Brogue

Overview

Brogue is an ASCII freeware roguelike that focuses on simple and elegant design, without sacrificing emergent complexity and tactical gameplay. Eschewing the design of more complex modern roguelikes, Brogue draws direct inspiration from the original 1980 Rogue, with no character classes, no skills, and (almost) no stats. Nonetheless, it offers players a variety of builds based on the items they find in the dungeon.

A relatively bite-sized run-based game, the player is tasked with finding the Amulet of Yendor on level 26 of the dungeon and return to the surface (the same goal of its predecessor Rogue).