This list will mostly be reccomendations of (mostly) freeware graphical Roguelikes/Dungeon Crawlers.
Green: Look out for
Red: Buy only
A realistic "survival" roguelike here is some information:
"A graphical roguelike from the Finnish developers Sami Maaranen and Erkka Lehmus. The game is set in Iron Age Finland with your character trying to survive and prosper in this environment. It stands out from other roguelike RPGs due to the way the game centres more around survival in a somewhat realistic world rather than adventuring, killing goblins to save the princess and dungeon crawling. The game allows for several skills to be learned, such as trapping (either for food or to tame the animals), fishing, hideworking, cookery and trading. Your character can build up a home and live out as a hermit (adding traps around your home to drive home the point) or interact with the local towns and try to woo the local women for marriage."
Blood Rune (GREEN)
A 3D Dungeon Crawler by Spectre Software in the spirit of Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder, I don't know if it has been released or not if you see them selling it on their site tell me.. The last site update was in 2007, so it might be vaporware (a demo is also out).
Enombed (GREEN)
Another Dungeon Master clone in beautiful 3D, this last update was in April so it's far from vaporware (it also has a demo that was released in 2007).
"Master of Chaos, developed by Genuwax, is a multiplayer clone for Atari STF/STE or Falcon. It uses the original graphics of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back. Two players can play simultaneously, either on the same screen, or via a serial line on two different computers (via midi): up to 2*2 players in the same maze!"
The Devil Whisky (RED)
A sexy looking clone of Bard's Tale with a lot of depth.
A stylish in development (freeware) dungeon crawler, I suggest to keep a eye on this.
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- graphical mode (800x600; 1024x768; Netbook mode)
- text-based console mode
- sound effects
- optional music
- configurable keyboard
- 3 difficulty levels
- alternate ways to win with different endings
- 4 professions to choose from (Enchanter, Thief, Archer, Soldier)
- 5 gods to worship (Aphrodite, Apoll, Hermes, Dionysos, Ares)
- 10 skills, abilities and talents to train
- 4 character presets for an easier start for new players
- 25 dungeon levels, most of them randomly generated when entered
- 40+ quests
- 20+ different standard monsters, many of them with special abilities
- several unique monsters
- many carefully handcrafted items
- 20+ different spells to learn and to train (incl. some not so easy to be obtained)"
A graphical freeware roguelike, just download it.
Silmar (RED)
A graphical roguelike, to beat the game you have to pay $10 (through paypal) to the developer though.
A freeware game inspired by the earily Ultimas.
A graphical (multi-window) cyberpunk roguelike.
Mines of Morgoth (RED)
A graphical roguelike with a good deal of depth (you have to buy the full version).
A roguelike that allows you to switch from ASCII to graphical.
"Dungeon Crawl has superb, deep tactical gameplay, innovative magic and religion systems, and a grand variety of monsters to fight. Crawl is also one of the hardest roguelikes to beat. When you finally beat the game and write your victory post on rec.games.roguelike.misc, you know you've achieved something.
You can also play Crawl online on a public telnet server thanks to the good folks at crawl.akrasiac.org and crawl.develz.org. These public servers allow you to meet other players' ghosts, watch other people playing, and, in general, have a blast. In addition to the most recent official release the latter also hosts the beta version of the next one, which you can download or play online."
A mech roguelike, build and fight in your own mech, fight others, etc.
"Some features at a glance:
- Random events while in a dungeon/town or just by traveling.
- Randomly generated sidequests via notice boards in every town.
- Randomly generated dungeons
- Player housing: Your clout is improved (or lowered) based on what kind of house you have and how well you decorate it. You start out in a **** Seriously.
- Ability to place new structures such as a ranch, farm, etc. anywhere on the world map. These structures are operational and allow you to further improve your income.
- Marriage and lineage system where you and your spouse can have a child and pass on that genetic data to the next character you create. (Incarnate Character option on the Main Menu)
- Companions can join your party by inviting, hiring, buying them as slaves, or just subduing them. Your party size is based on your charisma.
You start the game with one companion: a dog, cat, bear, or little girl - Material collection/crafting.
- Minigames
- Online network support.
- Moongates that teleport you to a room that another player designed with the built-in level editor. These rooms are generally death traps because everyone hates you.
- Semireal-time chat with other players that are currently playing.
- In-game voting of best player title.
- View other player's deaths and their death messages as they occur.
- You can destroy towns. There's even a sidequest that involves nuking an entire village.
- Custom portraits. (Edit face1.bmp face2.bmp face3 etc in elonausergraphic)
- Original soundtrack (see Downloads below). Custom music can be added.
- Gamepad support."