Hello friends! Is there a lemmy community for roguelikes? I am, in this case, looking for a place focused on more traditional roguelikes (DCSS, CCDDA, BROGUE, etc)

If there isn’t one, no worries, send me you’re favorite unknown traditional roguelikes. I’ll tell you mine. It’s called “Empires of Eradia” it’s a more open combat focused RL with a unique twist on permadeath. It’s got great crafting and a strong focus on risk reward.

  • Kresten@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t realize you said ‘roguelikes’ at first 😅 I’m more into roguelites I’ll admit. Is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup a -lite or -like?

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      1 year ago

      The definition isn’t an absolutely hard one, but I think that DCSS would be pretty uncontroversially a roguelike.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike

      See the section on “Berlin Interpretation”, which is one commonly-used set of factors to determine whether something is a roguelike.

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        1 year ago

        I have a love/hate with the Berlin Interpretation. While I certainly prefer my RLs that way, I think some times it gets used to gatekeep excellent RLs kind of on the fringe of the interpretation.

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      1 year ago

      A good way to tell between -lite and -like is that lite you get stronger (ex. Stats increase) between runs while -like only unlocks new content.

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      1 year ago

      No worries at all! While I personally prefer the more traditional RLs, I know that’s not everyone’s thing.

      DCSS is definitely -like. But it’s not terribly hard to grasp and can be an incredibly fun time if you don’t mind failure.