What's your favorite rogue-like?

[adventofcomputing]

Anyone have an old rogue-like game they are particularly fond of? I feel like there are a lot of weird ones tucked away that are tons of fun.

Personally, I really enjoy alphaman(http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Alphaman). It's something between the old isometric fallout games and rogue. You get to slash your way through an unending wasteland full of mutant flora and fauna.

 

[Ramokromok]

Alphaman definitely sounds worth a look, I'll check that out.

I'm never completely sure the difference between a Roguelike and a Roguelite, but here goes:

Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20), 1982

Probably the first Rogue-type game I played, and long before I know what Rogue was!

The Binding of Issac, 2011

I was going to call this a recent game, but having checked - it's ten years old! I played a lot of this when it came out and got slightly addicted to it.

AfterParty (Vic 20), 2020

This one I discovered when I did my round-up of best recent homebrew games for the VIC-20 - partly what I liked about it, is that there's no dungeons. The premise it that you wake up after a party, and needing the loo, have to stumble about in the dark looking for for the loo, but avoiding stubbing your toe on objects in the room.

 

[adventofcomputing]

I'm gonna have to try out afterparty. That sounds really cool, especially since it's for old hardware.

 

[duhproject]

When I was rocking my Ouya, there was a game on there called 100 Rogues. Loved it! It's probably still around for Android, but I still play it on my old hacked Ouya. It's a fun one!

 

[Ramokromok]

but I still play it on my old hacked Ouya. It's a fun one!

I've got an Ouya that I haven't got round to hacking yet. Sounds like something I need to look into - did some googling and 100 Rogues sounds pretty fun!