Noun
roguelike (plural roguelikes)
(video games) 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.
Played from a top-down perspective, this is a roguelike in its purest form. Source: Internet
Most reviewers agree that Ancient Domains of Mystery may be very hard to play for beginners due to the deletion of savefiles, which is uncommon for games outside the roguelike genre. Source: Internet
Game Rant talks to Flying Oak Games' co-founder Thomas Altenburger, director on ScourgeBringer, about the newly-released roguelike platformer. Source: Internet
They’re basically trapped in a roguelike, the oh-so popular and increasingly nebulous subgenre embraced by independent game developers. Source: Internet
Indie developers began to incorporate roguelike elements into genres not normally associated with roguelikes, creating games that would form the basis of this new subgenre. Source: Internet
US Gamer further identified games they consider edge cases of being roguelikes or roguelike-likes, as they are inspired by Rogue, and "that stray a bit further from the genre but still manage to scratch the same itch as a great roguelike". Source: Internet