Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing games characterized by the exploration of randomly-generated dungeons and permanent death. These characteristics were featured in the classic computer game Rogue, hence the term "Roguelike".
Easily one of my top favorite because it's got all the right sounds that you need and the soundtrack. Also gave me more stress, tension, and bigger highs then playing Doom.
Probably Nethack. Even though other games like ADOM take that concept and expand on it, I like Nethack's particular blend of static and randomized elements in each run, immense depth of item and environment interactions, and the typical length of each run is in a nice sweet spot for me, too.
I'm with cloudymusic. Nethack was the first roguelike I played and it's still my favorite, even though I don't play it often anymore and I'm really bad at it.
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