NetHack is a fork of the 1984 game Hack. This version was first released in 1987, but the developers made NetHack open source, making it easy to get your hands on. That said, NetHack is, unlike most ...

Toss_up() calls breakobj() if the object passes breaktest(). When toss_up was changed to allow for crackable objects, however, the function was not changed to allow for objects that cracked but did ...

At first, it might not seem that Elden Ring Nightreign is a true roguelike title. After all, the game is about beating monsters and monstrous bosses. Thus, that doesn’t really “fit the mold” of what ...

Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has announced that he wants to make another game, and it looks like it'll be a spiritual sequel to the biggest sandbox game in the world. Persson asked his ...

Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have your attention? I would, humbly, submit a new contender for your esteemed judgment. You may or may not find it novel, you ...

Engineer Bartłomiej Kupiau shares a story about one of the strangest bugs he's ever seen, which he encountered while training a neural network to learn how to play the roguelike game NetHack. So ...

Based in Rome, Diana loves all kinds of stories, even though she’s too lazy for most things that aren’t games. She's a freelance writer with a degree in Art History, contributing to GameRant while she ...

I am an author and features writer at Android Police. I primarily writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest smartphone apps and features for Android Police since joining the team in early ...

Go into a retro gaming forum looking for recommendations for a good roguelike after falling in love with Dead Cells, and you may start a fight. The delineation between ‘roguelike’ and ‘roguelite’ ...

Postgame wrapup disrupted. Bad window Id -1 (tty_curs) Generating more information you may report: [00] 0 nethack 0x0000000100ad10d4 NH_panictrace_libc + 548 [01] 1 nethack 0x0000000100ac3e94 NH_abort ...

The rogue-like genre has become so massive over the last decade, arguably due to the success of The Binding of Isaac, that it's beginning to become diluted, so much so that it's even spawned its own ...