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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.
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.
Hack was created in 1982 by Jay Fenlason with the assistance of Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome, and Jonathan Payne, while students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. [4] A greatly extended version was first released on Usenet in 1984 by Andries Brouwer.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike game where the player creates a character and guides it through a dungeon, mostly consisting of persistent levels, full of monsters and items, with the goal of retrieving the "Orb of Zot" (a MacGuffin) located there, and escaping alive.
Rogue screenshot CAR. The player character is an adventurer. The game starts at the uppermost level of an unmapped dungeon with myriad monsters and treasures. The goal is to fight a way to the bottom level, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor ("Rodney" spelled backwards), then ascend to the surface. [1]
Mystery Dungeon, known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon, [a] is a series of roguelike role-playing video games.Most were developed by Chunsoft, now Spike Chunsoft since the merging in 2012, and select games were developed by other companies with Chunsoft's permission.
Slay the Spire is a combination of roguelike-inspired progression and the gameplay of a deck-building card game.At the start of a playthrough the player selects one of four predetermined characters, [a] which sets a starting amount of health, gold, a starting relic which provides a unique ability for that character, and an initial deck of cards with basic attack and defense, as well as ...
Pre-release gameplay of Returnal. Returnal is a third-person shooter video game [3] featuring roguelike elements and falling under the psychological horror genre. [4] [5] In a futuristic science fiction setting, the player controls Selene Vassos (), [6] a space pilot, equipped with a suit and armed with high-tech weapons, who is stranded on the alien planet Atropos and stuck in a time loop.