Roguelike

A role-playing game genre built around procedurally generated environments, turn-based play, and permanent character death. Its traditional form emphasizes exploration, resource management, and tactical combat.

Procedural generation: The creation of data or content by algorithms rather than direct manual design. Algorithms produce varied dungeon layouts and encounters across separate runs.
Rogue (video game): A 1980 dungeon-crawling computer game that generated levels and ended a character's run upon death. Its design established the template from which the genre takes its name.
Roguelite: A game-design label for games that borrow roguelike features while relaxing some traditional conventions. Roguelites often retain procedural runs but allow lasting upgrades or real-time action.
The Binding of Isaac: An action game series featuring procedurally varied runs, collectible items, and repeated attempts after death. It applies roguelike run structure to fast, real-time combat.
Turn-based tactics: A style of combat in which participants act in discrete turns and choose actions strategically. Discrete turns let players evaluate danger and plan each move.
UNIX: A multiuser operating system developed at Bell Labs beginning in the late 1960s. Rogue was developed for UNIX systems and circulated through their academic networks.
NetHack: A 1987 dungeon-crawling game known for extensive interactions, hidden rules, and persistent development. It exemplifies a traditional roguelike with turn-based movement and permanent death.
Spelunky: A platform game series built around dangerous, procedurally generated underground expeditions. It translates procedural risk and repeated runs into platforming.
Permadeath: A game rule in which a character's death permanently ends that character's current progression. A run ends with death, making risks and resource use consequential.
Hack (video game): A 1980s dungeon-crawling computer game that expanded on Rogue with richer systems and content. Hack helped carry Rogue's design into a wider family of games.

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