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Why is Pixel Dungeon so underrated (self.pixeldungeon)

submitted 4 months ago by TheGreatWizard to c/pixeldungeon

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Why is Pixel Dungeon so underground? To me, it seems basically like a turn-based souls game. I am playing this game for 2 years now (The OG Pixel Dungeon) and i still find new content, like its infinite.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pixel Dungeon is a rogue-like, those existed way before Dark Souls. There are even text-based games running in a Unix terminal, I think Nethack is one of the oldest, if not the oldest itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nethack can't be the oldest, because it was derived from hack.

I don't know whether hack or rogue was first, though.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_%28video_game%29

Hack is a 1984 roguelike video game that introduced shops as gameplay elements and expanded available monsters, items, and spells. It later became the basis for NetHack.

Looks like rogue was first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_%28video_game%29

Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Heh, makes sense the first rogue-like was Rogue.

[–] chonglibloodsport 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, Rogue isn’t the first. That honour belongs to the obscure game Beneath Apple Manor.

[–] Vencedor 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Beneath Apple Manor and Rouge's creators claim they don't know themselves nor knew of the existence of the other game. Lol.

[–] chonglibloodsport 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah that’s a pretty funny story! Just goes to show you how great ideas have their time!