Rogue Likes

Originally it meant a game that you could complete and may be under an hour. When they released on later platforms, they did have this habit of adding things without realy considering the design implications of adding things to rogue. Open source is partly to blame as well, because it's quite easy for anyone to look at the source, design their own patch,. And games like nethack came out of a hack itself being modified. And the evolution of angband over the years has been a case of different people adding their own things. It's never chopping things up and rebalancing them. It's always a ad, scaling up, an up, no sompacte. O, just