NetHack

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NetHack is a free roguelike video game developed by the NetHack Development Team (also known as the DevTeam), a group of developers who collaborate over the internet. It was first released on 28 July 1987 as a fork of Hack, which is itself based on Rogue, and it is one of the oldest video games still in active development. In the game, the player creates a character, then descends through the Mazes of Menace, a multi-level dungeon, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, with the goal of retrieving the Amulet of Yendor and escaping with it. NetHack has been cited as an influence on later games, including Diablo. As a roguelike, NetHack features turn-based, grid-based dungeon crawling gameplay, procedurally generated levels, and permadeath. The game is known for its difficulty, and for the many ways in which items, monsters, and the environment can interact. It uses simple ASCII graphics by default, but it can also use alternative symbol sets, graphical tiles, and the curses interface...

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