List of roguelikes

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 genre's namesake, Rogue. Due to the large number of variations on this concept, roguelikes are normally classified as either being a classical roguelike with qualities that meet the "Berlin Interpretation" for roguelikes, or as hybrid roguelikes, roguelike-likes, roguelites, or procedural death labyrinths, which possess some but not all of these qualities.

Legend

Video game platforms

AMI Commodore Amiga APPII Apple II ATR Atari 8-bit family BEOS BeOS C64 Commodore 64 CROSS Cross-platform DC Dreamcast DEC DEC Professional DOS DOS / MS-DOS DROI Android DS Nintendo DS GB Game Boy GBA Game Boy Advance GBC Game Boy Color GEN Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive GG Sega Game Gear INT Intellivision iOS iOS LIN Linux MAC Macintosh / Mac OS MSX MSX OS2 OS/2 OSX OS X N64 Nintendo 64 P2000 Philips P2000 PC88 NEC PC-8801 PC98 NEC PC-9801 PET Commodore PET PS1 PlayStation / PSone PS2 PlayStation 2 PSP PlayStation Portable SAT Sega Saturn SMS Sega Master System SNES Super NES / Super Famicom TRS80 TRS-80 VIC20 Commodore VIC-20 VITA PlayStation Vita Wii Wii WIN Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 WIN3X Windows 3.x WIN9X Windows 9x WS WonderSwan XBLA Xbox Live Arcade

Roguelikes

The following is a list of roguelike games that are generally considered to hold true to the Berlin Interpretation of a "roguelike".

