English

NetHack, a roguelike

Noun

roguelike ‎(plural roguelikes)

1. (video games) Any of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various characteristics such as randomised environment generation, permadeath, turn-based movement, text-based or primitive tile-based graphics and hack-and-slash gameplay^[1].
   • I “Like-Like” Roguelikes (Because Love Should Never Be So Cruel), 2011

     If you haven’t played a ‘roguelike’ before, it’s basically what happens when you take a twitchy hack-and-slash game like Diablo and make it boring, confusing, and frustrating.

References

1. ↑ http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretation