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Rogue

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First release
1980
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Strategy · Fantasy
Platforms
Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, Mac, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Amiga, PDP-11, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari ST/STE, Atari 8-bit, PC-8800 Series

Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content.

Also known as DOSBox.exe, Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom

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Release dates
PDP-11
1980
DOS
1984
Mac
1985
All 12 release dates
PC-8800 Series
Jan 1986
Amiga
1986
TRS-80 Color Computer
1986
Atari ST/STE
1986
Amstrad CPC
1988
ZX Spectrum
1988
Commodore C64/128/MAX
1988
Atari 8-bit
1988
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 20, 2020
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text, Bird view / Isometric
Keywords
orcs, magic, turn-based, roguelike, procedural generation
… All 23, permadeath, ascii, backtracking, traps, snake, trolls, leveling up, bow and arrow, goblins, randomly generated dungeons, centaurs, single-screen level, potion, secret area, yeti, dart, disorientation, real time game clock
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  • Englishinterface
IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026