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All sites dealing primarily with more than one Rogue-like game or Rogue-like games that do not have their own category can be submitted to this category.

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Use your site's actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We're the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!)
Avoid using terms such as much more, lots, more, or anything else that would indicate that there is more to your site than what is in the description. Take the time to list out what the site has instead of using these terms.
Your description should resemble descriptions of sites already listed in the category.

"Roguelike games, and there are hundreds ... nay ... thousands of variants out there, all share a few common characteristics. First, they are free. Second, they are turn based single player games that involve a player character, usually represented by an '@' symbol, who travels through randomly generated dungeons killing LOTS of monsters, also represented by a variety of ASCII symbols. The character grows in power, accumulating magic items, better armor, and deadlier weapons as he or she descends.
But for me, the defining characteristic of a Roguelike game, that characteristic that makes a Roguelike game such a nail biting experience is that once you die, you're dead. For good. Game over."
- From Adventures in ASCII, by Jeff Miller

7DRL

Please submit only games developed as part of the official rec.games.roguelike.development 7DRL challenges

Roguelikes made as part of the official 7DRL Challenges.
7DRL's are roguelike games finished in seven days of development. Challenges for these kind of games are commonly made once or twice a year on the roguelike development community.

Sites about Ancient Domains of Mystery, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.

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- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
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Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) is a computer role-playing game. The game uses ASCII characters to create a map representing the players surrounding. Thanks to the depth and detail allowed by simplified graphics, ADOM can take months to finish, and may grant even years of fun.

AlphaMan

Sites about AlphaMan, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Angband

Please submit sites about Angband or variants derived from Angband. This may include sites with downloads, FAQs, savefiles, screen dumps, information, or discussion groups.

Sites about games derived directly from Moria should be submitted to Games: Video Games: Genres: RPGs: Rogue-like: Moria

Sites about games derived directly from Rogue should be submitted to Games: Video Games: Genres: RPGs: Rogue-like: Rogue

Angband is a freeware computer role playing game based loosely on the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, in which the player explores the dungeon of Angband, killing monsters, collecting treasure, and eventually defeating Morgoth, the Master of the Pits of Angband.

Cheats and Hints

Contains sites which provide cheats, frequently asked questions (FAQs), walkthroughs, help files, hints, and codes for Rogue-like games.

Commercial Roguelikes

Submit only sites of commercial RPGs with roguelike elements

Commercial RPGs with roguelike elements

Crossfire

Sites about Crossfire, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.

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"Crossfire is a multi-player graphical arcade game ... It has certain flavours from other games, especially Gauntlet and the rogue-like games (NetHack, Moria, Angband, and Ragnarok.) Any number of players can move around in their own window, finding and using items and battling monsters. They can choose to cooperate or compete in the same world."
- Frank Tore Johansen, author

Decker

Sites about Decker, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Dragon Crystal

Sites about Dragon Crystal, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.
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The description should resemble existing category entries:

Briefly summarize existing content (25 words or less).

Avoid first-person wordings (e.g. "we", "my").

Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").

Avoid calls to action (e.g. "Check it out!").

Avoid teasers (e.g. "...and much more!").

Dungeon Crawl

Sites about Linley's Dungeon Crawl, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Dungeon Hack

Sites about Dungeon Hack, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Dweller

The cellphone Java roguelike Dweller

Egoboo

Sites about Egoboo, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Fatal Labyrinth

Sites about Fatal Labyrinth, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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- Briefly summarize existing content (25 words or less).
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GearHead

Roguelike game GearHead by Joseph Hewitt

Hack

Sites about Hack, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Direct submissions concerning the Hack descendent NetHack to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: NetHack instead. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

Use the site's actual title.
The description should resemble existing category entries:
- Briefly summarize existing content (25 words or less).
- Avoid first-person wordings (e.g. "we", "my").
- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
- Avoid calls to action (e.g. "Check it out!").
- Avoid teasers (e.g. "...and much more!").

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JauntTrooper Series

Sites about the JauntTrooper series of games, immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

Use the site's actual title.
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Kharne

Sites about Kharne: The Revelation, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Larn

Sites about Larn, its immediate derivatives (e.g. Ularn), significant ports of either (e.g. iLarn), and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.

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Use the site's actual title.
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- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
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Exploring The Caverns of Larn (Larn) offers straightforward gameplay, small yet dense dungeon levels, and a single quest to produce an entertaining game for those new to roguelikes. Derivative games include Ultra-Larn (Ularn) and its descendants, iLarn and Ularn 1.5. Members of this game family generally are open source, and working versions exist for most computing platforms.

Legend of Saladir

Sites about Legend of Saladir, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

Use the site's actual title.
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- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
- Avoid calls to action (e.g. "Check it out!").
- Avoid teasers (e.g. "...and much more!").

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Moria

Sites about Moria, its immediate derivatives (e.g. Umoria), significant ports of either (e.g. kMoria), and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.

Direct submissions concerning the Moria descendant The Pits of Angband (Angband) to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: Angband instead.

Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

Use the site's actual title.
The description should resemble existing category entries:
- Briefly summarize existing content (25 words or less).
- Avoid first-person wordings (e.g. "we", "my").
- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
- Avoid calls to action (e.g. "Check it out!").
- Avoid teasers (e.g. "...and much more!").

The Dungeons of Moria (Moria) offers gamers a single-player, infinite dungeon simulation. Apart from name and final adversary (a Balrog), most Moria titles borrow lightly from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Popular derivative games include Imoria and UNIX Moria (Umoria) and its descendants, Pmoria, Morgul, and kMoria. Generally, members of this game family are open source, and working versions exist for most computing platforms.
The Pits of Angband (Angband), first branched from Moria, has grown over the years to become its own family of roguelikes. Information regarding Angband resides in the Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: Angband.

NetHack

All sites dealing primarily with NetHack can be submitted to this category.

Following these guidelines will allow us to add your site to the directory as quickly as possible.

Use your site's actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We're the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!)
Avoid using terms such as much more, lots, more, or anything else that would indicate that there is more to your site than what is in the description. Take the time to list out what the site has instead of using these terms.
Your description should resemble descriptions of sites already listed in the category.

NetHack is a dungeon adventuring game. It features complex ASCII graphics and more depth and detail than similar games. Diablo is a good example of a game which owes a lot to NetHack - it is basically a much-simplified version of NetHack with fancy graphics.

News and Reviews

All sites dealing primarily with news and reviews for more than one Rogue-like game or Rogue-like games that do not have their own category can be submitted to this category.

Following these guidelines will allow us to add your site to the directory as quickly as possible.

Use your site's actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We're the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!)
Avoid using terms such as much more, lots, more, or anything else that would indicate that there is more to your site than what is in the description. Take the time to list out what the site has instead of using these terms.
Your description should resemble descriptions of sites already listed in the category.

Contains sites whose main focus are to provide information, news, reviews, previews, articles, and fora about Rogue-like games. Some may also have downloads for Rogue-like games.

Omega

Sites about Omega, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion.

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Use the site's actual title.
The description should resemble existing category entries:
- Briefly summarize existing content (25 words or less).
- Avoid first-person wordings (e.g. "we", "my").
- Avoid site marketing (e.g. "Most awesome site ever!").
- Avoid calls to action (e.g. "Check it out!").
- Avoid teasers (e.g. "...and much more!").

"Omega is a roguelike game originally written by Laurence Brothers in the late 80s. It was the first roguelike game with a large 'countryside', plot development, quotable quotes, and a sense of humor."
- SourceForge.Net: Omega: the Roguelike

Ragnarok

Sites about Ragnarok (aka Valhalla), its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Sites for the MMORPG Ragnarok Online should be submitted to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Massive Multiplayer Online: Ragnarok Online. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Rogue

Sites about Rogue, immediate derivatives of Rogue (e.g., URogue), significant ports (e.g., iRogue) of either, or relevant gameplay strategies constitute the class of submissions acceptable for inclusion.

Direct reviews of Rogue or its derivatives to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: Rogue: Reviews and Previews instead.

Submit sites primarily offering walkthroughs, spoilers, or cheats for Rogue or its derivatives to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: Rogue: Cheats and Hints instead.

Recommend versions of Rogue or its derivatives playable online to Games: Video Games: Roleplaying: Rogue-like: Rogue: Browser Based instead.

Following these guidelines will allow us to add your site to the directory as quickly as possible.

Use your site's actual title.
Create a brief description, under 25 words, listing the current content of your site (not the future content).
Do not use first person verbiage (we, our, us).
Do not use marketing verbiage. (We're the best!, Most awesome site, Check it Out!)
Avoid using terms such as much more, lots, more, or anything else that would indicate that there is more to your site than what is in the description. Take the time to list out what the site has instead of using these terms.
Your description should resemble descriptions of sites already listed in the category.

Rogue inspired an entire genre of games collectively known as roguelikes, and many credit it as providing the foundation upon which all later screen-oriented roleplaying games were built. First distributed in 1980, Rogue and its derivates continue to attract gamers and developers alike.
Players face the basic task of guiding a single character through the Dungeons of Doom in a quest to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. Although the monsters and obstacles which inhabit the Dungeons vary by version, Rogue and its descendants favor pared-down gameplay over bewlidering and expansive options that have frequently come to characterize later roguelikes.
Popular derivatives include Ultimate Rogue (URogue), Super Rogue (SRogue), and Advanced Rogue (ARogue). Developers have ported the original to a wide array of platforms; notable ports include iRogue, KRogue, and zRogue. A rarity for games of this genre, Rogue has even seen commercial distribution.

Slayer

Sites about Slayer, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Sword of Fargoal

Sites about Sword of Fargoal, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Telengard

Sites about Telengard, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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Tyrant

Sites about Tyrant, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

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UnReal World

Sites about UnReal World, its immediate derivatives, significant ports of either, and relevant gaming strategies or reviews constitute the class of submissions suitable for inclusion. Adherence to the following guidelines will hasten the acceptance of submissions:

Use the site's actual title.
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