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Chronology of roguelike video games 

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This is a comprehensive list of roguelike video games, sorted chronologically.



First release Title Developer Setting Platform Last release Notes
1978 Beneath Apple Manor Don Worth Fantastical Apple II One of the earliest commercial Apple II games. It predates Rogue, and was much simpler, but supported a low resolution resolution graphical display in addition to the text version. Was ported to the IBM PC in 1983.[1]
1980 Rogue Michael Toy, others Fantastical Cross-platform Inspired the genre as a whole.
1982 Telengard Daniel Lawrence Fantastical Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, TRS-80
1982 Sword of Fargoal Jeff McCord Fantastical Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64 Based on Gammaquest II by the same author.
1982 Hack Jay Fenlason, Andries Brouwer, others Futuristic Cross-platform Later became the basis for NetHack.
1983 Moria David Grabiner Fantastical MS-DOS 1999 Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings. Later port (Umoria) became the basis of Angband. Influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard's Diablo.[2]
1985 Dungeon Revealed, The John Raymonds Fantastical Mac OS 1987
1986 Larn Noah Morgan, Phil Cordier Fantastical Cross-platform 1987 Original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection.[3]
1987 NetHack The NetHack DevTeam Fantastical Cross-platform 2003 Descendant of Hack.
1988 Moraff's Revenge Steve Moraff Fantastical MS-DOS One of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective RPGs.
1989 Castle of the Winds SaadaSoft Fantastical Windows 3.x N/A
1990 Dragon Crystal Sega Fantastical Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System N/A
1990 Angband Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand Fantastical Cross-platform 2008 Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings.
1991 Fatal Labyrinth Sega Fantastical Sega Mega Drive N/A
1991 Moraff's World Steve Moraff Fantastical MS-DOS Sequel to Moraff's Revenge.
1992 Mission Thunderbolt Dave Scheifler, John Calhoun Futuristic DEC, Windows, Mac OS
1992 Ragnarok Norsehelm Fantastical MS-DOS 1995
1993 Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon Chunsoft Fantastical Super Famicon
1993 Dungeon Hack DreamForge Fantastical MS-DOS N/A
1993 Reaping The Dungeon Ron Heuse Fantastical MS-DOS
1994 Ancient Domains of Mystery Thomas Biskup Fantastical AmigaOS, BeOS, DOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Windows 2002
1995, 2008 Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer Chunsoft Fantastical Super Famicon, Game Boy, Nintendo DS
1997, 1999 Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon Square Fantastical PlayStation, WonderSwan
1997 Linley's Dungeon Crawl Linley Henzell Fantastical Cross-platform 2005
1997 Diablo Blizzard North Fantastical PlayStation, Windows, Mac OS Action RPG.
1997 Diablo: Hellfire Synergistic Fantastical Windows Action RPG. Expansion to Diablo.
1998 Baroque Sting Fantastical Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Wii 2008
1998, 1999 Chocobo's Dungeon 2 Square Fantastical PlayStation Sequel to Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon.
1998 Tales (or Troubles) of Middle Earth DarkGod, others Fantastical Cross-platform 2008
1998 Azure Dreams Konami Fantastical PlayStation N/A
1998 Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic The Slash'EM development team Fantastical Cross-platform Variant of NetHack.
1999 Darkstone Delphine Fantastical PlayStation, Windows N/A
1999, 2001 Torneko: The Last Hope Chunsoft Fantastical PlayStation, Game Boy Advance Sequel to Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon.
2000 Diablo II Blizzard North Fantastical Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X Action RPG. Sequel to Diablo.
2000 Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Siren 2: Oni Shūrai! Siren-jō! Chunsoft Fantastical Nintendo 64
2001 Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Blizzard North Fantastical Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X 2005 Action RPG. Expansion to Diablo II.
2001 Lufia: The Legend Returns Neverland Fantastical Game Boy Color N/A
2002 Doom, the Roguelike Kornel Kisielewicz Futuristic, Fantastical Windows, Linux 2008 Based on the Doom series by id Software.
2002, 2004 Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daibōken 3 Chunsoft Fantastical PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance Sequel to Torneko: The Last Hope.
2002 Fūrai no Shiren Gaiden: Onnakenshi Asuka Kenzan Chunsoft Fantastical Dreamcast
2003 Flatspace Cornutopia Futuristic Windows Action RPG.
2003 Transcendence George Moromisato Futuristic Windows 2007 Action RPG.
2004 Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon, The Arika, Chunsoft Fantastical PlayStation 2 Sequel to The Blue Crystal Rod for SNES.
2005 Flatspace II Cornutopia Futuristic Windows Action RPG. Sequel to Flatspace.
2005 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team Chunsoft Modern, Fantastical Nintendo DS N/A
2005 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team Chunsoft Modern, Fantastical Game Boy Advance N/A
2005 FATE WildStudios Fantastical Windows 2007 Action RPG.
2006 Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja Success Fantastical Nintendo DS
2006 Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress Tarn Adams Fantastical Windows, Mac OS X 2008
2006 LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars Mario Donick Fantastical Windows, Linux 2008
2006 Dragon Quest: Shōnen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon cavia Fantastical PlayStation 2 Spin-off of Dragon Quest VIII.
2007 Dungeon Runners NCsoft Fantastical Windows Action RPG.
2007 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness Chunsoft Modern, Fantastical Nintendo DS N/A
2007 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Chunsoft Modern, Fantastical Nintendo DS N/A
2007 Hellgate: London Flagship Futuristic, Dystopia, Fantastical Windows Action RPG.
2008 Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon Square Enix Fantastical Wii
2008 Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime Chunsoft Fantastical Wii
TBD Mythos Flagship Fantastical Windows Action RPG. Uses the Hellgate: London engine.
TBD Diablo III Blizzard Entertainment Fantastical Windows, Mac OS X Action RPG. Sequel to Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

Notes

  1. ^ [1] Home of the Underdogs: Beneath Apple Manor.
  2. ^ Pitts, Russ (2006-06-06). "Secret Sauce: The Rise of Blizzard". The Escapist. Retrieved on 2007-12-24. “[The idea for Diablo was modified over and over until it solidified when [Dave Brevik] was in college and got hooked on … Moria/Angband.”
  3. ^ src/games/larn/. NetBSD CVS Repositories. Accessed January 18, 2008.
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