First	Last	Title	Developer	Setting	Platform	Notes
1975		pedit5	Rusty Rutherford	Fantasy	PLATO	Early dungeon crawler with several key-features of future roguelikes, such as permadeath, turn-based simple combat, top-down view and exploration of a typical corridors/rooms-based dungeon.
1975	1985	dnd	Gary Whisenhunt, Ray Wood	Fantasy	PLATO	Similar to pedit5 with more levels to explore.
1978		Beneath Apple Manor	Don Worth	Fantasy	APPII	One of the earliest commercial Apple II games. It predates Rogue, and was much simpler, but supported a low resolution graphical display in addition to the text version. Was ported to the IBM PC in 1983.[1]
1979		DUNGEON	Brian Sawyer	Fantasy	PET	Published in Cursor issue 15[2][3][4][5]
1980		Rogue	Michael Toy, others	Fantasy	CROSS	Inspired the genre as a whole.
1982		Telengard	Daniel Lawrence	Fantasy	APPII, ATR, C64, TRS80	Some roguelike features. Play is in real time. Levels are not randomly generated.
1982		Sword of Fargoal	Jeff McCord	Fantasy	C64, PET, VIC20	Real time action gameplay. Based on Gammaquest II by the same author.
1982		Hack	Jay Fenlason, Andries Brouwer, others	Fantasy	CROSS	Later became the basis for NetHack.
1982		Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain	Mattel Electronics	Fantasy	INT
1983		Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin	Mattel Electronics	Fantasy	INT
1983	1999	Moria	Robert Alan Koeneke & Jimmey Wayne Todd	Fantasy	CROSS	Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings. Later port (Umoria) became the basis of Angband. Influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard's Diablo.[6]
1985	1987	Dungeon of Doom, The	John Raymonds	Fantasy	MAC	Released commercially in 1987 as The Dungeon Revealed.
1985		Island of Kesmai	John Taylor, Kelton Flinn	Fantasy	CROSS	Early CompuServe commercial multiplayer game
1986	1987	Larn	Noah Morgan, Phil Cordier	Fantasy	CROSS	Original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection.[7]
1987	2015	NetHack	The NetHack DevTeam	Fantasy	CROSS	Descendant of Hack. Has spawned many large and complex variant trees.
1987	2010	Omega	Laurence Brothers	Fantasy	CROSS	Features a rich, persistent and quirky world and multiple endings.
1987	1992	Scarab of Ra	Rick Holzgrafe	Modern, Fantasy	MAC	Turn-based Roguelike played in first-person 3D.
1987		Tower of Doom (Intellivision game)	INTV Corporation	Fantasy	INT
1988		Moraff's Revenge	Steve Moraff	Fantasy	DOS	One of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective role-playing video games.
1989		Castle of the Winds	SaadaSoft	Fantasy	WIN3X
1990		Dragon Crystal	Sega	Fantasy	GG, SMS
1990	2016	Angband	Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand	Fantasy	CROSS	Based heavily on The Silmarillion.
1991		Cave Noire	Konami	Fantasy	GB	Simplistic dungeon crawler with random room placement, loot and monsters.
1991		Fatal Labyrinth	Sega	Fantasy	GEN
1991		Moraff's World	Steve Moraff	Fantasy	DOS	Sequel to Moraff's Revenge.
1992		Mission Thunderbolt	Dave Scheifler, John Calhoun	Futuristic	DEC, MAC, WIN
1992	1995	Ragnarok	Norsehelm	Fantasy	DOS
1992	2015	UnReal World	Sami Maaranen	Wilderness survival, Historical	DOS, LIN, OSX, WIN	Graphical roguelike set in the far north during the late Iron-Age. It is open-ended and emphasizes survival in the harsh ancient wilderness.
1993		Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon	Chunsoft	Fantasy	SNES	The first game in Chunsoft's popular Mystery Dungeon series in Japan, inspired by Rogue's gameplay.
1993		Dungeons of the Unforgiven	Steve Moraff	Fantasy	DOS	The final of the series that began with Moraff's Revenge and continued with Moraff's World.
1993		Dungeon Hack	DreamForge	Fantasy	DOS	Features a pseudo-3D game screen based on SSI's Eye of the Beholder series. It uses the rules mechanics of AD&D 2nd Edition.
1994	2015	Ancient Domains of Mystery	Thomas Biskup	Fantasy	AMI, BeOS, DOS, LIN, OS2, OSX, WIN
1994	2012	World of Arch	I.A. Jääskeläinen	Fantasy	AMI, WIN
1994		Zangband	Topi Ylinen	Fantasy	CROSS	Angband variant based on Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels
1995		The Sorcerer's Cave	Peter Donnelly/Skookum	Fantasy	WIN	Based on Donnelly's "roguelike" boardgames, The Sorcerer's Cave (1978) and Mystic Wood published by Avalon Hill in 1980
1995		Alphaman	Jeffrey R. Olson	Post-apocalypse, Sci-fi	DOS	Features "elaborate use of colors and the extended IBM character set"
1995	2008	Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer	Chunsoft	Fantasy	DS, GB, SNES
1997	1999	Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon	Square	Fantasy	PS1, WS
1997	2005	Linley's Dungeon Crawl	Linley Henzell	Fantasy	CROSS
1997	2006	Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack – Extended Magic	The Slash'EM development team	Fantasy	CROSS	A variant of NetHack with extra features
1998	2008	Baroque	Sting	Fantasy	PS1, PS2, SAT, Wii
1998	2008	Tales (or Troubles) of Middle Earth	DarkGod, others	Fantasy	CROSS	Based on the PernBand variant of Angband, and thus on The Lord of the Rings. Author no longer maintains it, but a separate maintenance branch repository exists.[8]
1998	1999	Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon	Compile	Fantasy	PS1, SAT	PlayStation version is an enhanced port from the Saturn original with the added subtitle Ketteiban.
1998	1999	Chocobo's Dungeon 2	Square	Fantasy	PS1	Sequel to Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon.
1998	2000	Azure Dreams	Konami	Fantasy	GBC, PS1
1998		Sorvice	Altron	Fantasy	SAT
