC | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-09are you familiar with the actual game Brogue[1]?
1: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
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Rogue-Collection
Retro Rogue Collection: Six versions of the classic Rogue game with customizable retro graphics. Now with Rogomatic support!
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SlashTHEM
Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - The Heavily Extended Mod: A variant of Slash'EM that adds a bunch of content.
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Project mention: Restoring a lost 1981 Unix roguelike (protoHack) and preserving Hack 1.0.3 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-07
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Furyband
This is a game based on Tales of Middle Earth (version 2). Also contained is the Zop's Furyband mod.
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dark
C practice - basic roguelike in SDL2 that compiles both for desktop and Emscripten (by Zireael07)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Roguelike discussion
C Roguelike related posts
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English: A vs. An
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Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. written in 4kLoC
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NetHack 5.0.0
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HyperRogue, the non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece
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The Story of Rogue
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Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web
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Installing NH 3.7 on Win11 without using Linux?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Roguelike projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | NetHack | 3,933 |
| 2 | angband | 1,568 |
| 3 | BrogueCE | 1,483 |
| 4 | Rogue-Collection | 364 |
| 5 | GnollHack | 161 |
| 6 | SLASHEM-Extended | 147 |
| 7 | FAangband | 98 |
| 8 | xNetHack | 73 |
| 9 | mangband | 71 |
| 10 | brogue-android-port | 69 |
| 11 | terminal-mines | 66 |
| 12 | Unangband | 65 |
| 13 | RL_M | 42 |
| 14 | breakhack | 41 |
| 15 | ToME-SX | 34 |
| 16 | SlashTHEM | 33 |
| 17 | helapordo | 26 |
| 18 | protoHack | 14 |
| 19 | Furyband | 9 |
| 20 | dark | 9 |
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