Mechanic map
Roguelikes and roguelites
A wide author's map of classic turn-based roguelikes, modern roguelites and hybrids. Families describe options for organizing a run, and not mandatory features of the genre. Constant metaprogression is not found in all roguelikes. Related systems can be combined; the list is not a closed standard.
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1Run structureOverview and example ↗The rules define the boundaries of the attempt, the sequence of tests and the conditions for its completion.13
Variants and applications
- Individual attempts: the passage is organized into independent runs
- Reset state: character, equipment or world returns to starting conditions
- Sequence of floors, rooms, waves or acts
- Forks in the passage: the player chooses the next section
- Midterm Tests: Elites, Mini-Bosses, Act Bosses
- Final Challenge: Completes a normal run
- Alternative Victory Conditions: Different Goals for the Same Playthrough
- Secret continuation: additional stages after the normal ending
- Returning with loot: it is necessary not only to get the goal, but also to get out
- Early exit: completing an attempt while saving part of the result
- Looping: replaying stages with increasing conditions
- Infinite continuation: game until inevitable defeat
- Multiple expeditions within one campaign
2Death, defeat and aftermathOverview and example ↗Failure determines what is lost, what is retained, and what new conditions the next attempt will gain.14
Variants and applications
- Permadeath: final character demise
- Complete loss of run build
- Partial loss: only part of the items, money or experience disappears
- Limited Lives
- One-time death prevention
- Resurrection per resource or penalty
- Near-death state: the opportunity to escape before final death
- Falling with the opportunity to rise: independently or with the help of an ally
- Returning to the place of death for a lost resource
- Saving pre-sent loot
- Inheritance of property or features to the next hero
- Continuing the campaign after the death of an individual squad member
- Change of the world due to defeat
- Encountering the remains or ghost of a previous character
3Starting conditionsOverview and example ↗The starting hero, equipment and choice before the start set the initial possibilities of the run.13
Variants and applications
- Class selection: different starting actions and restrictions
- Choice of species, race or origin
- Character selection with unique mechanics
- Choosing a starting weapon
- Selecting a starting deck, unit, ship, or other build media
- Selecting a starting relic or passive effect
- Distribution of initial characteristics
- Random starting items
- Random positive and negative traits
- Starting bonus in exchange for disadvantage
- Preparing consumables before the expedition
- Buying Starter Benefits on a Limited Budget
- Pre-configuring the available reward pool
4Procedural generationOverview and example ↗Algorithms create areas, encounters, and rewards while maintaining specified limits and variability.15
Variants and applications
- Generating Level Geometry
- Assembling levels from pre-created modules
- Random connection of rooms and passages
- Generating a route map
- Rearranging biomes or stage options
- Random placement of enemies
- Random composition of enemy groups
- Random placement of items and resources
- Generating characteristics and properties of items
- Random shops, altars and service rooms
- Random events and their sequences
- Selecting bosses from the general pool
- Modifiers for individual rooms, floors or the entire run
- Procedural tasks and reward conditions
- Combination of permanent landmarks with variable areas
5Route and access to areasOverview and example ↗The player chooses a direction and fulfills the conditions for access to the following areas of the world.14
Variants and applications
- Choosing a safe or dangerous path
- Selecting the next reward via route
- Planning a chain of future visits
- Unidirectional transitions: impossible to return
- Free return to previous floors
- Shortcuts and detours
- Unlockable Transitions
- Doors and areas that require a key
- Passages requiring ability or tool
- Entrance for a fee with health, money or item
- Mutually exclusive paths
- Optional Hazardous Areas
- Secret floors and alternate biomes
- Conditions for access to the special ending
6Exploration and informationOverview and example ↗Surveying the world reveals information, and limited visibility and uncertainty influence decisions.15
Variants and applications
- Fog of War: Unexplored Areas Hidden
- Limited viewing range
- Line of sight: obstacles block objects
- Lighting and light sources
- Finding hidden doors and traps
- Hidden rooms and destructible passages
- Scouting the next room or section of the route
- Detection of opponents by sound and other traces
- Cards revealing part of the level
- Magically detect creatures, objects, or dangers
- Hidden characteristics of opponents
- Studying enemies through inspection or interaction
- Pre-demonstrated enemy intentions
