It's too hard to keep up to date on all the individual Roguelike pages out there, so I've included a list of my most highly recommended starting points. These are pages to which I turn when I want to find info about specific Roguelike games or Roguelikes in general. Enjoy!
Last checked: 2011-06-20
Site / Page | Maintainer | Last Updated | My Comments |
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General Roguelike Sites | |||
Roguelike Basin | Petri Kuittinen | 2011-06-19 | This wiki is a great starting point. It seems to be keeping up with the latest releases. |
Temple of the Roguelike | Santiago Zapata | 2011-04-08 | Lots of reviews of roguelikes, with particularly in-depth coverage of the annual 7-day roguelike challenges. |
@Play | John Harris | 2011-03-20 | Long series of lengthy articles about roguelikes. Very well written! |
Home of the Underdogs | Sarinee Achavanuntakul | 2005 | HOTU is a super-popular abandonware mecca, even thought it hasn't been updated in years. I've linked to a Roguelike-dedicated page which provides lots of reviews and downloads. |
Roguelikes for Palm OS | i0lanthe | 2006 | You can play Rogue, Larn, and Moria on your Palm Pilot! |
Roguelike Roundup | K. Paul Mallasch | 2004 | One page of quick reviews of all major Roguelikes, with a "favorite Roguelikes" survey. |
rec.games.roguelike.misc | (newsgroup) | (daily) | One of several discussion groups devoted to Roguelike games. Recommended as long as you don't mind wading through chaotic chatter and sporatic spoilers. |
Sites for Specific Roguelikes | |||
The NetHack Index | Dion Nicolaas | 2005 | A ton of NetHack links with verbose descriptions and author names. I liked the format so much I decided to mimic parts of it here! |
Thangorodrim (Angband) | Robert Ruhlmann | 2006 | Robert has an excellent set of Angband pages, and was also the maintainer of the popular Zangband variant for years. |