1999	2001	Torneko: The Last Hope	Chunsoft	Fantasy	GBA, PS1	Sequel to Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon.
2000	2001	Dark Cloud	Level-5	Fantasy	PS2, PS4	Also included a city-building aspect, making it not purely a roguelike, though dungeons did include a roguelike engine.
2000	2001	Falcon's Eye	Jaakko Peltonen	Fantasy	CROSS	Graphical update to NetHack.
2000		Shiren the Wanderer 2	Chunsoft	Fantasy	N64
2001		TomeNET	C. Blue, Mikael, others	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, WIN	In addition to traditional roguelike features - rng level generation, permadeath, dynamic hack'n'slash experience and freedom of actions, TomeNET has MMORPG features - real-time gameplay, PvE in group, PvP, economy system (players shops and housing) and etc.
2001		Shiren the Wanderer GB2	Chunsoft	Fantasy	GBC
2002	2003	Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2	Level-5	Fantasy	PS2, PS4	Much like its predecessor, Dark Cloud, it wasn't a pure roguelike, including world-building aspects, though dungeons remained roguelike.
2002	2013	Doom, the Roguelike	Kornel Kisielewicz	Futuristic, Fantasy	LIN, WIN	Based on the Doom series by id Software.
2003	2015	Dragonslayer	Walter Pullen	Fantasy	WIN	3D classic Roguelike played in first person perspective, implemented in and distributed with the Daedalus maze generation software.[9]
2004		TwinBee	Konami	Fantasy	Mobile Phone	Themed by TwinBee Universe.
2004		Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon, The	Arika, Chunsoft	Fantasy	PS2	Sequel to The Blue Crystal Rod for SNES.
2005		Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team[10]	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantasy	DS
2005		Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantasy	GBA
2005	2006	Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal	Konami	Fantasy	DS	Semi-sequel to Azure Dreams.
2006		Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja	Success	Fantasy	DS
2006	2013	Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup	Community	Fantasy	CROSS (open source)	Fork of Linley's Dungeon Crawl
2006	2016	Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress	Tarn Adams	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, WIN
2006		Dragon Quest: Shonen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon	cavia	Fantasy	PS2	Spin-off of Dragon Quest VIII.
2007		Rogue Hearts Dungeon	Compile Heart	Fantasy	PS2
2007		Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantasy	DS
2007		Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantasy	DS
2007	2008	Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns	Ninja Studio	Fantasy	DS	Sequel to Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
2008		Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon	Square Enix	Fantasy	Wii	[11]
2008	2010	Shiren the Wanderer	Chunsoft	Fantasy	PSP, Wii	3rd game in the series.[12]
2009		Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantasy	DS	[13]
2009	2012	Brogue	Brian Walker	Fantasy	LIN, MAC, WIN
2010		100 Rogues	Dinofarm Games	Fantasy	iOS
2010		Smart Kobold	Jeff Lait	Fantasy	WIN, Linux	A "seven-day roguelike" that was selected for demonstration at IndieCade, E3 2010. It attempts to implement a high level of artificial intelligence for a single type of enemy.[14]
2010		Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman	Nippon Ichi Software	Fantasy	PSP	[15]
2011		Deadly Dungeons	CodeZombie Games	Fantasy	DROI	3D Dungeon exploration with randomly generated floors, items, and creatures. Movement is tile-based. First-person roguelike [16] gameplay similar to Dungeon Hack.
2011		Dungeons of Dredmor	Gaslamp Games	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, WIN	Tile-based movement with rudimentary graphics and a sense of humour.[17]
2011		Tales of Maj'Eyal	Nicolas ‘DarkGod’ Casalini	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, WIN	Graphical rewrite of the author's earlier ToME (video game). Turn-based role-playing game based on its own fantasy universe. Players unlock most classes, story threads are available, and elements have been taken from MMOs to significantly change the combat.
2012	2015	Ultima Ratio Regum	Mark R Johnson	Historical	WIN	Non-combat-focused roguelike about exploring and deciphering an intellectual conspiracy to rewrite history; set in the Renaissance/Scientific Revolution.
2013		Sword of the Stars: The Pit	Kerberos Productions	Sci-fi	WIN	Turn-based, 2D Dungeon crawl, RPG based in the Sword of the Stars universe. Players are able to collect equipment, weapons, armor, and ingredients for crafting. Explore 30 levels and death is permanent.
2013		WazHack	Warwick "Waz" Allison	Fantasy	DROI, IOS, LIN, OSX, WIN	Turn-based, 2D side-scrolling Dungeon crawl, RPG. Players are able to collect equipment, weapons, armor, potions, and scrolls while combating enemies and starvation. Fights and levels are random and death is permanent.
2013		The Guided Fate Paradox	Nippon Ichi Software	Fantasy	PS3
2013		99 Levels to Hell	Zaxis Games	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, WIN	Starting off as a Wizzard with a shotgun combat your way up the 99 levels of Hell
2013		Wizards Encounters	Alderan gaming	Fantasy	DROI	Turn-based role-playing game based on the Wizards universe.
2014	2016	Slash'EM Extended	Amy Bluescreenofdeath	Fantasy	WIN	A variant of Slash'EM, which is a variant of NetHack
2015		Dragon Fin Soup	Grimm Bros	Fantasy	LIN, OSX, PS3, PS4, PSV, WIN
2015	2016	Cogmind	Josh Ge	Sci-fi	WIN

