My roguelike of choice is Brogue (https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/). Whereas Nethack was made to satisfy the

My roguelike of choice is Brogue (https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/). Whereas Nethack was made to satisfy the creators' interest in complexity and simulation, Brogue satisfies the creator's interest in design and elegance. Brogue simplifies a lot of the redundancies in Nethack and condenses it down into the core elements of dungeon crawling. While it's a much less complex game, it doesn't sacrifice much in depth. You still get loads of interesting emergent stories. Brogue is probably the most accessible amongst the text-based roguelikes - it's interface is excellent, it manages to be very visually appealing without straying from the ascii aesthetic, and the design of it is streamlined and elegant.