This discussion has forced me to ponder my own preferences and prejudices in the genre. This is strictly a personal list. Feel free to ignore it.
YMMV
There will be no fighting from me. My primary focus is NetHack, which btw didn't score 100% on the metric either. Rather than rogue-like, perhaps I should have opted for "significantly similar to NetHack", which is my own standard...
Well, it's a fairly old standard but a place to start. I needed some sort of reference. And for me, the turn based makes more sense if you are dealing with a constantly looming permadeath...
There. A slight adjustment to the display name...
Welcome. Not exactly a hub of activity but it's early. And I'm of the opinion that other rogue-likes are certainly on-topic here as well. The more the merrier...
Valkyrie, especially dwarf, is considered one of the more straightforward choices. Perhaps more familiar for those coming from a heavy hack-n-slash melee background. Barbarian, especially orc, is similar if a bit darker...
That isn't my intent. I spent some time on the subreddit several years ago but I eventually drifted away. But with all the current reddit news, much like the twitter news last year, I decided to see if there was a nethack community on lemmy. Couldn't find one. Thought about it a few days and finally said, "Sure, why not?" Hopefully this isn't going to be me providing a monologue, though. I just wanted a place to talk about the game, preferably with others...
Originally for gopher. Then a website. And now apparently for social as well...
My xnh elven ranger is contemplating the lower mines...