Hybrid roguelikes

These are games that feature elements of roguelike games but not necessarily all of the features as defined by the Berlin Interpretation. Terms like "hybrid roguelike", "roguelike-like", "rogue-lite", and "procedural death labyrinth" are used to distinguish them from traditional roguelike games. In most cases, hybrids feature common elements like procedural level generation, randomized item and adversary placement, and permadeath.

First	Last	Title	Developer	Setting	Platform	Notes
1991		ToeJam & Earl	Johnson Voorsanger Productions	Fantasy	GEN	2D top-down real-time exploration of a world made of randomly generated floors. Features randomized items and permanent death (although it has multiple lives).
1996		Diablo	Blizzard North	Fantasy	WIN, MAC, PS1	Action role-playing hack and slash.
2001	2011	Lost Labyrinth	Lost Labyrinth	Fantasy	WIN, LIN	Similar to "The Legend of Zelda in gameplay, graphics and sound; plays to its conclusion in 10–40 minutes.
2002	2004	Strange Adventures In Infinite Space	Digital Eel	Space science fiction	WIN, MAC, PALM, PPC	Random universe generation; turn-based starmap exploration; pausable real time combat. Full graphics, sound and music; plays to completion in 20 minutes or less.
2005	2014	Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space	Digital Eel	Space science fiction	WIN, MAC, LIN, iOS, DROI, NOOK	Random universe generation; turn-based starmap exploration; pausable real time combat. Full graphics (OpenGL), sound and music; sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space; plays to its conclusion in less than 30 minutes.
2009	2012	Spelunky	Derek Yu, Andy Hull	Fantasy	WIN (2009), XBLA (2012)	2D action-adventure platformer without save points that has four increasingly difficult areas with exclusive features that are divided into multiple randomly generated caves of which each one might contain a further unique secret.
2011		The Binding of Isaac	Edmund McMillen, Florian Himsl	Surrealistic, horror	WIN, LIN, OSX	2D Dungeon exploration Top-down shooter without save points inspired by The Legend of Zelda, but with semi-randomly accessed floors with exclusive features that have randomly generated rooms of various types potentially including random items.
2012		FTL: Faster Than Light	Subset Games	Space science fiction	WIN, LIN, OSX	2D real-time strategy styled after space travel. Players move from system to system avoiding a trailing horde of enemies as they participate in side-quests, with the ultimate goal of entering the last area.
2013		Don't Starve	Klei Entertainment	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN	2D action-adventure. Players are able to harvest plants, build traps to catch animals and craft items. Fights and levels are random and death is permanent.[18]
2013		Rogue Legacy	Cellar Door Games	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN, PS3, PS4	2D side-scrolling platformer, action-adventure. Players are able to collect gold, food and potions while combating enemies. Fights are random. Each character has its own unique abilities. Characters level up and change every time player dies.
2013		Risk of Rain	Hopoo Games	Sci-fi action	WIN	2D side-scrolling action platformer; a single play through goes through six levels that are randomly selected from pre-generated layouts but with randomized object placement, and the game's difficulty increases based on how long the player remains alive.
2013		Not the Robots	2DArray	Sci-fi action	WIN
2013	2015	TowerClimb	Davioware & Quazi	Fantasy action	WIN	An unforgiving proceedurally generated platformer, in which players must climb/jump/fly and swim up through increasingly difficult levels. The game is divided into multiple sections each with their own unique theme and challenges.[19][20]
2013		99 Levels to Hell	ZaxisGames	Fantasy action	WIN	2D side-scrolling action game[21]
2013		Delver	Priority Interrupt	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN, DROI	Randomly generated first person roguelike.
2014		Tower of Guns	Terrible Posture Games	Science fiction	WIN	Single player FPS with randomly generated levels.[22]
2014		Crypt of the Necrodancer	Brace Yourself Games	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN	Dungeon exploration combined with a rhythm game beat matching mechanic
2014		Invisible, Inc.	Klei Entertainment	Espionage	WIN, OSX, LIN	A tactical turn-based strategy RPG with a focus on stealth. The player must maneuver agents through several procedurally generated levels in a limited amount of in-game time.
2014		TinyKeep	Phigames	Fantasy	WIN	TinyKeep, a top-down procedurally generated dungeon escape game with permadeath. Master the frantic physics-based combat, lure enemies into traps or make them fight each other for dominance.
2014		Dungeon of the Endless	Amplitude Studios	Science fiction	WIN, OSX	A hybrid roguelike / tower defense game, where the player must guide heroes through randomly generated, under-powered facilities to move a crystal across the map.
2014		The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth	Nicalis	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN, PS4, VITA, WIIU, New3DS, XOne	An expanded remake of The Binding of Isaac
2014		Road Not Taken	Spry Fox	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, PS4	A puzzle-roguelike hybrid, where the player must work out the functions of items to solve puzzles and rescue characters from random generated levels.
2015		Hand of Fate	Defiant Development	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN, PS4, VITA, XOne	A collectable-card game-based rogue-like, where the game's dungeons and encounters are drawn from a customized deck of cards, while combat takes place in an action/fighter-based mini-game.
2015		Captain Forever Remix	Pixelsaurus Games	Science fiction	WIN	Multidirectional shooter, where the player builds up a spaceship from modules of defeated enemies.
2015		Skyshine BEDLAM	Skyshine Games	Post-apocalyptic	WIN	BEDLAM is a strategic rogue-like game with tactical combat set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
2015	2016	Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars	Digital Eel	Space science fiction	LIN, OSX, WIN	Random universe generation; turn-based starmap exploration; pausable real time combat. 3D graphics, full sound and music; sequel to Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space; plays to completion in 20–45 minutes.
2016		Darkest Dungeon	Red Hook Studios	Fantasy	WIN, OSX, LIN, PS4, VITA	A gothic, role-playing, dungeon-crawl-based game centered around having the player make tough decisions in dire situation, goaded into their decisions with difficult enemies, limited resources, and an innovative "Affliction System".
2016		Enter the Gungeon	Dodge Roll	Science fiction	WIN, OSX, LIN, PS4	A randomized-dungeon exploration game featuring top-down-based bullet hell combat.
2016		FORCED Showdown	BetaDwarf	Fantasy, science fiction	WIN, OSX, LIN	A 3D randomized-arena game with top-down-based bullet hell action-brawler combat and collectible card role-playing elements.

