rogue-like
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of roguelike.
adj
Alternative form of roguelike.
noun
Alternative form of roguelike.
adj
Alternative form of roguelike.
Example Sentences
- "Roughly a dozen different flavors of Rogue-likes have evolved over the years, but one of the most popular is Nethack."
- "Diablo is not an RPG. I've been reading through the posts and some people agree with this, so just what IS Diablo (as far as game type). Well, I'd say Diablo is a "Rogue-like"."
- "As with the Rogue-likes before it, Tunnels of Doom featured random encounters with monsters, wildly varying treasure, and a final quest that required the lost king to be defeated (Barton 2008:81)."
- "The main tool Rogue-likes bring to creating interesting gameplay through randomness is algorithmic complexity far beyond that provided by a few 1D100 tables in the back of the D&D rulebook."
- "DND just goes to show you that you don't need graphics to achieve greatness. I think the legions of people who still play Rogue-likes such as Nethack would agree."
- "I do not think necessary to give the list of the most important microprocessors that were released in the 1990s, because by the 1980s dungeon games ('Rogue-likes') were already firmly established."