you strike me as somehow who has a very specific angband fork preference. or maybe you’re more ToME4? i got the amulet of yendor once but never made it back. di... (opens in new tab)

With respect to Angband, I'm not actually a big fan of ASCII roguelikes. I prefer my roguelikes' game-state to be sight readable, and the high mechanical density of classic roguelikes pairs poorly with the low information density of ASCII graphics in this respect. I grant that hidden information has its place, but I've very rarely encountered an ASCII roguelike which navigates that tension between high-information-density mechanics and low-information-density visuals in a way that feels consi...