Slash'EM

Slash'EM is an expanded variant of the classic roguelike NetHack, adding new monsters, items, classes, locations and gameplay possibilities to an already famously complex dungeon adventure. Players create a character, explore procedurally generated environments, fight creatures, discover equipment and attempt to survive long enough to accomplish their ultimate objective. The game offers an enormous amount of depth, with interactions between objects, monsters and abilities that can produce wonderfully unexpected situations. Death is permanent, naturally, because apparently the dungeon designers felt that saving progress would be too generous. The ASCII presentation may look intimidating at first, but it allows the underlying systems to shine. Slash'EM is best approached patiently, especially if you enjoy games where learning from spectacular mistakes is practically part of the tutorial.