Nethack

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Nethack

https://www.nethack.org/
Adventure game

Single player adventure game (similar to Rogue) of dungeon exploration that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. The emphasis is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, role, gender, and alignment.

IRC general channel

irc://irc.libera.chat/nethack

Download

https://www.nethack.org/v367/download-src.html

version 3.6.7 (stable)
released on 16 February 2023

VCS Checkout

git clone https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack

Categories

• Game:adventure
• Game:role-playing
• Interface:console
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Use:gameplaying

Licensing

License

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License

Nethack license

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Noisytoot

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29 December 2023

Notes

https://nethack.org/common/license.html

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nethack
Help	Newsgroup	rec.games.roguelike.announce
Support	Newsgroup	rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Bug Tracking	VCS Repository Webview	https://nethack.org/v367/bugs.html
Bug Tracking,Developer	E-mail	mailto:devteam@nethack.org

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	make
Weak prerequisite	yacc/bison
Weak prerequisite	flex

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 29 December 2023.

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