One of the first few followers in the footsteps of Rogue. If you like rougelikes and are interested in their history, Nethack is cool and you should try it. The key, as with most rougelikes, is to minimize random chance. This ultimately makes Nethack feel like a long series of logic puzzles, as you rub all the items in your inventory together, seeing how they react, and trying to rule out similar looking items that can kill you when you use them. If this sounds annoying, when you get tired of banging your head against the game trying to figure things out for yourself, you can look up a guide and breeze right through it. There’s a handful of tricks to each stratum of the dungeon and the dungeon itself, and if you keep a window open with a list of these tips, Nethack becomes much, much less intimidating.