This is not to say that I enjoy my characters starving, but Brogue's design pays particular attention to trying to never make you bored / making nearly every keystroke meaningful (whereas vanilla nethack can be mind-numbing). I used to keep careful notes about what else was in each vault so that I could backtrack if I found a duplicate of what I picked up in a vault, until I noticed that I was dying to the food clock a lot. Brogue has item vaults where you have to pick one out of 4-8 items, and you don't know what's going to be lying around on the ground over the next few levels, so you have to take a risk and pick what you think is best. This is not to say that I don't like food clocks I think Brogue's is an excellent example of a well-tuned food clock. I haven't really played it since maybe 2012, but at that time dealing with food was mostly a chore, hardly ever a problem, and you were set for life after you went through the hive and picked up scads of royal jelly. I read somewhere that, since I stopped playing, they removed the food mechanic! To my own surprise, even though food clocks are a very archetypal roguelike mechanic, I agree with that removal. They seem to be principled in their decision-making. I've been impressed by DCSS's dev team's ability and willingness to make unpopular decisions and make radical changes to the game.
and have lists but I would guess that roguebasin's list would be more authoritative. I wanted to link to for a complete list but it's having struggles today. Tales of Maj'Eyal is the continuation of an angband variant called Tales of Middle-Earth / T.o.M.E., which name change I gather was necessary because DarkGod wanted to go commercial. Sil is kind of an Angband variant but embraces the middle earth theme a lot more and has removed a lot of stuff. MAngband was (wait, IS! it had a release in 2020) a mind-blowing multiplayer Angband variant. OAngband "opinion angband" scratched the itch of its developers about how Angband should work. SAngband "skills angband" added weapon skills and probably tons more. ZAngband "Zelazny Angband" took the tolkien elements and added elements from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series.
There's tons of variants, probably the most out of any of the roguelikes. It's actively maintained and has a passionate community. It's a nice change of pace from the classic characters and play styles. In a game that favors cautious advance (it's not uncommon to fully recover after an encounter), the recent edition introduced a new Blackguard class that's more momentum based in that once in combat, you'd like to sustain combat to get more powerful, and stronger. I don't follow the space to know if there are a lot of Nethack variants the like that Angband has spawned. Different themes, different mechanics, different character classes. There are lots of variants from "Vanilla" as its called. Angband is more straightforward.Īngband, with its Tolkien theme, has large maps, hordes of monsters, frightening uniques, a large amount of ancient artifacts and has its gameplay centered around a town that you routinely travel to in order to refresh and reload. I can't speak historically as to what it may or may not have pioneered in roguelikes, but it's varies dramatically philosophically from the likes of Nethack and its bottomless trivia and tricks.
I've been playing Angband off and on since the mid 80's when it's ancestor, Moria, hit the DECUS tapes and we'd run it on our VAX.
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