18 Comments

1. stu Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am

   At least a RL won, but its a shame to see so many votes for a game that is not even a roguelike.

2. Slash Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm

   That makes one think, if lots of poeple think a game is a roguelike, doesn’t that make it a roguelike?

3. Thomas Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 pm

   It kind of does, if you think about it hard enough. I’m happy with DF’s position on that list.
   Besides, it does have a roguelike-ish game mode in addition to the one that people actually play.

4. getter77 Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 pm

   Seems like a pretty solid slate of listings to me. I wonder where 2009 will take Elona for example—-will it list again or will that JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Roguelike steal the spotlight if it gets translated and developed further in the same manner that Elona has?

   Gearheard 2 kinda surprises me on account of the game only becoming kinda winnable within the last few days whereas everything else on the list, I think, had at least some modicum of time where people have somehow or another been beating through it.

5. Le Quartier Général » Les nouvelles du QG » Retour vers 2008 : Les tops 2008 ‘alternatifs’ Says:
   January 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 am

   [...] Le classement des meilleurs Roguelike (en) [...]

6. Joseph Hewitt Says:
   January 3rd, 2009 at 7:42 am

   I credit GearHead’s success to the lack of competition in the giant robot roguelike subgenre. That and the fact that the first winnable version was just released probably created a bit of excitement.

7. stu Says:
   January 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm

   Well, since you all think DF is a roguelike, then if civilisation were done in ‘ascii’ it would obviously be a rogue-like as well. I’m just glad to see a really nice mix of games from position 3-10

8. Mr. Horrible at games Says:
   January 4th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

   Would it be possible for you to include links to all the winners? I’m really that lazy.

9. Erathoniel Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 9:39 pm

   I have no qualms calling all the games in the list roguelikes. Dwarf Fortress is just a Roguelike Manager, in so much as it runs many, many games of rogue with less violence (until you get the sick, twisted players’ minds factoring in), and the real time doesn’t really disqualify it. (Doryen, anyone?)

   My only regrets are that I’m no good at Crawl.

   Congrats on DoomRL’s success, Slash!

   About Civilization done in ASCII, if it were, it still wouldn’t be a roguelike. It lacks some of the more important factors of roguelikes, such as individual characters, and insane detail. In DF, next release, there will be hair that can come off (Not the 40d# releases, though) with injuries, and grow back. DF plays like a roguelike, Civilization doesn’t.

   Elona’s actually really, really, really deep. Seriously. It’s easy to lose yourself in the world. Or lose.

   GearHead 2’s been really fun for quite a few versions, so I’m not surprised it got what it got (ok, so I thought it would get higher, but [tangent removed]).

10. Grillkick Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Its all about Incursion bringing it home at 3rd place- while still in alpha! That game has ridiculous depth and the D20 implementation is just sick- I look forward to where it goes in the future.

11. Durandal Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    DoomRL deserved it’s position up on the list, like majorly. And it’s only gonna get better. :)

12. Slash Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Yeah, it’s been hard work, but it has been worth it!

13. Erathoniel Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    @Slash: Pixal isn’t letting me on, for some weird reason.

    Here’s a list of links to the winners, in order. You’ll need to copy-paste them into the address bar.

    http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/

    http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

    http://www.incursion-roguelike.org/

    http://www.doom.chaosforge.org

    http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=about

    http://roguelikefiction.com/

    http://www.gearheadrpg.com/

    http://homepage3.nifty.com/rfish/index_e.html

    http://unangband.blogspot.com/

    http://t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=0

14. erathoniel Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    I just played DoomRL a little yesterday. I mainly play the challenges (Who needs a full fledged armory when you can run around with a pistol or a chainsaw?), and I cheat a lot. But I still have fun. It’s a pretty fun game. Should’ve beaten Dungeon Crawl. Yeah, I’m biased. I’ve never been good at Dungeon Crawl. Either way, I’ve tried to put up a list of links probably three times, and it’s failed to submit comment. Spam filter?

    @Slash: Pixal doesn’t seem to want to let me on.

15. Slash Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    Yeah, I get a LOT of spam comments daily :P

    I hava approved your post, thanks for the links!

    Also, why won’t pixal let you in? it is working here… forgot your password?

16. Erathoniel Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    I’ve tried copy-pasting the password. I’ll try again. Just worked.

17. Vanguard Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 1:16 am

    I think Mage Guild got robbed.

18. Corremn Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Mage Guild will be there next year. Came in 13th or something. Likewise SewerJacks should of been at least first :p
    I think this list represents a good list for the year. I have played everything but Elona so off to download it I go.
    P.s Is there a new developer of DoomRL ;-)
    P.p.s Who ever voted for Rogue Mercenaries out of all those games?

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