roguelike

• rogue-like, Rogue-like

From Rogue +‎ -like, after the 1980 computer game Rogue, which introduced the genre.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊɡlaɪk/

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roguelike (plural roguelikes)

1. (video games) 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.^[1]
   • I “Like-Like” Roguelikes (Because Love Should Never Be So Cruel), 2011

     If you haven’t played a ‘roguelike’ before, it’s basically what happens when you take a twitchy hack-and-slash game like Diablo and make it boring, confusing, and frustrating.

• hacklike

• roguelike-like
• rogue-lite