Roguelike is a subgenre of role-playing video games characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.

Why is it called roguelike?

Roguelike originates from the game Rogue released in 1980, hence the name roguelike. However some claim that there are earlier occurrences of roguelike genre games such as Beneath Apple Manor and Sword of Fargoal. Some main characteristics of the Roguelike genre are: Procedural generation.

What makes a roguelike Reddit?

Roguelike is a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player character.