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adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the roguelike genre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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adj
Alternative letter-case form of roguelike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of roguelike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
From Rogue (the name of a 1980 computer game which introduced the genre, from rogue) + -like.
Across languages
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