Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe thing about ADOM that always rubbed me the wrong way was the extreme and unfair randomness.

While recently I played and got pissed at the game for seemingily this. Up to the point of uninstalling it for time being (I also used to play long long time ago the original terminal version, never ever won, or probably went even went half way through game) I still disagree with that. It is not that bad, you have quite some controll, but the thing is it is kinda "grindy" as in to address all that stuff you kinda need to move slow, at least at certain points. (also food issiue you mention is nonsense/insexperience, jsut take class/race with food preservation and you should never run out of food, you can also buy food, and after certain point it becomes almost 100% non issue). In any case seems as time passed I become way less into grinding (otoh I play borderlands 2 and farm for stupid stuff...). But for roguelikes, bor me brogue is like THE best experience ever seen, even probably comparing to realtime big name things like diablo, as brogue has essentially no/nano ammounts of grind as mostly seems fairly fair.

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Long time lurker,
had to register sine no one mentoined this little great game I'm playing:
Age of Wonders 3 man that game is awesome, imo much more pleasant than civ while having similar vibe (and of course heroes inspiration too), much less "microing"/tideousness. of course there are things that are missing. Still was sad that no one mentioned this.

On the upside someone mentioned old doom, well gzdoom, this past year discovered doom modding comunity and man it is going strong. "old" doom - best doom :) mods maps, random map generator has all. People even manage to create "heroes"-like games, shootemups and other stuff in these open source doom engines... some people are just crazy in a good way.

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