The Codex of Roguelikes

[Covenant]

Anyone here finish DrashRL or CastlevaniaRL or MegaManRL?

Is DrashRL the 'Escape from Mt Drash' one? I actually finished that recently. For a ten-minute distraction, it's fine, but I wouldn't really recommend it. There's just not much there.

It's a shame Slashie didn't devote a bit more time to some of those efforts; he was very good at nailing style (even if it was primarily through just using a popular game's assets), but the back half of his games and the mechanics under the hood never seemed to really hold up.

 

[buffalo bill]

https://www.t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0

Would b the last official releases. Seems there've been some unofficial updates since then I was unaware of. You're on your own there though.

They seem to be broken. For anybody wondering you can get the 2.3.5 variant from here:
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

says it is 24 gb? kinda sus

 

[buffalo bill]

https://www.t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0

Would b the last official releases. Seems there've been some unofficial updates since then I was unaware of. You're on your own there though.

They seem to be broken. For anybody wondering you can get the 2.3.5 variant from here:
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

Alternatively look on the forums of TOME4 (TOMEs do have something in common - the author) and look in the TOME2 section. You will find this link: http://www.zaimoni.com/zaiband/Angband.ref/ToME/

this one works though

edit: though the one I downloaded (tome-235-win.zip) seems buggy af on my computer. very cool character creation nonetheless

 

[flyingjohn]

https://www.t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0

Would b the last official releases. Seems there've been some unofficial updates since then I was unaware of. You're on your own there though.

They seem to be broken. For anybody wondering you can get the 2.3.5 variant from here:
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

says it is 24 gb? kinda sus

It is a collection of most roguelikes ever released. hence the size. Click show all and then find TOME or whatever you need.

 

[Cologno]

https://www.t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0

Would b the last official releases. Seems there've been some unofficial updates since then I was unaware of. You're on your own there though.

They seem to be broken. For anybody wondering you can get the 2.3.5 variant from here:
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

says it is 24 gb? kinda sus

FWIW, I've been playing stuff out of that archive since 2017...maybe 16? Been awhile, but it's legit, just a buttload of roguelikes and their versions. Have fun.

 

[Dadd]

Richard Upton Pickman is my least favorite unique monster in the entire game. Two turns and you're dead.

 

[buffalo bill]

Richard Upton Pickman is my least favorite unique monster in the entire game. Two turns and you're dead.

should almost always run from ghouls if you can imo

 

[Dadd]

I try to run away when I can, but I wanted to figure out whether there is a way to kill it reliably without spending too many resources. If I recall correctly, it and other ghouls sometimes spawn near the exit, or block the way to the exit. Usually, I can't kill it reliably as the invoker without Azathoth's Gaze and/or a Tommy gun.

 

[xuerebx]

Richard Upton Pickman is my least favorite unique monster in the entire game. Two turns and you're dead.

What's the name of this game please?

 

[Dadd]

Richard Upton Pickman is my least favorite unique monster in the entire game. Two turns and you're dead.

What's the name of this game please?

Infra Arcana
https://sites.google.com/site/infraarcana/home

 

[xuerebx]

Thanks - don't know how I didn't recognise it as I used to play it lol.

 

[Dadd]

The UI changed a bit fairly recently.

 

[Serus]

The UI changed a bit fairly recently.

But it is the official version/tileset, right?

 

[Dadd]

The UI changed a bit fairly recently.

But it is the official version/tileset, right?

The screenshot is of the latest "develop" build for trying new features. The official version available on the website linked above has the same UI and tileset.

 

[Lafrontier]

Any good roguelikes that are completed/abandoned?

Elona is getting a sequel called Elin, but iirc the original is mostly done and only being updated by fans.

Well a prequel, Elin's events take place prior to Elona. There was actually a lot more content planned for Elona - South Tyris was the next area planned to be developed.

It's possible noa might even return to Elona as Elona was never really finished.

 

[Dadd]

Have you guys played Caverns of Xaskazien II? It's great.

 

[Kabas]

Have you guys played Caverns of Xaskazien II? It's great.

It is indeed. Very audio and visually pleasing too.

 

[Serus]

Have you guys played Caverns of Xaskazien II? It's great.

It is indeed. Very audio and visually pleasing too.

What is this heresy: "audio and visually pleasing"? A roguelike?

 

[Kabas]

I mean, CoX II has some nice tilesets.
And there is so many distinct sounds you can instantly tell just by simply listening if there is a smuggler, a spell erasing dark elf or a wind elemental nearby before you even see them. It's kinda like Daggerfall in this regard.

 

[sser]

Blazing through Shiren lately. A shame the game doesn't seem to have much mileage outside of Japan, $60 price tag definitely not helping. Game has a ton of content, though, happy with it so far.

 

[quaesta]

If you're talking about Ultimate ADOM (which I think is pretty much abandoned), that's a completely different, inferior, beast

What a shit game. Much slower, lost the atmosphere of the original, loses the open world aspect, has a skill tree that was meh. Yet it has a soft spot in my heart because I found a way to become super powerful in that game by maximizing defense, made me feel like a proper archlich. Then I took it back because I was unable to leave the floor due to a bug.

 

[Brimruk]

Blazing through Shiren lately. A shame the game doesn't seem to have much mileage outside of Japan, $60 price tag definitely not helping. Game has a ton of content, though, happy with it so far.

If you've played 5, how do you think it compares? If I only played one which one should I go with?

 

[sser]

Blazing through Shiren lately. A shame the game doesn't seem to have much mileage outside of Japan, $60 price tag definitely not helping. Game has a ton of content, though, happy with it so far.

If you've played 5, how do you think it compares? If I only played one which one should I go with?

I played Dice & the DS entry, whichever those are. They're all fairly the same, though 6 is very, very good. If you've played none of them, just spend $5 on Dice and give it a whirl to see if you like the gameplay loop and item-focused style.

 

[Brimruk]

Blazing through Shiren lately. A shame the game doesn't seem to have much mileage outside of Japan, $60 price tag definitely not helping. Game has a ton of content, though, happy with it so far.

If you've played 5, how do you think it compares? If I only played one which one should I go with?

I played Dice & the DS entry, whichever those are. They're all fairly the same, though 6 is very, very good. If you've played none of them, just spend $5 on Dice and give it a whirl to see if you like the gameplay loop and item-focused style.

I've got 5 (Dice) and 6 both, put some hours into 5 but dropped it because the story dungeons kind of drug on (though from what I've read there is are a ton of side-dungeons that are more traditional roguelike style rather than having to babysit a companion through the Towers

 

[sser]

Blazing through Shiren lately. A shame the game doesn't seem to have much mileage outside of Japan, $60 price tag definitely not helping. Game has a ton of content, though, happy with it so far.

If you've played 5, how do you think it compares? If I only played one which one should I go with?

I played Dice & the DS entry, whichever those are. They're all fairly the same, though 6 is very, very good. If you've played none of them, just spend $5 on Dice and give it a whirl to see if you like the gameplay loop and item-focused style.

I've got 5 (Dice) and 6 both, put some hours into 5 but dropped it because the story dungeons kind of drug on (though from what I've read there is are a ton of side-dungeons that are more traditional roguelike style rather than having to babysit a companion through the Towers

In 6 I've only come across 1-companion quest thing where you had to guide a guy. It wasn't difficult, not that it mattered as the content in 6 is very spread out such that you have various challenges and things to do all over the place on any given run. The story dungeon is still functionally the 'tutorial' in 6 – and then the difficulty radically goes up on the 2nd half, as well as a number of the challenge zones. Going through the story dungeon repeatedly is almost constantly unlocking new things, whether you die or survive it.