- Incomplete information about the consequences of a choice
- Player knowledge that retains value between attempts
7Time and turn orderOverview and example ↗The order of turns, duration of actions, and continuous time determine when you can influence the world.14
Variants and applications
- Turn-based movement: the world responds to the player's actions
- Different costs of actions over time
- Initiative and turn order
- Speed that allows you to act more often than the enemy
- Action points per turn
- General player phase and separate enemy phase
- Simultaneous execution of pre-selected actions
- Real time combat
- Tactical pause for giving orders
- Actions in a given rhythm
- Recharging abilities by time or number of moves
- Arrested and Prepared Actions
- Waiting as a complete action
- Limited rollback or time rewind
8Pressure and pacingOverview and example ↗Timers, stalking, and increasing threat create pressure and affect the pace of decision making.11
Variants and applications
- Total time limit for the run
- Limit of moves per stage or task
- Increasing difficulty over time
- Increased danger when staying in place for a long time
- A pursuing enemy or moving threat
- Narrowing the safe area
- Depletion of resources, forcing you to move on
- Reinforcements for delay
- Fast Completion Rewards
- Choosing between additional loot collection and early transition
- Increasing threat from player actions
9Movement and spatial restrictionsOverview and example ↗The modes of movement and the geometry of space determine the achievable positions and the cost of movement.16
Variants and applications
- Movement across cells
- Free movement
- Different rules for diagonal movement
- Occupying cells and blocking passages with creatures
- Jerk
- Roll
- Jump and double jump
- Flight, levitation and hovering
- Teleportation
- Hook and surface pull
- Climbing and moving along walls
- Swimming and diving
- Traveling by vehicle or on horseback
- Inertia and slip
- Move through enemies or obstacles
- Changing the speed and cost of movement on different surfaces
10MeleeOverview and example ↗Melee attacks require choosing a position, moment and method of influencing the enemy.15
Variants and applications
- Attack when moving into an enemy-occupied cell
- Light and heavy attacks
- Charged Strikes
- Streaks and combos
- Different stances and battle modes
- Attacks by direction or sector
- Hit multiple targets
- Increased weapon range
- Backstabs and positional bonuses
- Counterattacks
- Attacks after dodging, jumping or dashing
- Interrupting the preparation of someone else's attack
- Finishings when the condition is met
- Two-weapon combat
- Switching weapons as part of a combat sequence
11Ranged combat and projectilesOverview and example ↗Ranged attacks link aiming, projectile properties, and ammo consumption to available targets.20
Variants and applications
- Manual aiming
- Automatic target selection
- Shooting in the selected direction
- Shooting only when stopped
- Limited Ammo
- Weapon magazine and reloading
- Weapon overheating
- Loading a shot
- Spread and recoil
- Homing
- Penetration of targets
- Ricochet from walls and opponents
- Projectile separation
- Returning projectiles
- Orbital missiles and defense satellites
- Beam weapon
- Area attacks and explosions
- Projectile control after firing
- Reflecting or destroying enemy projectiles
- Changing projectile properties using modifiers
12Defense and damage preventionOverview and example ↗The player reduces threat through dodging, blocking, positioning, and temporary defensive states.16
Variants and applications
- Damage Reducing Armor
- Armor affecting hit probability
- Blocking attacks
- Directional Shield
- Parry with precise timing
- Probabilistic Evasion
- Motion invulnerability frames
- Brief invulnerability after taking damage
- Barrier or separate shield reserve
- Absorb one hit
- Resistances to certain types of damage
- Immunity to certain effects
- Redirect damage to an ally or resource
- Reflect damage to attacker
- Covers and breaking the attack line
- Limit the maximum damage from one hit
13Damage, status effects and controlOverview and example ↗Damage and condition rules change health, action capabilities, and control over the target.20
Variants and applications
- Different types of damage: physical, fire, electrical and others
- Vulnerabilities to certain types of attacks
- Critical hits
- Damage over time: poison, burning, bleeding
- Effect builds up until triggered
- Summing and updating state durations
- Slowdown
- Stun
- Freezing
- Immobilization
- Throwing and pulling
- Fear and forced flight
- Provocation and change of target
- Charm and passing to the other side
- Silence and ability ban
- Blinding and limitation of perception
- Confusion of control or direction of action
- Reduced performance and destruction of protection
- Tags that enhance follow-up
- Interaction of states with each other
14Enemies and bossesOverview and example ↗The behavior of enemies and the design of encounters define the threats that the player must respond to.18
Variants and applications
- Patrolling and player detection
