Rogue-like Reccomendations please

[babomb]

You really should play Nethack.

I also recommend checking out the original Rogue, which you can find (along with a number of variants) at the Rougelike Restoration Project.

Legerdemain is also worth checking out. It's not exactly what I'd call a traditional rogue-like, but it's quite interesting.

Finally, I recommend you check out John Harris's column @Play. He has some interesting articles about rogue-likes that might point you to some new ones.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

One pretty fun one I have found recently is Incursion. Best of all its a mash-up of a roguelike and 3.x DnD rules!

It can be found here...

http://www.incursion-roguelike.net

DS

 

[XCorvis]

I just found Elona (via Role Playing Public Radio). It's a cross between Final Fantasy and Rogue. Nice graphics and sound, but it's still being translated from Japanese, so there is a bit of weirdness, but no show-stoppers so far.

 

[Ginnel]

Thanks for the replies

 

[Brain]

I like crawl the best out of any I have tried. Definitely worth a look.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Their design philosophy of trying to reduce the amount of boring repetitive behavior and also item hoarding/selling really helps my opinion of it. If you really like poly-piling, then you may not like it.

The deity you choose makes a huge difference, along with race, then followed by class.

 

[XCorvis]

I've been playing Stone Soup, and it's great. They trimmed out a lot of the crap. It's also less random than Nethack. The down side is that it's still pretty hard.