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Nethack - the ultimate low end system capable game (self.lowendgaming)

submitted 1 year ago by BangersAndMash to c/[email protected]

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Nethack is now 36 years old, still in development, runs on windows, Linux, Apple and a multitude of other systems. You can run it in a console, remotely, if you don't have the ability to install or download to your computer. It's complex, difficult, entertaining and will soak up any free time you have.

I've played it on and off for a decade now and never made it past half way and have always learnt something new.

Play in browser: https://alt.org/nethack/hterm/ Telnet: alt.org port 23 SSH: [email protected] Download: https://www.nethack.org/

Have you got the Amulet of Yendor? Any stupid deaths? Surprising finds?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Played it for about a year a long time ago, I think it was the PC version? I'd played it even earlier but it was "taking too long". Plenty of food-related deaths.

So I read all the FAQs and spoilers, it was still hard! But now I could make progress and learn some real strategy, as well as understand which spoilers were actually relevant. So after a year I was finally able to ascend.

Since then I've really enjoyed rogue-likes and other turn-based games.