- Different enemy roles: melee, marksman, support
- Coordination and mutual reinforcement of the group
- Telegraphing attacks
- Alternating predictable combat patterns
- Choosing attacks depending on the situation
- Elite versions of regular enemies
- Random enemy properties and affixes
- Summoning reinforcements
- Healing and reviving allies
- Adaptation to distance or player actions
- Multiple boss phases
- Destructible parts and individual targets on the boss's body
- Vulnerable windows between attacks
- Changing the arena during battle
- Task completion checks instead of just dealing damage
- Boss boost for violating conditions
- Secret and alternate versions of bosses
15Environment and system interactionsOverview and example ↗For example, in Noita, the physical simulation of materials and the interaction of fire, liquids, electricity and spells form a significant part of the gameplay. Description of the developers17
Variants and applications
- Destroyable walls and objects
- Moving objects and pushing blocks
- Traps that affect both the player and enemies
- Activation of traps by remote influence
- Fire and combustion spread
- Fluids, flooding and flow
- Gases, smoke and clouds
- Electrical conductivity of materials
- Freezing and melting
- Explosives and flammable substances
- Chemical reactions and transformation of materials
- Collapses and falling objects
- Fall and collision damage
- Contamination or alteration of the surface
- Using the environment to create new passages
- Friendly fire and mutual damage between opponents
- Chain reactions of several systems
Context and sources: Description of the developers
16Stealth and non-combat actionsOverview and example ↗Stealth and interactions outside of combat allow you to circumvent threats or solve problems through other actions.14
Variants and applications
- Discreet movement
- Noise that attracts enemies
- Camouflage and invisibility
- Distracting the enemy with an object or sound
- Sleeping and bypassing enemies
- Stealing items
- Picking locks
- Hacking devices and systems
- Disarming traps
- Negotiations instead of fighting
- Bribery and trade exchange
- Persuasion, intimidation and deception
- Performance checks in events
- Using an object to solve a problem alternatively
17Character development within the runOverview and example ↗Decisions within an attempt develop the characteristics and set of available actions of the character.15
Variants and applications
- Experience for actions and victories
- Level Up
- Selecting one upgrade from several
- Attribute Points Distribution
- Learning Active Abilities
- Gaining Passive Skills
- Skill trees with prerequisites
- Mutually exclusive specializations
- Skill development through use
- Increased Weapon Proficiency
- Mutations and body changes
- Transformation into another form
- Absorbing Opponents' Abilities
- Redistribution of previously invested points
- Temporary improvements for several battles or floors
18Build construction and synergiesOverview and example ↗Combinations of enhancements and constraints create specialization, cross-reinforcement, and build trade-offs.20
Variants and applications
- Accumulating copies of one effect
- Item Set Bonuses
- Bonuses for belonging to the general category
- Evolution of weapons when conditions are met
- Combining multiple abilities into a new one
- Converting one damage type to another
- Converting a resource or characteristic to another
- Effects on hit
- Critical Hit Effects
- Effects on Kill
- Effects when taking damage
- Effects when healing, moving or spending a resource
- Effects at the start and end of a turn
- Low Health Boost
- Gain when constraint is satisfied
- Gaining power during a fight or run
- Copying and retriggering effects
- Transferring effect between targets
- Dependence of the result on the order of operation
- Combinations that change the basic rules of action
19Items, loot and equipmentOverview and example ↗Found items change the character's abilities through loot properties and equipment conditions.16
Variants and applications
- Random loot drops
- Selecting a reward from several options
- Items of different rarity levels
- Random item characteristics
- Prefixes, suffixes and additional properties
- Unique items with a special rule
- Activated Items
- Passive Relics
- Disposable consumables
- Items with limited charges
- Different equipment slots
- Competition of items for one slot
- Equipment compatibility restrictions
- Items that grow with the character
- Items with an advantage and a built-in disadvantage
- Items that change available rewards or encounters
20Identification, blessings and cursesOverview and example ↗Identification, blessings and curses are presented in detail in the classic NetHack tradition. Official Guide11
Variants and applications
- Unknown effect of found item
- New link between appearance and effects in each run
- Recognition through use
- Identification by special action or consumable
- Indirect determination of properties based on observable characteristics
- Partial recognition of individual characteristics
- Hidden negative properties
