This newsgroup is purely for the announcement of new roguelikes, patches and so on. Since the death of RLNews the newsgroup has become more active. If you can't access the newsgroup above then try the menu to the left or at groups.google.com

INFORMATION

A Brief History of "Rogue"

This page contains the actual history of Rogue writtent by one of the original authors, Glenn R. Wichman.

Balrog

If you are interested in the history of roguelike games you have to visit this site. The site, which is managed by Erik Inge Bolsø, has an almost complete list of all the roguelikes ever made.

Guide to Roguelike Games

If you are new to roguelike games this page is worth a visit. It explains in detail what a roguelike game is, describing it's user interface and it's goals.

rec.games.roguelike.* at groups.google.com

There are newsgroups for all of the big roguelikes like ADOM, Angband, Rogue etc. If you do not have access to the newsgroups through your e-mail account you can read and post news through google.com or use any of the free newsservers listed at NewsSearch.

Textmode Games

This page is a tribute to textmode games in general, thus relating to roguelike games somewhat.

GAMES

There are five major roguelikes, each with its own newsgroup. They are ADOM, Angband, Moria, Nethack and Rogue. Besides these there are a multitude of popular Angband variants and Linley's Dungeon Crawl (or just Crawl for short).

THE BIG ONES

ADOM

One of the most popular roguelikes with its own newsgroup at rec.games.roguelike.adom

Angband

This is one of the classic roguelike games. Angband has a huge set of offsprings such as ZAngband, T.O.M.E., TkAngband, Psiband etc. Newsgroup can be found at rec.games.roguelike.angband. Official FAQs are Angband FAQ 1, Angband FAQ 2, Angband Variant FAQ

Angband.oook.cz

This is a really interesting site for all the *band players. This site has lots of content with highscore ladders, sourcecode browser and much more...

Linley's Dungeon Crawl

This is an up and coming roguelike that is definately worth a look. Besides the real majors like ADOM, Nethack and Angband I'd say that this is the RL that is played the most.

Moria

This is one of the classic roguelikes and the first roguelike that I played. Newsgroup at rec.games.roguelike.moria. Official FAQ.

NetHack

This is one of the five major roguelikes. Newsgroup at rec.games.roguelike.nethack. FAQ for the r.g.r.n newsgroup.

Rogue

This is the mother of all roguelikes. Newsgroup at rec.games.roguelike.rogue

ROGUELIKE COLLECTIONS

CRPG12

This page has a really interesting collection of OLD roguelikes (including the original DOS version of Hack) and other CRPGS.

Also, make sure to check out the The Rogue Archive here at roguelikedevelopment.org for all of the really old Rogue versions and The List for a full list of all actively developed roguelikes!