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by every 565 days ago
NetHack is alive, well and possibly a bit over documented:

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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chongli 565 days ago
Yes and still under active development [1]! We also just finished the 2024 November NetHack Tournament (TNNT) [2]! I played in the tournament for the first time this year. I had one near-win with a very challenging Monk (I was doing a bunch of conducts [3]) who unfortunately died to the infamous Wizard of Yendor (Rodney as we call him). I also had a winning run with a Wizard which unfortunately finished a few hours after the deadline at the end of the tournament, so sadly that one didn't count!

Next year I hope to have a bit more time to play so that I can record a win in regulation time!

[1] https://github.com/nethack/nethack

[2] https://tnnt.org

[3] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Conduct

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rgreekguy 565 days ago
Angband should still be under development, too.

A new one I was recommended the other day: UnEpic World. It's also on Steam and itch.io, started development in 1992! By Fins!

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card_zero 565 days ago
I guess you mean UnReal World (and Finns).

I see Errka has recently released "Ancient Savo", which looks somewhat like a rewrite of URW:

https://enormous-elk.itch.io/ancient-savo

Here he is celebrating the release.

https://www.enormouselk.com/sites/default/files/styles/w730/...

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rgreekguy 564 days ago
Yes, sorry for messing up the name. I have no clue about the new game, I saw it in their page, but I only played a bit of UnReal World.
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debo_ 565 days ago
You can play the entire family of angband games at https://angband.live

And yes, mainline angband is still under active development. There are a couple of very popular variants too (frogcomposband and sil-q.)

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every 565 days ago
I do all of my NetHack gaming via ssh to Hardfought[1]. They offer the current vanilla and previous ones all the way back to 1.3d. However they specialize in variants. My favorite variant is xNetHack[2]...

[1] https://www.hardfought.org/ [2] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/XNetHack

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anthk 565 days ago
I play Slash'em daily.
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ForOldHack 565 days ago
I wish they had earlier versions.
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tolciho 565 days ago
https://britzl.github.io/roguearchive/ collects a bunch of roguelike (or -lite?) links.
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every 565 days ago
Perhaps something like this:

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Game_history

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