ASCIIDreams Roguelike of the Year 2010 – Results
The results are in! going against all laws, conventions and best-practices of roguelike development, DarkGod rose and took the grand-prize for himself and the community around ToME-4. Congratulations!
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Dwarf Fortress and DoomRL continue holding strong into the hearts of the roguelikers.
Thanks to Mr. Doull @ ASCIIDreams for keeping the tradition.
There were 167 entries and 1675 votes. This is the top ten for 2010, congratulations all!
Check this article for the full ranking
| Rank | Roguelike | Votes | % |
| 1 | ToME 4.0.0 | 384 | 22,9% |
| 2 | Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup | 294 | 17,6% |
| 3 | Dwarf Fortress | 171 | 10,2% |
| 4 | DoomRL | 95 | 5,7% |
| 5 | Rogue Survivor | 69 | 4,1% |
| 6 | Angband | 44 | 2,6% |
| 7 | Goblin Camp | 34 | 2,0% |
| 7 | UnNetHack | 34 | 2,0% |
| 9 | Brogue | 32 | 1,9% |
| 10 | POWDER | 31 | 1,9% |
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:58 am
Wow, ToME 4 is a runaway success. I’ve yet to give it a serious try, but I really dig the web based reporting of player histories / activity.
Also… very glad to see Brogue sneak into the top 10. Must’ve been wearing a +2 Ring of Stealth. : )
January 4th, 2011 at 1:11 am
I’m a little surprised 100 Rogues didn’t rank higher, and I would have really been interested to see Desktop Dungeons in the running, but it didn’t meet the qualification criteria…
January 4th, 2011 at 1:40 am
@ Andrew: I think this is because it is iOS only. Don’t know if the typical player of 100 Rogues knows about roguelikes and its community.
January 4th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Andrew: What are the qualification criteria?
January 4th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
it the tiled version ever gets released there’s no telling how high DoomRL could rise
January 6th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
@ Ido: The criteria were described here: http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2010/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html
January 7th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
IMO a tiled version doesn’t get you as much customers as a good ASCII version (look at brogue). Especially for DoomRL as there is already a beautiful graphical version of Doom out there. :-)
January 7th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
sadly but true, a graphics version will bring much more attention to DoomRL and make it even more of a classic.
A shame Kornel and Derek are too damn lazy to put it up.
January 8th, 2011 at 9:57 am
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