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roguelikes and lemmy
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The definition isn't an absolutely hard one, but I think that DCSS would be pretty uncontroversially a roguelike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
See the section on "Berlin Interpretation", which is one commonly-used set of factors to determine whether something is a roguelike.
I have a love/hate with the Berlin Interpretation. While I certainly prefer my RLs that way, I think some times it gets used to gatekeep excellent RLs kind of on the fringe of the interpretation.
oh wow that's more restrictive than I thought it was
Yeah, I can see the turnbased requirement there