Roguelike of the Year

[Klown]

http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/

Poll is on the right, multiple selections possible.
What did you vote for?

I went with ToME, DCSS, and Pixel Dungeon.

[Hirsch I]

holy mothershitting roguegasm, I did not know there are so many of them. I tried angband and nethack, but the interface seemed to complicated, so I gave up. is there any roguelike with a interface as good as DCSS?

[monty]

holy mothershitting roguegasm, I did not know there are so many of them. I tried angband and nethack, but the interface seemed to complicated, so I gave up. is there any roguelike with a interface as good as DCSS?

Try POWDER. It was my first roguelike and it's a lot of fun. It's simpler than crawl but similar in a lot of ways. It doesn't really have classes, the way your character plays is determined almost completely by what god you worship and what gear you find. It's got a good tutorial as well so it's easy to jump into.

[Klown]

holy mothershitting roguegasm, I did not know there are so many of them. I tried angband and nethack, but the interface seemed to complicated, so I gave up. is there any roguelike with a interface as good as DCSS?

DCSS is really awesome in this area, so I could only recommend Tales of Maj'Eyal(ToME) for a solid interface.

The above vote usually gives a general idea of what is good out of the near-300 roguelikes there.

[Hirsch I]

wow, ToME looks beautiful.

[moocowmoocow]

That list is fuckmongously huge. I'm sad that Caves of Qud got abandoned. It's one of the few games I've played in recent years with a world that felt alive and immersive. Any know any games that have that same feel? Also why is DCSS not winning?

I voted DCSS, Cataclysm and Unreal World.

[Confidence Interval]

I think DCSS really missed out by not using the name Dungeon Penetrator.

[Klown]

1) Tales of Maj'Eyal
2) ADOM
3) Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
4) ADOM II
5) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
6) UnReal World
7) DoomRL
8) Brogue
9) Dungeons of Dredmor
10) Rogue Legacy

Technically Noxico 'won' but it's developer hacked it to victory while the others are expected/more legit.

Out of my personal opinion. ToME is solid all around, free from it's website or $7 on Steam. DoomRL is very beginner friendly, has difficulty levels, it's reasonably short, and blowing a monster away with blood everywhere is awesome. Brogue has a simple, yet awesome Strength-based system, along with the sexiest ASCII graphics around. Dredmor is nice, but you have to pick up tons of stuff off the ground one by one, and it gets slow and tedious.

[moocowmoocow]

Nice summaries I agree. Finally installed ToME4 last weekend and it was a lot of fun. I didn't know what Noxico was... looked it up and regretted it.

[summonbutterfly]

Technically Noxico 'won' but it's developer hacked it to victory while the others are expected/more legit.

What source are you using to back up this claim? As far as I can tell, no where on the blog's post does it say anything about cheating. Your baseless allegation is insulting, not only to the developers of this game but also to the people who honestly voted for it. And what makes you so sure that other games didn't have their votes artificially increased?

It's clear that you don't agree with the game's content, but that does not make it ok to misinform people for your own agenda.

[Hirsch I]

what makes you think we care?

[Grimm]

Calm down there Hirsch I. summonbutterfly, please check your messages.

[Kate]

Here's a list that's not based on a bad (deliberately, I guess) poll, you should play these instead! Four Scepters I remember being neat, also 86856527 is really good.

Also there's a followup post on the Ascii Dreams blog listing the smaller roguelikes that got a noticeable number of votes - this seems like the sort of thing that the poll is actually useful for, and a lot of those are more interesting than the big ones that everyone knows about already anyway. Sil's pretty fun or something.

[Hirsch I]

sorry, that sounded much less angry in my mind.

[Klown]

DCSS only 5th.

[Grimm]

DCSS only 5th.

I know right? And I voted at least twice.

[TehDruid]

If the devs had listened to my suggestion of making a wet t-shirt contestant race, this wouldn't have been the case!!

Tome has that redhead with her nipples poking through her robe on one of the launch screens (which you can sensor in the options, I find that hilarious) and that other weird multi-tentacle chick for those with a tentacle rape fetish. Darkgod knows how to market a game.

[TehDruid]

DCSS only 5th.

I cheated.

ftfy