- Blessed, Normal, and Cursed state of an item
- Inability to remove cursed equipment
- Removing curses and consecrating objects
- Changing the action of an item depending on its state
Context and sources: Official Guide
21Inventory and carrying capacityOverview and example ↗The limitations of carrying and organizing things force you to choose what to keep, use, or leave behind.13
Variants and applications
- Item limit
- Total weight limit
- Fines for overload
- Objects of different sizes and shapes
- Placing items on the inventory grid
- Rotating and stacking objects
- Bonuses for the proximity of objects
- Effects of the order or state of things
- Containers with special storage rules
- Limited fast slots
- Separate restrictions on consumables and equipment
- Caches for delayed use
- Throwing away or destroying items to free up space
22Creating and Modifying ItemsOverview and example ↗Materials and creation operations change objects, their properties and available uses.15
Variants and applications
- Crafting according to recipes
- Experimental mixing of ingredients
- Parsing items for materials
- Melting and processing
- Item Level Up
- Transfer of individual characteristics
- Adding and Removing Properties
- Inserting stones, runes and modules
- Combining identical items
- Merging different items
- Enchantment
- Repair and restoration of strength
- Recharging Magic Devices
- Limited outfit change points
- Risk of failure, destruction or deterioration when improving
23Constructing abilities and magicOverview and example ↗Components, forms and combination rules allow you to assemble your own abilities and spells.12
Variants and applications
- Assembling a spell from individual components
- Select delivery form: beam, projectile, area, contact
- Adding Modifiers to a Spell
- Setting the execution order of components
- A spell that triggers another spell
- Triggered by timer, target hit or death
- Magic Media Capacity Limit
- Balance of cost, speed and power
- Consumable and infinite spells
- Unstable magic and random side effects
- The danger of the player's own spells
- Programmable action sequences
24Resources and survivalOverview and example ↗Supplies, hunger, and other needs tie survival to route choice and resource expenditure.17
Variants and applications
- Health as a limited run resource
- Mana or ability energy
- Stamina for attacks and movement
- Hunger and nutrition
- Thirst
- Oxygen
- Fuel
- Light reserve
- Body temperature and environmental influences
- Fatigue and sleep
- Stress and sanity
- Radiation, contamination or damage
- Illnesses and long-term injuries
- Weapon and armor wear
- Deterioration of food and materials over time
- Resource consumption for transitions between areas
- Competition between different activities for one resource
25Healing and recoveryOverview and example ↗Restoration has conditions, costs and limitations that affect further risk.15
Variants and applications
- Consumable healing items
- Limited supply of healing charges
- Replenishment of treatment at special points
- Passive regeneration
- Recovery only outside of combat
- Heal for damage done
- Treatment for murders
- Recovering recently lost health through aggression
- Temporary health
- Maximum Health Increase
- Rest with time and supplies
- Choosing between treatment and improvement at rest
- Treatment at the expense of another resource or characteristic
- Recovery with the risk of a chance encounter
- Clearing negative states separately from treatment
26Economy and shopsOverview and example ↗Exchange, traders and prices allow you to turn resources into opportunities and choose the moment of purchase.18
Variants and applications
- Currency valid only within the run
- Several currencies with different purposes
- Buying and selling items
- Random assortment
- Paid assortment update
- Increasing cost of successive upgrades
- Fixing the item for the next visit
- Limited stock of goods
- Discounts and price changes
- Exchange item for item
- Interest on accumulated money
- Income for fulfilled conditions
- Credit, debt and obligatory payments
- Gambling machines and bets
- Purchasing services: treatment, identification, improvement
- Theft from a merchant with consequences
- Destruction of a store or conflict with its owner
- Money as a source of combat enhancement
27Risk and rewardOverview and example ↗An additional benefit is offered with the threat of loss, complication, or denial of another benefit.15
Variants and applications
- Extra challenge for extra reward
- Continuing after a safe exit point
- Payment for health benefits
- Paying for benefits with maximum health
- Getting cursed for a powerful item
- Temporary penalty for future gain
- Reward for fighting without taking damage
- Action Restriction Reward
- Contract to fulfill the condition in the following rooms
- Random event with multiple outcomes
- Choosing a guaranteed or probabilistic reward
- Accumulation of risk when reusing an object
- Sacrifice an Item, Ally, or Ability
- Trading immediate power for long-term gain
- Refusal of reward to change future conditions
