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This is a comprehensive index of roguelike video games, sorted chronologically. Information regarding date of release, developer, operating system, and notability is provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings.

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APPII Apple II ATR Atari 8-bit family BeOS Platform not recognized. C64 Commodore 64 CROSS Cross-platform DC Dreamcast DEC Platform not recognized. DOS DOS / MS-DOS DS Nintendo DS GBA Game Boy Advance GBC Game Boy Color GEN Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive GG Sega Game Gear LIN Linux MAC Macintosh / Mac OS OS2 OS/2 OSX Mac OS X N64 Nintendo 64 P2000 Platform not recognized. PET Commodore PET PS1 PlayStation / PSone PS2 PlayStation 2 SAT Sega Saturn SMS Sega Master System SNES Super NES / Super Famicom TRS80 TRS-80 VIC20 Commodore VIC-20 Wii Wii WIN Microsoft Windows WIN3X Windows 3.x WS WonderSwan

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First	Last	Title	Developer	Setting	Platform	Notes
1978		Beneath Apple Manor	Don Worth	Fantastical	APPII	One of the earliest commercial Apple II games. It predates Rogue, and was much simpler, but supported a low resolution graphical display in addition to the text version. Was ported to the IBM PC in 1983.[1]
1980		Rogue	Michael Toy, others	Fantastical	CROSS	Inspired the genre as a whole.
1982		Telengard	Daniel Lawrence	Fantastical	APPII, ATR, C64, TRS80
1982		Sword of Fargoal	Jeff McCord	Fantastical	C64, PET, VIC20	Based on Gammaquest II by the same author.
1982		Hack	Jay Fenlason, Andries Brouwer, others	Futuristic	CROSS	Later became the basis for NetHack.
1983	1999	Moria	Robert Alan Koeneke & Jimmey Wayne Todd	Fantastical	DOS	Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings. Later port (Umoria) became the basis of Angband. Influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard's Diablo.[2]
1983		Ancalagon	Hans Pennings	Fantastical	P2000
1985	1987	Dungeon of Doom, The	John Raymonds	Fantastical	MAC	Released commercially in 1987 as The Dungeon Revealed.
1986	1987	Larn	Noah Morgan, Phil Cordier	Fantastical	CROSS	Original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection.[3]
1987	2003	NetHack	The NetHack DevTeam	Fantastical	CROSS	Descendant of Hack.
1987	1992	Scarab of Ra	Rick Holzgrafe	Modern, Fantastical	MAC	Turn-based Roguelike played in first-person 3D.
1988		Moraff's Revenge	Steve Moraff	Fantastical	DOS	One of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective RPGs.
1989	N/A	Castle of the Winds	SaadaSoft	Fantastical	WIN3X
1990	N/A	Dragon Crystal	Sega	Fantastical	GG, SMS
1990	2009	Angband	Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand	Fantastical	CROSS	Based heavily on The Lord of the Rings.
1991	N/A	Fatal Labyrinth	Sega	Fantastical	GEN
1991		Moraff's World	Steve Moraff	Fantastical	DOS	Sequel to Moraff's Revenge.
1992		Mission Thunderbolt	Dave Scheifler, John Calhoun	Futuristic	DEC, MAC, WIN
1992	1995	Ragnarok	Norsehelm	Fantastical	DOS
1993		Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon	Chunsoft	Fantastical	SNES
1993	N/A	Dungeon Hack	DreamForge	Fantastical	DOS
1993		Reaping The Dungeon	Ron Heuse	Fantastical	DOS
1994	2002	Ancient Domains of Mystery	Thomas Biskup	Fantastical	AMI, BeOS, DOS, LIN, OS2, OSX, WIN
1995, 2008		Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer	Chunsoft	Fantastical	DS, GG, SNES
1996	1997	Diablo, Diablo: Hellfire	Blizzard Entertainment, Sierra (expansion)	Fantastical	WIN, OS	Forerunner of point-and-click Action RPG Genre
1997, 1999		Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon	Square	Fantastical	PS1, WS
1997	2005	Linley's Dungeon Crawl	Linley Henzell	Fantastical	CROSS
1998	2008	Baroque	Sting	Futuristic, Horror	PS1, PS2, SAT, Wii
1998, 1999		Chocobo's Dungeon 2	Square	Fantastical	PS1	Sequel to Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon.
1998	2008	Tales (or Troubles) of Middle Earth	DarkGod, others	Fantastical	CROSS
1998	N/A	Azure Dreams	Konami	Fantastical	PS1
1998		Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic	The Slash'EM development team	Fantastical	CROSS	Variant of NetHack.
