Rogue (2020)

Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand ‘Rogue-likes’. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.

Rogue, an iconic game which emerged in the early 1980s, is a classic dungeon-crawling adventure where each journey is unique as the rooms are generated randomly. This game’s combination of random generation and perma-death has since then become popularized in the genre of “Rogue-likes”. In Rogue, the player is tasked with finding the fabled Amulet of Yendor, which can only be achieved by battling dozens of unique and powerful enemies, gathering armor, weapons, food, and other items while scouring rooms for hidden doors and traps. Additionally, the game offers exciting elements of discovering magical spells and potions with wondrous effects every time the game is played. Surviving its challenging 26 randomly generated levels, each more treacherous than the last, proves to be a difficult task to overcome. Even more so with the knowledge that past adventurers who have tried before never returned, adding a sense of tension to the game. With an entertaining narrative perspective as “the Rogue,” players can expect an intriguing experience. Overall, Rogue has proven to be influential to the fantasy gaming industry and a must-try for anyone interested in the genre.