Games Like NetHack Similar Role-playing Games & Roguelike Games like NetHack

NetHack is described as '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' and is a role-playing game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to NetHack for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Steam apps. The best NetHack alternative is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is both free and Open Source. Other NetHack like games are Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Pixel Dungeon, Ancient Domains of Mystery and MUME.

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  1. Shattered Pixel Dungeon icon

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon

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    Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a Roguelike RPG, with pixel art graphics and lots of variety and replayability. Every game is unique, with four different playable characters, randomized levels and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use.

    36 Shattered Pixel Dungeon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • F-Droid
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    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to NetHack.

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NetHack.

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is Free and Open SourceNetHack is also Free and Open Source
  2. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead icon

    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

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    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.

    29 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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  4. Pixel Dungeon icon

    Pixel Dungeon

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    Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items, fight fierce monsters to find Amulet of Yendor (surprise!) - the ultimate artifact of this game world.

    37 Pixel Dungeon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
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  5. Ancient Domains of Mystery icon

    Ancient Domains of Mystery

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    Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM for short) is a roguelike game which means that it is a single-user game featuring the exploration of a dungeon complex (and in the case of ADOM a few other games of this genre: the exploration of a large wilderness area with villages and many...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • GOG.com
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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  6. MUME icon

    MUME

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    MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a multiplayer text-based online game based upon J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth during the epic war between the forces of the Dark Lord and the armies of the Free peoples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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    • MUME is the most popular Web-based alternative to NetHack.

    • MUME is Free and ProprietaryNetHack is Free and Open Source
  7. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup icon

    Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

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    Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest to rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Dungeons of Dredmor icon

    Dungeons of Dredmor

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    Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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    • Dungeons of Dredmor is the most popular commercial alternative to NetHack.

    • Dungeons of Dredmor is Paid and ProprietaryNetHack is Free and Open Source
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    Desktop Dungeons

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    Desktop Dungeons is a quick-play roguelike puzzle game that gives you roughly 10 minutes of dungeon-crawling action per serving. It straddles the casual and hardcore boundary in that, while you might die frequently because the game is tricky and unforgiving, it’s so approachable...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  11. Xeonjia icon

    Xeonjia

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    Solve ice puzzles and defeat enemies in an RPG world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  12. POWDER icon

    POWDER

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    Descend into the depths of the dungeon until you reach the foul daemon known as "He who the author cannot spell consistently", or, Baezl'bub. When you have slain Baezl'bub in heroic combat, or, if Baezl'bub dies in any way, retrieve his black heart and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  13. Rogue icon

    Rogue

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    Rogue is a 1980 computer role-playing game created by Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MS-DOS
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  14. Hack, Slash, Loot icon

    Hack, Slash, Loot

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    A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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