Dwarf Fortress

[KaoTiK]

I've not played the Doom RL, but they're basically light RPGs with a focus on dungeon crawling (versus story telling). The upside to the primitive graphics is their flexibility -- hundreds of monsters, dozens of characters races and classes, near limitless amount of items, locations, etc. There's just an insane amount of variety when compare to a traditional RPG.

To get a better idea, click here for a pretty detailed account of one player's game of Nethack

Ah, I understand. I had no idea these games existed until this thread, then again, the first games I got into were dosshell games. I loved that one where the monkeys throw bananas at eachother, Scorched Earth style.

I might have been into these 'roguelikes' many a year ago, but I moved out of that phase years ago.