BrogueCE VS BrogueLite

For a long time, most traditional roguelikes were free (although there seem to be more on steam lately). I think Brogue is a good place to start; it isn't too complicated, it has some nice quality of life stuff, cooperates with a mouse, and its pretty for its genre.

I only play community edition, and my ascensions have been lightning, conjuration, teleport and some reaping combinations. My mastery was teleport with invis/reaping support. Multiplicity weapons are good (spear, rapier) but i tend to get ambitious and play hard for a mastery and screw it up.

Your best option is Brogue (community edition), in my opinion.

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Brogue is another good option if you're down with rogue-likes, can basically run on anything (& has an Android version).

Adding Brogue [1] to the list. Neat and very well balanced.

[1] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

Broge, Angband, C:DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, are some options.

If you're looking for an easy version of Brogue my favorite to this day is still Brogue Lite, unfortunately not up to date to the last CE version but I love it:https://github.com/HomebrewHomunculus/BrogueLite

Also, since you've mentioned that you really like to react to what your enemies might to, I must recommend you play the "BrogueLite" (https://github.com/HomebrewHomunculus/BrogueLite) version of the game, since it makes some very welcome changes to the vanilla game if you don't like to be manipulating RNG that much (the most important change is that it eliminates completely the identification minigame).

There's also Brogue Lite, a version of Brogue that removes identification and "cursed crap" items. I like it pretty well - it does a good job removing Brogue's horrifically ritualized early game, aka "try your potions while standing on your head in pool of water..."

And the old repository can still be found here: https://github.com/HomebrewHomunculus/BrogueLite/releases/tag/v1.9.3-hotfix-2

For compiling? Nope, I've built a MacOS executable of a game using Github Actions (in addition to the Win and Linux versions).

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No new code, but I've been creating QoL issues for the backlog. I think colour-coded item names will be really great - no more hunting in your inventory for that strength potion. Showing stat requirements in red if you don't meet them will make inventory juggling faster as well.

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