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[ironbelly]

Ok so few games are good enough that I have ever gone back to them after an uninstall. Fallout (all of them)... and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/

No music, no sound, laughable graphics... but man, the level of detail is unbeatable. The difficulty curve is excellent. I'm not sure any Roguelike will ever top it. None have so far anyway.

That's my opinion of course

Anyone playing it? A new version came out that sucked me back in after a couple years of hiatus. My mighty Minotaur of Ru is currently smashing some elves down in the Elven Halls... with an axe, a sling, and a shield. Worried about end game due to Ru obliterating my ability for spell casting... going to be just melee, ranged, and wands/scrolls/potions. And Ru... who apparently kicks some serious tail.

(Last game ended my Gargoyle of Qazlal in the Realm of Zot... due to a wrong button press)

[s0]

crawl is always one of the first games i install on every new computer or OS reinstall (except my current windows 7 installation oops). i actually started playing it way back when it was still linley's dungeon crawl. best traditional roguelike.

[jeremiah]

DCSS is pretty great. I've been playing it off and on for 7 years and only recently beat it for the second time; first win: spriggan venom mage, second win (15 rune): minotaur berserker. I hang out a lot in the roguelike subreddit and DCSS is widely recommend and discussed there.

[yeahjim]

I haven't played it in years, but like Silbereisen, played it back when it was Linley's. By the standards of ##crawl, I am barely a beginner, but I've beaten it dozens of times with a variety of challenge characters. It's an awesome game with awesome devs.

Have they done much to improve the mid-game slog lately?

EDIT: Don't know why I said years; suppose I mean that I haven't played it seriously in years. I guess my last logon to the server was maybe 4 months ago...?

[MeshGearFox]

I remember playing this when my dogs weren't dead.

Specifically, senior year of college, on my laptop in my parents van when we were going to Gatlinburg for Thanksgiving, and that was a time in my life when I wasn't sleeping much at all and that was a winter where I was having a hard time staying warm.

[ironbelly]

Minotaur ate it in the Depths due to an unlucky teleport. *sigh* Back to the drawing board

[yeahjim]

Ironbelly, do you play online? What's your handle? I'll eat cheetoes and silently judge you for your mistakes

[Dacke]

Yup, one of my favorite games. I discovered it late 2012 and have been coming back to it 1-2 times a year since. I've got two wins, MiBe (3 runes) and MiFi (6 runes), both within a month of discovering the game. After that I've been trying other stuff with... less success.