Why is Pixel Dungeon so underground? To me, it seems basically like a turn-based souls game. I am playing this game for 2 years now (The OG Pixel Dungeon) and i still find new content, like its infinite.

  • @talEnglish
    3•4 days ago

    Nethack can’t be the oldest, because it was derived from hack.

    I don’t know whether hack or rogue was first, though.

    kagis

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)

    Hack is a 1984 roguelike video game that introduced shops as gameplay elements and expanded available monsters, items, and spells. It later became the basis for NetHack.

    Looks like rogue was first.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

    Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable.

    • RBGEnglish
      2•4 days ago

      Heh, makes sense the first rogue-like was Rogue.