Top 15 NetHack Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender. ...

1. Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)

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2. Pathos:Nethack Codex

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3. Angband

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4. Spectral Souls

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5. Brogue

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6. Heroes of Steel

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7. Ancient Domains of Mystery

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8. Zelda Classic

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9. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

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10. Age of Wonders (Series)

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11. FreeDink

FreeDink FreeDink is a portable and enhanced version of the Dink Smallwood game engine.......

12. POWDER

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13. Wakfu

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14. Cube World

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