Rogue likes usually run on a toaster. What’re people’s favorites?
I have a huge soft spot for Crawl: Stone Soup. Runs in a browser, or probably even lower requirements if you download it. The game’s design goals want to minimize tedium and gotchas, so it’s pretty respectful of your time. Auto-explore and auto-travel are real nice. So is the global search for when you’re like “is there anything in this run with resist poison?”
I’ve played a little nethack, adom, and angband, but I always go back to crawl.
DoomRL Or rather “DRL” since the threats to take it down. I’ve put probably 1000 hours into it. Especially the infinite mode. Never got tired shooting for level 666+.
It doesn’t need the tiles and sounds, you can just play in ASCII
I played the heck out of this one when it was new! Good times. I vaguely remember there was a nuke item that blew up the whole level, including you. There was a secret ending if you used the nuke on the final boss while invulnerable
The nuke is nice if you get an invulnerability drop or just want the level nuked after you’ve left. But mostly it’s a pain in the ass if you want to search for loot but won’t have time. It’s pretty rare though. There’s so many other cursed items to watch out for that I usually die from something like a pair of lava boots that pin you to the ground or armour that can’t be repaired.