Roguelikes
| First | Last | Title | Developer | Setting | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Beneath Apple Manor | Don Worth | Fantasy | APPII | One of the earliest commercial Apple II games. It predates Rogue, and was much simpler, but supported a low resolution graphical display in addition to the text version. Was ported to the IBM PC in 1983. | |
| 1978 | DUNGEON | Brian Sawyer | Fantasy | PET | Published in Cursor issue 15 | |
| 1980 | Rogue | Michael Toy, others | Fantasy | CROSS | Inspired the genre as a whole. | |
| 1982 | Telengard | Daniel Lawrence | Fantasy | APPII, ATR, C64, TRS80 | ||
| 1982 | Sword of Fargoal | Jeff McCord | Fantasy | C64, PET, VIC20 | Based on Gammaquest II by the same author. | |
| 1982 | Hack | Jay Fenlason, Andries Brouwer, others | Futuristic | CROSS | Later became the basis for NetHack. | |
| 1982 | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain | Mattel Electronics | Fantasy | INT | ||
| 1983 | 1999 | Moria | Robert Alan Koeneke & Jimmey Wayne Todd | Fantasy | CROSS | Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings. Later port (Umoria) became the basis of Angband. Influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard's Diablo. |
| 1985 | 1987 | Dungeon of Doom, The | John Raymonds | Fantasy | MAC | Released commercially in 1987 as The Dungeon Revealed. |
| 1985 | Island of Kesmai | John Taylor, Kelton Flinn | Fantastical | CROSS | Early CompuServe commercial multiplayer game | |
| 1986 | 1987 | Larn | Noah Morgan, Phil Cordier | Fantasy | CROSS | Original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection. |
| 1987 | 2003 | NetHack | The NetHack DevTeam | Fantasy | CROSS | Descendant of Hack. |
| 1987 | 1992 | Scarab of Ra | Rick Holzgrafe | Modern, Fantasy | MAC | Turn-based Roguelike played in first-person 3D. |
| 1988 | Moraff's Revenge | Steve Moraff | Fantasy | DOS | One of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective role-playing video games. | |
| 1989 | N/A | Castle of the Winds | SaadaSoft | Fantasy | WIN3X | |
| 1990 | N/A | Dragon Crystal | Sega | Fantasy | GG, SMS | |
| 1990 | 2011 | Angband | Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand | Fantasy | CROSS | Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings. |
| 1991 | N/A | Fatal Labyrinth | Sega | Fantasy | GEN | |
| 1991 | Moraff's World | Steve Moraff | Fantasy | DOS | Sequel to Moraff's Revenge. | |
| 1992 | Mission Thunderbolt | Dave Scheifler, John Calhoun | Futuristic | DEC, MAC, WIN | ||
| 1992 | 1995 | Ragnarok | Norsehelm | Fantasy | DOS | |
| 1993 | Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon | Chunsoft | Fantasy | SNES | ||
| 1993 | N/A | Dungeon Hack | DreamForge | Fantasy | DOS | |
| 1994 | 2012 | Ancient Domains of Mystery | Thomas Biskup | Fantasy | AMI, BeOS, DOS, LIN, OS2, OSX, WIN | |
| 1994 | 2012 | World of Arch | I.A. Jääskeläinen | Fantasy | AMI, WIN | |
| 1995 | The Sorcerer's Cave | Peter Donnelly/Skookum | Fantasy | WIN | Based on Donnelly's "roguelike" boardgames, The Sorcerer's Cave (1978) and Mystic Wood published by Avalon Hill in 1980 | |
| 1995, 2008 | Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer | Chunsoft | Fantasy | DS, GB, SNES | ||
| 1997, 1999 | Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon | Square | Fantasy | PS1, WS | ||
| 1997 | 2005 | Linley's Dungeon Crawl | Linley Henzell | Fantasy | CROSS | |
| 1998 | 2008 | Baroque | Sting | Fantasy | PS1, PS2, SAT, Wii | |
| 1998, 1999 | Chocobo's Dungeon 2 | Square | Fantasy | PS1 | Sequel to Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon. | |
| 1998 | 2000 | Azure Dreams | Konami | Fantasy | PS1, GBC | |
| 1998 | Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic | The Slash'EM development team | Fantasy | CROSS | Variant of NetHack. | |
| 1999, 2001 | Torneko: The Last Hope | Chunsoft | Fantasy | GBA, PS1 | Sequel to Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon. | |
| 2000 | 2001 | Dark Cloud | Level-5 | Fantasy | PS2 | Also included a city-building aspect, making it not purely a roguelike, though dungeons did include a roguelike engine. |
| 2000 | 2001 | Falcon's Eye | Jaakko Peltonen | Fantasy | CROSS | Graphical update to NetHack. |
| 2000 | Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren 2: Oni Shūrai! Siren-jō! | Chunsoft | Fantasy | N64 | ||