1999, 2001		Torneko: The Last Hope	Chunsoft	Fantastical	GBA, PS1	Sequel to Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon.
2000	2001	Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction	Blizzard Entertainment	Fantastical	WIN, OSX	Action RPG
2000	2001	Dark Cloud	Level-5	Fantastical	PS2	Also included a city-building aspect, making it not purely a roguelike, though dungeons did include a roguelike engine.
2000	2001	Falcon's Eye	Jaakko Peltonen	Fantastical	CROSS	Graphical update to NetHack.
2000		Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Siren 2: Oni Shūrai! Siren-jō!	Chunsoft	Fantastical	N64
2002	2003	Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2	Level-5	Fantastical	PS2	Much like it's predecessor, Dark Cloud, it wasn't a pure roguelike, including world-building aspects, though dungeons remained roguelike.
2002	2008	Doom, the Roguelike	Kornel Kisielewicz	Futuristic, Fantastical	LIN, WIN	Based on the Doom series by id Software.
2002, 2004		Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daiboken 3	Chunsoft	Fantastical	GBA, PS2	Sequel to Torneko: The Last Hope.
2002		Furai no Shiren Gaiden: Onnakenshi Asuka Kenzan	Chunsoft	Fantastical	DC
2003		Flatspace	Cornutopia	Futuristic	WIN	Action RPG.
2003	2007	Transcendence	George Moromisato	Futuristic	WIN	Action RPG.
2004		Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon, The	Arika, Chunsoft	Fantastical	PS2	Sequel to The Blue Crystal Rod for SNES.
2005		Flatspace II	Cornutopia	Futuristic	WIN	Action RPG. Sequel to Flatspace.
2005	N/A	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantastical	DS
2005	N/A	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantastical	GBA
2005	2007	FATE	WildStudios	Fantastical	WIN, OSX	Action RPG.
2006		Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja	Success	Fantastical	DS
2006	2009	Stone Soup	Community	Fantastical	CROSS (open source)	Fork of Linley's Dungeon Crawl
2006	2008	Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress	Tarn Adams	Fantastical	LIN, OSX, WIN
2006	2008	LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars	Mario Donick	Fantastical	LIN, WIN
2006		Dragon Quest: Shonen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon	cavia	Fantastical	PS2	Spin-off of Dragon Quest VIII.
2006	2007	Titan Quest, Titan Quest: Immortal Throne	Iron Lore Entertainment	Mythological	WIN	Action RPG
2007		Dungeon Runners	NCsoft	Fantastical	WIN	Action RPG.
2007	N/A	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantastical	DS
2007	N/A	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantastical	DS
2007		Hellgate: London	Flagship	Futuristic, Dystopia, Fantastical	WIN	Action RPG.
2007	2008	Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns	Ninja Studio	Fantastical	DS	Sequel to Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
2008		Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon	Square Enix	Fantastical	Wii
2008		Dramatic Dungeon Sakura Taisen ~Kimi aru gatame~	Sega	Fantastical	DS
2008		Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime	Chunsoft	Fantastical	Wii
UNK	2008	Vulture's Eye	Clive Crous, et al	Fantastical	CROSS	Graphical update to NetHack. Replaces defunct Falcon's Eye.
UNK	2008	Vulture's Claw	Clive Crous, et al	Fantastical	CROSS	Graphical update to Slash'EM.
2009		Kagura Douchuuki	Debo no su Productions	Modern Day, Fantastical	WIN	Eroge
2009	N/A	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky	Chunsoft	Modern, Fantastical	DS
2009		Torchlight	Runic Games	Fantastical	WIN, OSX	Action RPG.
TBD		Mythos	Flagship, HanbitSoft	Fantastical	WIN	Action RPG. Uses the Hellgate: London engine.

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v • d • e Chronology of electronic role-playing games Console role-playing games to 1989 · 1990–1994 · 1995–1999 · 2000–2004 · 2005–2009 · Unreleased Computer role-playing games to 1989 · 1990–1999 · 2000–2009 · Unreleased Tactical role-playing games to 1994 · 1995–1999 · 2000–2004 · 2005–2009 · Unreleased Other subgenres Roguelikes See also: List of Dungeons & Dragons video games and Timeline of role-playing games