Features

  • Discover new monsters and equipment the deeper you go.
  • Hunger and regeneration: stay fed and stay healed!
  • Choose between graphical tiles and ASCII display.
  • Menu-based UI with hot keys.
  • Auto-run to quickly follow corridors and cross open space.
  • Save and load system.
  • New Game Plus mode!

Controls

The controls are mostly similar to many other classic roguelikes. Move into monsters to attack them.

Movement keys:

  • Numpad, Arrows, vi-keys - move in eight directions
  • Period, Space, Numpad 5 - wait a turn
  • Shift + direction - auto-run
  • Shift + Space - rest until healed
  • Enter, > (Shift + Period) - use downstairs

Other keys:

  • Esc - options menu
  • v - view mode; move the cursor to view distant tiles

Item keys:

  • i - inventory menu
  • g, , (Comma) - pick up item

Hot keys:

  • a - apply (use) item
  • d - drop item
  • w, e - wield weapon or wear armor
  • r - remove weapon or armor

Menu keys:

  • Movement keys, Page Up/Page Down/Home/End - move cursor
  • Enter - confirm selection
  • Esc - cancel

Hot keys can be used in certain item menus to quickly perform actions.

More Info for Developers

Attribution

Tile graphics are from the Urizen 1Bit Tileset by vurmux.

Download

Download
ruggrogue-1.0.1-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip 2 MB
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ruggrogue-1.0.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz 759 kB

Install instructions

For Windows, just extract the ZIP and run the executable file.

For Linux, extract the archive and run the executable file within its directory; you can run the included helper shell script to ensure that the directory is set properly.

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Thanks for the kind words, glad you like it!