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.

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    As a very casual rogue-like enjoyer (failed to ever kill the unicorn in nethack), I regularly enjoy Rogue Fable III. There’s not a ton of story or content, but all the essentials are there.

    It’s a generic dungeon with various themed levels. (No puzzles.) Minor lore through occasionaly messages by the underlord or by reading signs/messages. Get the keys from guardians in side dungeons, then beat the big wizard and take his goblet of immortality.

    You get a race for basic modifiers (no weight limit, but only move horizontally, for example).
    You get a class, which determines your default talent/spell list.
    Then you can get some extra talents/spells regardless of class from books/altars/librarians.

    It’s simple, but I enjoy doing it while listening to other things. No direct challenge modes, but various race/class combos are more difficult than others.

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      Rogue Fable is excellent! Definitely a good intro to the Genre for more casual play.

      Speaking of, if you like more casual RLs, check out The Ground Gives Way or Path of Achra.

      TGGW is a coffee break RL. Meant to be played in small 15-20 min bites. Simple, yet effective.

      PoA is a RL almost entirely built on character theory crafting. The actual RL play can be done with 1-2 buttons most of the time. The character and build creation is… a lot lol. But if you’re into theory crafting and build variety its a great time.

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          StS is glorious. It’s one of the few games I’ve 100% on Steam. Definitely on my top 10 list.

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            Same. I usually don’t play to win (casual player, as I said), but I did put in the effort to get all achievements and beat the heart at ascension 20 at some point.

            The mods in particular give it staying power (and usually make it a bit easier/more absurd for casual play).