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(4) permadeath — partially: while in a roguelike you typically you could not reload your older savefile when something bad happens, and start a new game if defeated, Valhalla featured an “expert mode” with very resticted saving, and a “beginner mode” where you could create a reloadable save every 200 turns. Still, the game was balanced for permadeath.

Several recently released games have rekindled the old discussions on the meaning of the word “roguelike”. This post is an attempt to document how the meaning of this term has changed historically.

In 2002 DRL (“Doom the Roguelike”) was originally released. It was quite clear from the name what it was: it was a roguelike (character display, turn-based, randomly generated) where your primary weapons were guns, and you fought demons from Doom.

Reviewers did recognize it as a great game, and that it required a new classification — the light story, focus on combat, and randomness made it quite different from typical RPGs. If they recognized that these traits were taken directly from roguelikes, “action roguelike” would probably mean a game similar to Diablo nowadays; however, they did not, so the new genre was called “action RPG”.

Roguelikes have evolved separately from mainstream video games: while mainstream games focused on features that sell well, roguelikes were made by skilled programmers who wanted to create games interesting for themselves, and share them with other people with similar tastes. The term was never defined well, with every player using it according to their own feelings; for this reason, I have decided to make this quite subjective. Also, much of the emphasis is put on the community — since the roguelikes tend to be ignored by mainstream media, the fans gathered in online communities, which have been crucial for the evolution of the genre.

In 1997, Diablo was released. If you compare Diablo to Angband, the two games are obviously very similar. In fact, the developers originally wanted to create a turn-based roguelike; however, Real-Time Strategy was a hot new genre back then, and they have decided to make it a roguelike/RTS hybrid. Diablo featured great graphics. I do not know the exact reasons why the developers have decided to drop permadeath, but this was common in commercial roguelike-inspired games back then.

Castle of the Winds, a shareware game published in 1993. It was quite popular. if somebody remembered they played some roguelike in the 90’s, the answer was usually Castle of the Winds.

It had some weird conventions, like you could press the ‘!’ key to see all your potions (this was weird for me, but for roguelike fans it should be obvious — ‘!’ looks like a bottle, and was a typical potion symbol in ASCII roguelikes). I wanted to create my own game like Valhalla. Many minor roguelikes have been created around that time, such as Alphaman, a 1995 game set in the post-apocalyptic future when Donald Trump became the president. The Roguelike FAQ also includes Crossfire which probably would not be called a roguelike now, although I guess that the definition is loosened for multiplayer games.

Soon I have started participating a bit in the roguelike communities, for example here I have created a list of features which are typical to roguelikes, but are rare in other games. It was noticed that my list was slanted towards “hacklikes”; I am not a fan of Nethack itself, but a big fan of ADOM and Valhalla. People recognized that roguelikes are difficult to define. Some games started to appear which were a bit difficult to classify: Decker is a cyberpunk game that I did not consider a roguelike because it had completely different tactics.

Somewhere around 1998 one of my school friends has found an Angband variant called GSNband. He has shared it with our group of friends, and quite a lot of us loved it too! We also started creating our own roguelike. Reading about GSNband, I have found that it is classified as a “roguelike”, and learned about the existence of other roguelikes. By then, a new major roguelike has emerged, named ADOM. It looked interesting, but its “simple character graphics” initially put it off. Eventually, I tried, and it was definitely worth it! I played it like an RPG as first (by copying the save files), but eventually switched to the correct, permadeath way.

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Mission Thunderbolt, developed in 1986 on mainframe computers, and released commercially for Windows and Mac in 1992. I have played it around 2010 and it was a really great roguelike, with quite good graphics for its time, great innovative ideas, and optional permadeath. It is sad how unknown this game is.

I have not yet been in any online communities when the term “roguelike” has been coined; luckily, Santiago Zapata has written a blogpost about this. The term was invented by the Usenet community to group several games which they thought they were similar; these games were (1) free (2) dungeon crawl games (3) using ‘character display’ (in-game entities represented by letters and other characters). Gameplay features such as (4) permadeath or (5) randomness were not considered. Roguelikes at that time included Rogue, Moria, NetHack, Angband, and several other minor games.

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