NetHack

created and published by Stichting Matematisch Centrum & M.Stephenson in 1985, running on MS-DOS

type: role-play
genre: Dungeon Crawler, Roguelike
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

4.1/5

Official description

'NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.'