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  2. List of roguelikes - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. This is a selected list of roguelike video games. Roguelike games are those that incorporate elements of role-playing games with procedural generation, following the formula of the genre's namesake, Rogue. Due to the large number of variations on this concept, roguelikes are normally classified as either being a classical roguelike ...

  3. Roguelike - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character. Most roguelikes are based on a high fantasy narrative, reflecting their influence from tabletop role ...

  4. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    1. In a cooperative multiplayer game, a team of players working together to complete the same mission or quest. See Role-playing game § Game mechanics. 2. In a single player game, a group of characters traveling together on a quest that the player may control or have the most direct access to.

  5. Tower defense - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, in Missile Command, the sole target of the attackers is the base, not a specific player character. [4] While later arcade games like Defender (1981) and Choplifter (1982) lacked the strategy element of Missile Command, they began a trend of games that shifted the primary objective to defending non-player items. In these games ...

  6. Don't Starve - Wikipedia

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    Don't Starve is a survival game developed by Klei Entertainment.The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on April 23, 2013. [1] A PlayStation 4 port, renamed Don't Starve: Giant Edition, became available the following year (with PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 versions released in September 2014 and June 2015 respectively, and an Xbox One version released in ...

  7. Arknights - Wikipedia

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    Arknights (Chinese: 明日方舟; pinyin: Míngrì Fāngzhōu; lit. 'Ark of Tomorrow') is a free-to-play tactical RPG / tower defense mobile game developed by Chinese developer Hypergryph. It was released in China on 1 May 2019, in other countries on 16 January 2020, and in Taiwan on 29 June 2020. [1]

  8. NetHack - Wikipedia

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    NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1982 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and ...

  9. History of Western role-playing video games - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Western role-playing video games are role-playing video games developed in the Western world, including The Americas and Europe. They originated on mainframe university computer systems in the 1970s, were later popularized by titles such as Ultima and Wizardry in the early- to mid-1980s, and continue to be produced for modern home ...