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I have very little experience with NetHack. I'm basing my comment off of the DCSS FAQ. I probably have misrepresented it. >The history of Crawl is somewhat con

by jere 14y ago

I have very little experience with NetHack. I'm basing my comment off of the DCSS FAQ. I probably have misrepresented it. >The history of Crawl is somewhat convoluted: Crawl was created in 1995 by Linley Henzell. Linley based Crawl loosely on Angband and NetHack, but avoided several annoying aspects of these games, and added a lot of original ideas of his own.

PeterisP 14y ago
For NetHack, these "several annoying aspects" are probably the essence of what makes it different than most 'roguelikes' and makes it good as a separate direction/niche of gameplay.