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2. "DUNGEON – Search for gold in the ancient ruins". Video of Brian Sawyer's DUNGEON.
3. Sawyer, Brian (1981). "DUNGEON". In Jeffries, Ron. PET Fun and Games. McGraw-Hill. p. 75. ISBN 0-931988-70-5.
4. "Dungeon". CBM Software-Database entry for Dungeon.
5. "Game 85: Dungeon (1979)". CRPG Addict review of DUNGEON.
6. Pitts, Russ (2006-06-06). "Secret Sauce: The Rise of Blizzard". The Escapist. Retrieved 2007-12-24. [The idea for Diablo] was modified over and over until it solidified when [Dave Brevik] was in college and got hooked on … Moria/Angband.
7. src/games/larn/. NetBSD CVS Repositories. Accessed January 18, 2008.
8. "ToME 2.3.x Maintenance Branch".
9. Pullen, Walter. "Daedalus: Dragonslayer".
10. Provo, Frank (Sep 21, 2006). "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team Review". Gamespot. Retrieved 2010-08-03. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has more in common with a litany of dungeon hacks than it does with any of Nintendo's traditional Pokémon role-playing games.
11. Hatfield, Daemon (July 1, 2008). "Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon Review". IGN. Retrieved 2010-08-14. Mystery Dungeon and "roguelike" games make up a niche genre that spans the difficulty range from the unforgiving Shiren the Wanderer to the more breezy Pokemon [sic] Mystery Dungeon titles.
12. Goergen, Andy (March 4, 2010). "Shiren the Wanderer". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved 2010-08-14. The series of Mystery Dungeon games, of which the original Shiren on SNES is a founding member, are referred to as roguelikes amongst their fans, a reference which dates back to an early 1980s computer game called Rogue.
13. Bailey, Kat (2009-09-06). "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky Preview". 1UP. Retrieved 2010-08-14. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is the latest iteration of Nintendo's cuddly take on the roguelike genre.
14. Keith Stuart inverviewing Sam Roberts (23 June 2010). "Tech Weekly: E3 – Kinect, 3DS and the best of the indies". Tech Weekly. 24.50 minutes in. guardian.co.uk.
15. "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2010-12-26. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
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18. Sliva, Marty (2013-05-01). "Don't Starve Review". IGN. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
19. Smith, Adam (2013-03-27). "Falling From The Top Of The World: TowerClimb". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
20. Quazi and Davioware, Developer (2015-09-22). "TowerClimb Steam page". Steam. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
21. Skyes, Tom (2013-03-06). "99 Levels to Hell: a Spelunky-like roguelike-like with an emphasis on, like, blood and guns". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
22. Groen, Andrew (June 13, 2013). "The disaster of 38 Studios scarred a designer and birthed the randomly generated FPS, Tower of Guns". The Penny Arcade Report. Penny Arcade. Retrieved April 8, 2014.