Thursday 2 January 2014

10-100

I'm not going to get the runner up details together for a little while, but Darren Grey made the intriguing suggestion that the roguelikes which get between 10-100 votes are the most interesting. With that in mind, and with the assistance of Joseph Bradshaw who has converted the results to a spreadsheet for further analysis (TBD by another volunteer if you want to help out), I'd like to present 'The most interesting roguelikes of the year 2013' as a unicorn chaser.

Wayward99
Sil98
Dungeonmans92
Infra Arcana84
NEOScavenger71
Prospector67
Steam Marines50
One Way Heroics46
Pixel Piracy45
Red Rogue39
WazHack39
868-HACK38
Bionic Dues38
Diablo, the Roguelike37
Dungeon of the Endless35
Legend of Dungeon35
Triangle Wizard31
Eldritch27
Delver26
Hoplite26
Hack, Slash, Loot25
UnBrogue25
NPPAngband24
8685652723
KeeperRL23
Forays into Norrendrin20
HyperRogue20
Aurora18
Nuclear Throne18
PRIME18
307917
Paranautical Activity17
The Veins of the Earth16
Hydra Slayer15
308915
Drakefire Chasm14
Tower of Guns14
Kerkerkruip13
Ending12
Voyage to Farland12
Dungeon Dashers11
DynaHack11
Mosaic11
PonyRL11
Rogue's Tale10
8.68-HACK10
Occult Chronicles10

Wednesday 1 January 2014

Winner of the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2013: Noxico

You probably haven't heard of Noxico. It is one of the sub genre of adult roguelikes, that I only was made aware of when I ran this poll last year. The link I'm not going to include in this post has an adults only warning on the front page. The site beyond it is NSFW but in reality is only barely titillating. I'm bemused to see that the first bullet point feature the game has is 'Reasonable Unicode Support'.

Nonetheless, it garnered more votes than any other for the roguelike of the year, and I wish to congratulate the developer for his or her persistent fan base.