Roguelike
Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a subgenre of role-playing video games characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character. Most roguelikes are based on a high fantasy narrative, reflecting their influence from tabletop role playing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons".

Though "Beneath Apple Manor" predates it, the 1980 game "Rogue", which is an ASCII based game that runs in terminal or terminal emulator, is considered the forerunner and the namesake of the genre, with derivative games mirroring "Rogue"s character- or sprite-based graphics. These games were popularized among college students and computer programmers of the 1980s and 1990s, leading to hundreds of variants. Some of the better-known variants include "Hack", "NetHack", "Ancient Domains of Mystery", "Moria", "Angband", "Tales of Maj'Eyal", and "Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup". The Japanese series of "Mystery Dungeon" games by Chunsoft, inspired by "Rogue", also fall within the concept of roguelike games.

The exact definition of a roguelike game remains a point of debate in the video game community. A "Berlin Interpretation" drafted in 2008 defined a number of high- and low-value factors that distinguished the "pure" roguelike games "Rogue", "NetHack" and "Angband" from edge cases like "Diablo". Since then, with more powerful home computers and gaming systems and the rapid growth of indie video game development, several new "roguelikes" have appeared, with some but not all of these high-value factors, nominally the use of procedural generation and permadeath, while often incorporating other gameplay genres, thematic elements, and graphical styles; common examples of these include "Spelunky", "", "The Binding of Isaac", "Slay the Spire" and "Hades". To distinguish these from traditional roguelikes, such games may be referred to as "rogue-lite", "roguelike-like", or "procedural death labyrinths".
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