28Randomness controlOverview and example ↗The player is given ways to change the distribution of outcomes, offers, and the degree of uncertainty.12
Variants and applications
- Transfer of proposed improvements
- Changing reward type
- Excluding items from future offers
- Increasing the likelihood of the desired category
- Guaranteed reward after fulfilling the condition
- Choose between several random results
- Preview your results before spending
- Changing Luck and Probabilities
- Cumulative guarantee after a series of failures
- Trading quantity of options for quality
- Limited Supply of Randomness Control Tokens
- Fixing part of a sentence and updating the rest
29Companions, summoning and squadOverview and example ↗Allies and summoned creatures add managed or stand-alone roles with their own resources.17
Variants and applications
- Constant companion
- Temporary Summoned Creatures
- Taming enemies
- Recruiting Squad Members
- Different roles and specializations of allies
- Equipment and development of each participant
- Formation and order of arrangement
- Direct commands or customization of behavior
- Switch controllable character
- General and individual resources
- Bonuses for squad composition
- Relationships, conflicts and compatibility of participants
- Morale and likelihood of fleeing
- Injuries, fatigue and the need for rotation
- Replacing the dead with new heroes
- Limit on the number of active calls
- Strengthening summoned creatures through a character build
30Religion, factions and reputationOverview and example ↗Relationships with gods and organizations link the hero's behavior to access, obligations, and rewards.12
Variants and applications
- Choosing a Patron or Faction
- Favor Accumulation
- Rewards for Preferred Actions
- Prohibitions and obligations
- Prayer as limited help
- Sacrifices
- Receiving gifts and special abilities
- Punishment for breaking the rules
- Change of patron with consequences
- Reputation that changes the attitude of creatures
- Access to special stores and routes through relationships
- Conflict of interests of several factions
31Metaprogression between runsOverview and example ↗Progress between attempts changes future possibilities; its presence and extent depend on the chosen roguelike model.16
Variants and applications
- Constantly improving performance
- Permanent upgrade tree
- Unlocking new characters
- Unlocking Weapons and Starter Kits
- Unlocking new items in the loot pool
- Discovering new abilities and development options
- Unlocking biomes, events and bosses
- Development of the central base
- The emergence of new services between runs
- Constant currency
- Upgrading individual weapons through mastery
- The following characters' inheritance bonuses
- Saving some characters or property
- Collections that provide in-game advantages
- Ability to disable previously opened content
- Prestige or resetting constant progress for new conditions
32Narrative and persistent worldOverview and example ↗Events in the run change history and the ongoing state of the world, or reveal new parts of the narrative.12
Variants and applications
- Plot development after each attempt
- New dialogues depending on the events of the run
- Relationships with characters between attempts
- Gifts and personal errands
- Quests that continue across multiple runs
- Carrying the Consequences of a Choice into Future Attempts
- Gradual change in central location
- Rebuilding the world piece by piece
- Gaining new opportunities through story decisions
- Multiple endings based on a combination of actions
- Mandatory re-wins to continue the story
- Keeping individual changes while updating the rest of the world
33Card roguelikesOverview and example ↗Selecting cards, building synergies, relics, and choosing a risky or safe route are directly included in the Slay the Spire device. Description of Mega Crit18
Variants and applications
- Building a deck during a run
- Drawing a random hand
- Energy for playing cards
- Reset and reshuffle the deck
- Removing weak or unwanted cards
- Map improvement
- Copying and converting maps
- Creating temporary maps in battle
- Keeping a card in your hand between turns
- Removing a card until the end of the battle after use
- Condition and curse cards littering the deck
- Conditional cost and conditional card effect
- Combinations in order of play
- Deck Top Manipulation
- View and select future selection
- Changing hand size
- Dependence of strength on the size and composition of the deck
- Deck Interaction with Constant Passive Effects
Context and sources: Description of Mega Crit
34Dice, combinations and scoringOverview and example ↗The combination of poker hands, wild card rule changes and strong interactions is at the heart of Balatro. Official description16
Variants and applications
- Dice rolls with different actions on the sides
- Limited transfers
- Capturing selected results
- Modifying and replacing faces
- Distribution of results between actions
- Collecting poker and other combinations
- Limited number of scoring attempts
- Discarding part of your hand for a new combination
