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KeeperRL is an interesting, and open source roguelike with RPG elements that is now on Steam. The code is open source, but the graphical version is not.

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It's an interesting way to fund development, and we covered the game a few times before. It's currently in Early Access, so it's not fully finished.

It was funded on IndieGoGo back in May of last year, so it's good to see it's alive and well!

About the game (Official)
KeeperRL is an ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil wizard and study the methods of black magic. Equip your minions and explore the world, murder innocent villagers and burn their homes. Build your dungeon, lay traps and prepare for an assault of angry heroes.

When you control your minions the game changes into a classic roguelike, with turn-based and very tactical combat. You can also play as an adventurer and assault dungeons made by you or other players.

You can find the source code on github which gives you the ASCII version, and the Steam page for the graphical version here. For the DRM free fans among us you can also grab it from Itch.io.

If anyone has spent some time with it, be sure to let us know what it's like in the comments.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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xavi Apr 6, 2015
This game is great, deep, difficult, funny and free software.

I have >200 hours and FTL and now I think my time will shift to KeeperRL.

If you like to learn stuff every time you play, try it!
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