Rogue likes for PC

[justice]

I seem to have become a fan of the genre of "rogue like" games. I've heard this originated with Gauntlet, but I am only familiar with IOS games like "Sword of Fargoal", "Dungelot" and "Dungeon Raid". All of these are excellent. I really like the character progression, randomized dungeons etc.
Could anyone point me to good rogue likes for PC?

[Deozaan]

I seem to have become a fan of the genre of "rogue like" games. I've heard this originated with Gauntlet.

-justice (February 19, 2013, 03:16 AM)

Roquelikes^w originated with Rogue (sort of). That's why they're "like Rogue."

Here are a few that should keep you busy for a while:

Angband
POWDER
Dungeons of Dredmor
Desktop Dungeons

Of the above, I've played them all, except for Angband which I've never played. I've spent most of my time playing POWDER, and the least time playing Dungeons of Dredmor, though I think Dredmor has more going for it that Desktop Dungeons.

Oh, and you can also play Dwarf Fortress in "Adventure Mode" which is very much a Roguelike. (Though I spent about 99%+ of my time with Dwarf Fortress playing Fortress Mode)

[ConstanceJill]

Hey there .o/
Well I guess you might want to try this one : http://www.dosgamesa....com/download/rogue/ ^^

[nidusin]

Another one that is very popular at the moment is 'FTL: Faster Than Light' . Set in space.  Very basic,  very lightweight indie game that I have really enjoyed.  Not enough space here to do a full review but check out totalbiscuit's review on YouTube if you want a look at it. Costs about $5 for a DRM free edition or a steam key from ftlgame.com. I'm not affiliated at all just a happy gamer.

[CWuestefeld]

I know the topic specifies PC, but I just thought I'd add:

I've been having a lot of fun recently playing a Rogue-like called Cardinal Quest on my Android.

Rogue likes for PC

[kilele]

There you have some freeware indie games.
http://mightyvision....2012/04/zaga-33.html
http://redrogue.net/
http://bigbadwofl.net/
http://www.roguetemple.com/z/index.php
http://roguetemple.c...dex.php?topic=2068.0
http://forums.tigsou...ex.php?topic=26591.0

[Deozaan]

Today marked the beginning of the annual 7-Day Roguelike, in which the objective is to program a Roguelike in 7 days (stop coding 168 hours after you started).

You can take a look at all of the games that have been pledged (so far) here: http://7drl.roguetem...om/jsp/viewGames.jsp

[panzer]

http://www.nethack.org/
http://users.tkk.fi/...tpelto2/nethack.html
http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture

http://egoboo.sourceforge.net/

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/

http://www.freewaref...ds_program_8052.html

http://www.freewaref...e_program_17979.html

http://www.runesword.com/rs2.html

http://dd.penguinadv.../index.php?file=main

http://te4.org/

http://sourceforge.n...t/projects/gearhead/

http://adom.de/adom/roguelike.php3

http://ivan.sourceforge.net/

http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html

http://roguesurvivor...pot.com/p/about.html

http://roguebasin.ro...index.php?title=Fame

http://www.jmp.fi/~s...rane/urw_whatis.html

Enjoy!

[p3lb0x]

There's also the recently released Sword of the Stars: The Pit. For a more scifi oriented experience. I haven't played it myself yet, but I am thinking of getting it.

[Lashiec]

No love for DoomRL? For shame DC, for shame.

[nidusin]

WOW! DoomRL is beautiful. Definitely going to check that one out! Only scary thing is the sprites they're using wouldn't be far off the original resolutions

[gameaddict20]

I've heard my friends talk about these Ancient Domains of Mystery(http://www.adom.de/adom/) , Dwarf Fortress(http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/) and Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King (http://www.incursion-roguelike.org/), don't know if they are any good though

[Deozaan]

Another one that is very popular at the moment is 'FTL: Faster Than Light' . Set in space.  Very basic,  very lightweight indie game that I have really enjoyed.  Not enough space here to do a full review but check out totalbiscuit's review on YouTube if you want a look at it. Costs about $5 for a DRM free edition or a steam key from ftlgame.com. I'm not affiliated at all just a happy gamer.

-nidusin (March 04, 2013, 05:42 AM)

I just bought this from http://ftlgame.com/ for $2.50 (using Humble Store which means it's also redeemable on Steam) (and the game is also available on GOG.com for the same price) (both prices are sales that end in about 11 hours!) and it's awesome. I just wanted to say: Get it now while it's cheap. Or don't, and pay full price for it. It's worth it either way.

[Deozaan]

I made a DonationCoder themed ship with Mouser, Josh, and Gothic. (Josh had already died by this point, due to some infectious space disease.)

Here's the full nearly hour-long video of this play session:

DoCoShip's Final Battle

Here's a video of the final battle of the DoCoShip.