This term has been the subject of much discussion, but to someone who encountered the genre in the 90s, a roguelike is a top-down, turn-based RPG with randomized levels.
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Rogue Glenn Wichman Multi 1980 1 video 36 logs Rogue: The Adventure Game Artificial Intelligence Design Amiga 1986 8 logs Nethack Multi 1987 1 video 57 logs Angband Multi 1990 35 logs Fatal Labyrinth Sega GEN 1990 1 video 8 logs Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon Chunsoft SNES 1993 1 logs CWM Moria Thomas H. Davies Amiga 1994 18 logs Ancient Domains of Mystery Multi 1994 5 logs Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer Chunsoft SNES 1995 1 video 1 logs Chocobo's Dungeon 2 Squaresoft PS 1998 1 video 2 logs Simple 1500 Series Vol.028 - The Dungeon RPG PS 2000 1 logs POWDER GBA 2003 6 logs Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: RRT Chunsoft GBA 2005 1 logs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Multi 2006 7 logs Brogue Brian Walker MAC 2009 21 logs chickhack C64 2009 1 logs Infra Arcana Martin Tornqvist Win 2010 3 videos 53 logs Brogue Brian Walker Win 2010 6 videos 34 logs Vicious Orcs Jeff Lait Win 2011 8 logs Netpack Royal Paw Win 2011 13 logs Cardinal Quest Android 2012 C 6 logs Tales of Maj'Eyal Nicolas Casalini Win 2012 2 logs Pixel Dungeon Watabou Android 2012 3 logs Forays into Norrendrin Win 2012 1 video 23 logs DoomRL ChaosForge Win 2013 2 videos 14 logs The Ground Gives Way BtS Win 2014 1 video 11 logs Caves of Qud Freehold Games Win 2015 1 video 5 logs 868-HACK Michael Brough IOS 2016 1 logs 1-Bit Rogue kan.kikuchi Android 2016 1 logs Cogmind Grid Sage Games Win 2018 1 video 4 logs Door in the Woods Win 2019 2 logs Curse of the Lich King Johan Peitz Pico-8 2019 1 video 3 logs Jupiter Hell ChaosForge Win 2019 1 video 2 logs Porklike Krystman Pico-8 2020 2 logs Crown Trick NEXT Studios XB1 2021 1 video 1 logs Into Ruins Eric Billingsley Pico-8 2022 1 video 15 logs Cyber Owls Ufo50 2024 2 logs