Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2009 Winners!

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The gigantic poll for teh best roguelike of 2009 has finished at Ascii dreams, and the undoubted winner is…. Doom: The Roguelike!

DoomRL

This comes to no surprise as this popular coffeebreak roguelike has broken free from the roguelike niche into the indie world, spawning an active community and attracting heaps of people into our roguemundi!  Congratulations to Kornel and good luck with all his endeavours!

Following are the 10 first games:

1. DoomRL: 227 votes

2. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 170 votes

3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 69 votes

4. POWDER: 48 votes

5. Elona: 32 votes

6. GearHead 2: 27 votes

7. Angband: 24 votes

8. Unangband: 21 votes

9. Privateer: ASCII Sector: 19 votes

10. Triangle Wizard: 18 votes

Congratulations to all developers!

The gigantic poll for teh best roguelike of 2008 has finished at Ascii dreams, and the undoubted winner is…. Dungeon Crawl, Stone Soup!

This comes to no surprise as this “variant” has given Crawl, which was already one of the most popular roguelike, a new breath of life. Congratulations to all the development team!

Following are the 10 first games:

1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 126 votes

2. Dwarf Fortress: 116 votes

3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 45 votes

3. DoomRL: 45 votes

5. POWDER: 30 votes

6. Legerdemain: 28 votes

7. GearHead-2: 18 votes

7. Elona: 18 votes

9. Unangband: 16 votes

10. T.o.M.E: 15 votes

Congratulations to all developers!

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6 thoughts on “Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2009 Winners!”

  2. Very nice and interesting that Triangle Wizard made the top ten as a realtime wildcard in a crack assortment of turn based ones.

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  5. LINKS TO THE TOP TEN…. as of 15 Jan 2010
    1. DoomRL: 227 votes
    http://doom.chaosforge.org/
    2. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 170 votes
    http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/
    3. Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King: 69 votes
    http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/
    4. POWDER: 48 votes
    http://www.zincland.com/powder
    5. Elona: 32 votes
    http://homepage3.nifty.com/rfish/index_e.html
    6. GearHead 2: 27 votes
    http://www.gearheadrpg.com/
    7. Angband: 24 votes
    http://rephial.org/
    8. Unangband: 21 votes
    http://unangband.blogspot.com/
    9. Privateer: ASCII Sector: 19 votes – last update dec 2009
    http://www.asciisector.net/
    10. Triangle Wizard: 18 votes
    Link dead at time of trying 15 Jan 2010 – hooray for crappy free hosting sites?
    http://www.trianglewizard.webs.com

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