| 2001 | 2011 | Lost Labyrinth | Lost Labyrinth | Fantasy | WIN, LIN | "Zelda style" gameplay, graphics and sound; plays to its conclusion in 10-40 minutes. |
| 2002 | 2004 | Strange Adventures In Infinite Space | Digital Eel | Space science fiction | WIN, MAC, PALM, PPC | Full graphics, sound and music; plays to completion in 20 minutes or less. |
| 2002 | 2003 | Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 | Level-5 | Fantasy | PS2 | Much like its predecessor, Dark Cloud, it wasn't a pure roguelike, including world-building aspects, though dungeons remained roguelike. |
| 2002 | 2012 | Doom, the Roguelike | Kornel Kisielewicz | Futuristic, Fantasy | LIN, WIN | Based on the Doom series by id Software. |
| 2004 | Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon, The | Arika, Chunsoft | Fantasy | PS2 | Sequel to The Blue Crystal Rod for SNES. | |
| 2005 | 2012 | Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space | Digital Eel | Space science fiction | WIN, MAC, iOS | Full graphics, sound and music; sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space; plays to its conclusion in less than 30 minutes. |
| 2005 | N/A | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team | Chunsoft | Modern, Fantasy | DS | |
| 2005 | N/A | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | Chunsoft | Modern, Fantasy | GBA | |
| 2005 | 2006 | Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal | Konami | Fantasy | DS | Semi-sequel to Azure Dreams. |
| 2006 | Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja | Success | Fantasy | DS | ||
| 2006 | 2012 | Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup | Community | Fantasy | CROSS (open source) | Fork of Linley's Dungeon Crawl |
| 2006 | 2012 | Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress | Tarn Adams | Fantasy | LIN, OSX, WIN | |
| 2006 | Dragon Quest: Shonen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon | cavia | Fantasy | PS2 | Spin-off of Dragon Quest VIII. | |
| 2007 | N/A | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness | Chunsoft | Modern, Fantasy | DS | |
| 2007 | N/A | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time | Chunsoft | Modern, Fantasy | DS | |
| 2007 | 2008 | Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns | Ninja Studio | Fantasy | DS | Sequel to Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja |
| 2008 | Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon | Square Enix | Fantasy | Wii | ||
| 2008 | 2010 | Shiren the Wanderer | Chunsoft | Fantasy | Wii, PSP | 3rd game in the series. |
| 2009 | N/A | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky | Chunsoft | Modern, Fantasy | DS | |
| 2009 | 2012 | Brogue | Brian Walker | Fantasy | WIN, MAC, LIN | smooth learning curve, strategic depth and a beautiful ASCII/Unicode display |
| 2009 | 2012 | Spelunky | Derek Yu, Andy Hull | Modern, Fantasy | WIN (2009), XBLA (2012) | 2D action-adventure platformer without save points that has four increasingly difficult areas with exclusive features that are divided into multiple randomly generated caves of which each one might contain a further unique secret. |
| 2010 | 100 Rogues | Dinofarm Games | Fantasy | iPhone OS | ||
| 2010 | Smart Kobold | Jeff Lait | Fantasy | WIN, Linux | A "seven-day roguelike" that was selected for demonstration at IndieCade, E3 2010. It attempts to implement a high level of artificial intelligence for a single type of enemy. | |
| 2010 | Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman | Nippon Ichi Software | Fantasy | PSP | ||
| 2011 | Dungeons of Dredmor | Gaslamp Games | Fantasy | WIN, LIN, OSX | Tile-based movement with rudimentary graphics and a sense of humour. | |
| 2011 | The Binding of Isaac (video game) | Edmund McMillen, Florian Himsl | Surrealistic, Horror | WIN, LIN, OSX | 2D Dungeon exploration without save points inspired by The Legend of Zelda, but with semi-randomly accessed floors with exclusive features that have randomly generated rooms of various types potentially including random items. | |
| 2012 | FTL: Faster Than Light | Subset Games | Futuristic, Space Simulator | WIN, LIN, OSX | 2D Dungeon exploration styled after space travel. Players move from system to system avoiding a trailing horde of enemies as they participate in side-quests, with the ultimate goal of entering the last area. |
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