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Branching Out to Other Roguelikes

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Ashannar:
NetHack was my first roguelike. I spent years becoming good at that game. I like it, but I've forgotten enough more about that game than there is to learn about most roguelikes and I can still win.

I'm also quite fond of Crawl and ToME 4.

I can safely say none of them I like as much as DoomRL, though. Some come sort of close, but DoomRL has an indescribable charm that meshes very well with my personality.

Matstaal:
Anyone ever played a little gem called Ragnarok? It's a fantasy roguelike based on Norse mythology, and incredibly random. I remember it being the first roguelike I played, though it did have basic sprites and graphics.

some gems:
-mix potions with random and unexpected results... drink them anyway
-turn into a werewolf, sit back and watch your character go berserk around the map whenever the moon comes out.
-start out as a human, but turn into weird races by eating mushrooms, drinking potions, reading scrolls, etc
-scroll of genocide. name any race and it immediatly goes extinct... not a high-level item either, you could easily find one in the first few minutes or even spawn with one as a scribe.
and yes, you can name human and kill yourself...

LuckyDee:

--- Quote from: Matstaal on April 23, 2013, 09:42 ---Anyone ever played a little gem called Ragnarok?

--- End quote ---

I was actually looking this up a couple of days back, since I played it about 20 years ago. Kicked ass!

(actually found some stuff about it too)

Anybody still have this?

Evilpotatoe:
Google and Wikipedia give this link : http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/ragnarok.htm

Actually, I don't remember much from this game, It was cute, but looked extremely random to me.

lmaoboat:
Incursion is one of my favorites:
http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/
It's got some of the best varied ASCII dungeon design I've seen, tons of interesting and unique loot, and is based off D&D 3.5.
Unfortunately, it's been in development hell forever, and was recently shelved by it's developer.

SotS: The Pit is one I've been playing recently:
http://sots-thepit.com/
The RNG can be rather cruel in terms of not being able to find vital equipment, and the combat is rather slow and simple, but it's otherwise a surprisingly polished and well thought out RL. There's a huge variety of items that can be found and crafted, and a metagame involving learning crafting recipes for useful equipment or food are persistent between characters. You could just looked them up on the wiki, but this is one of the few game's I've not been felt the urge to do so.

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