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Looking for Modern Roguelikes
Meatsock
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I'm looking for a modern Roguelike. Specifically, I was wondering (and hoping beyond hope) if there were any on the 360, though I'm open to any platform. I've heard of Shiren the Wanderer, and it's piqued my interest, though I haven't played it yet. Could somebody throw out some names of any other recent Roguelikes?
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Of course, there's also piles of free ones for the PC.... Angband is my favorite, although while it has modern versions, it's probably not what you mean by a modern roguelike.
The DS is a great platform for modern roguelikes. There's Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, which is fairly easy in that you keep your level when you die, but it's fun. It's by Atlus, though, and very hard to find.
There are also the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games (Blue Rescue Team and Explorers of Time/Darkness) which, like Shiren, are made by Chunsoft and thus have much in common with Shiren, but are aimed at a younger crowd and also fairly easy. I enjoy them, though.
And then if you get into DS homebrew there are ports of Crawl, Nethack, and Powder, which are not modern but portable roguelikes are awesome.
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I'm not sure what you mean by modern, though. Something with graphics? Something that deviates from the typical 'enter dungeon, get treasure, leave' formula?
My fault, I haven't played it so I wasn't aware it was new.
And he said recent in the OP, so I'm assuming that's what he means by modern. It's just that the recent ones happen to have pretty graphics, at least on consoles.
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One has its roots in the 16 bit era, and the other was on the Saturn.
Compared to roguelikes that have nearly 30 year histories, they are.
Yeah yeah, way to ruin my joke by bring up some terribly old games.
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The combat is brutal. You can stab a monster, gouge out its eyes, rip its arms off and beat its friends to death with them.
As for other modern PC roguelikes (with significantly lower system requirements than Dwarf Fortress), Dungeon Crawl is only 13. DoomRL may sound like a terrible idea, but it's a fun roguelike version of the FPS, from 2003 - the same person made a roguelike version of the Diablo demo, which is worth a play, and AliensRL. GearHead's a giant robot roguelike from 2002 or so, and there's a sequel. Incursion is a D20-based roguelike from 2007 which is pretty cool. I personally like UnReal World, which is a fairly old (and not very free) game in which you play some guy in Finland. CastlevaniaRL: Serenade of Chaos is awesome, and has tiles, 6 character types, and whips.
RogueBasin has a list of recent updates and of games released by year, and the whole wiki is interesting, especially its article on 7DRLs and list of such games, which may not be polished (or complete) but are usually entertaining, and play around with concepts you might not see in larger roguelikes. It's where I found out about some of these games.
Edit: Well, you did ask for modern roguelikes, not roguelikes with modern graphics...
I'm not a big ASCII fan so I've been playing the tiled version of Dungeon Crawl.
Otherwise, like others have said, Shiren and the Pokemon mystery dungeon games are your best bet. Hoth are great, Shiren especially.