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Looking for an essential reading list!

A topic by Jack Turps created Feb 19, 2026 Views: 184 Replies: 4
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Hey everyone!

This’ll be my first 7DRL challenge and I’m a little conscious that I don’t have much experience playing roguelikes (I’m mostly familiar with Qud and Michael Brough’s work). I’d love to cram a little before the exam, does anyone have recommendations for what they consider to be “essential” entries in the canon? I’d especially love to try some games from previous 7DRL challenges.

Appreciate any pointers, thank you!!

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For a cram, I’d call Brogue and Infra Arcana a good place to start

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Thank you! These look really cool, I'll dig into them this week.

Not sure what language you plan to write in but you can create an aracde-like roguelike in about a day with this tutorial: https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/

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Thanks for letting me know about this, looks very handy! I've been exploring pico-8 lately and might use it again for this jam, but you can never have too many tools in the belt 😎