roguelike
Any of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various…Any of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various characteristics such as randomised environment generation, permadeath, turn-based movement, text-based or primitive tile-based graphics, and hack-and-slash gameplay.
Meaning
1 sensesAny of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various characteristics such as randomised environment generation, permadeath, turn-based movement, text-based or primitive tile-based graphics, and hack-and-slash gameplay.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Rogue (the name of a 1980 computer game which introduced the genre, from rogue) + -liFrom Rogue (the name of a 1980 computer game which introduced the genre, from rogue) + -like.
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Forms
plural: roguelikes| Singular | roguelike |
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Word family
2 related wordsSee also
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