Roguelike

Roguelike covers games built around procedural runs and severe consequences for failure. The category is defined by randomised layouts, resource scarcity, systemic interaction and repeated learning across fresh attempts, while individual games may combine those ideas in very different proportions.

This page brings together run structure, difficulty, emergent tactics, preservation and distinctions from lighter roguelites. It also distinguishes roguelike design from adjacent genres so that secondary modes or borrowed mechanics do not determine classification.