I'm not alone! 

Never ascended once. Somewhere in the late midgame the inventory juggling becomes just too complicated and it feels like the last few turns of Civilization 4.

Tried fiqhack but it flakes on me a lot, can't figure the reason, won't find assets et c. I do dynahack now but it changes too much for my taste, and it doesn't help the inventory problem when you have hundreds of items and try to make sense of it all.

And yet 30 years on something about it still tickles me pickle.

Angband for me, high five my fellow older roguelike enjoyer

I sometimes play "Beneath Apple Manor" (1978) and similar-era games via Apple emulator. Believe it or not, it's a "roguelike" that actually predated Epyx' Rogue (1980) and NetHack (1987).

But I'm also thankful that Epyx' Rogue happened to become used for the overall genre name. "BeneathAppleManorLike" is just too much of a mouthful!

Hell yes!! And you can play it on the nethack site through terminal. So awesome. And watch others play it too

Is it worth getting into it now? Without rose tinted glasses I mean. Or are there better alternatives? (Shattered Pixel Dungeon for example). I have tried Shattered Pixel but found it too nonsensical, having to learn tons of mechanics that don't seem to make sense other than trial and error and huge RNG (which I am not a fan of).