- Base points and multipliers
- Dependence of the result on the order of application of bonuses
- Re-scoring of a combination element
- Modifiers for individual cards, symbols or dice
- Changing the rules for valid combinations
- Point threshold for passing the stage
- Special boss restriction on the way to score points
- Skip a stage for a separate reward
Context and sources: Official description
35Auto-battlers and wave survival gamesOverview and example ↗Automatic actions and sequential waves shift the player's choice towards movement, preparation and development of the build.14
Variants and applications
- Automatic execution of attacks
- Indirect combat control through movement
- Periodic appearance of waves of enemies
- Increase in wave density and strength
- Collecting dropped experience on the field
- Leveling up and stopping combat to select an upgrade
- Multiple simultaneous weapons
- Weapon evolution through a combination of upgrades
- Automatically apply a prepared build
- Arrangement of fighters before automatic battle
- Buying, selling and uniting fighters
- Bonuses for the number of fighters of the same category
- Prioritize goals or behaviors
- Solutions between waves on a limited budget
36Managing a ship, base or settlementOverview and example ↗In FTL, control of the crew, power supply, weapon targets and boarding is coupled with pause, random events and permanent defeat. Description of Subset Games15
Variants and applications
- Common build media: ship, train, fortress, settlement
- Installation of modules and systems
- Limited space for placement
- Distribution of energy between systems
- Assigning crew to work stations
- Damage to individual rooms and modules
- Accidents, fires and depressurization
- Repairs during battle
- Boarding and protection against invasion
- Production chains
- Random blueprints and building options
- Meeting the needs of the population
- Fulfilling orders for development and victory
- Depletion of territory and the need to complete the expedition
- Maintaining strategic development between individual settlements or campaigns
Context and sources: Description of Subset Games
37Other genre hybridsOverview and example ↗Systems in other genres change the shape of the run and the decision criteria, while maintaining a repeatable structure of attempts.14
Variants and applications
- Platform Challenges: Jumping Accuracy Within Variable Levels
- Metroidvania: Abilities open previously inaccessible areas
- Rhythmic actions: success depends on getting to the beat
- Pinball: Controlling the trajectory of the ball instead of attacking directly
- Aiming and bouncing physical objects
- Matching: collecting combinations on the playing field triggers actions
- Placement of tiles: the player himself creates the route or environment
- Rebuilding the rules of the field: changing cells and their interactions
- Building towers and defense lines
- Protection of a moving or stationary target
- Selecting and programming the behavior of automated agents
- Controlling vehicles with inertia and damaged parts
- Breeding and combining creatures during an attempt
- Creating a point-producing system instead of direct combat
38Cooperative and competitive systemsOverview and example ↗Participants distribute roles, resources and risks or compare results according to general rules.13
Variants and applications
- Completing one run together
- Shared or split lives
- Raising a fallen ally
- Transfer of items and resources
- Distribution of limited production
- Complementary roles
- Joint abilities and combined actions
- Consistent choice of route and reward
- Scaling meetings by number of players
- Possibility of harming an ally
- Race at the same initial state
- Asynchronous comparison of run results
- Confrontation of assemblies created in separate attempts
39Difficulty, challenges and resultsOverview and example ↗Modifiers, restrictions and scoring create additional goals on top of the normal completion of the run.16
Variants and applications
- Consecutive levels of increased difficulty
- Selectable complications before the start
- Difficulty budget: the player reaches the required amount of penalties
- Strengthening opponents after victories
- New rules at higher difficulty levels
- Daily test with general conditions
- run according to a given seed
- Random set of required modifiers
- Testing a specific character or weapon
- Walkthrough without individual types of actions
- Accounting for voluntarily observed restrictions
- Points for speed, loot and completed objectives
- Multiplier for a series of successful actions
- Result penalty for damage or losses received
- Streak of victories without defeats
- Separate conditions for record and regular victory
40Characteristic mechanics of classic roguelikes that are often overlookedOverview and example ↗Many of these interactions are documented in NetHack, including pets, remains of past characters, food, and voluntary behavior restrictions. NetHack Guide16
Variants and applications
- Eating the bodies of creatures with consequences for the character
- Obtaining resistances and other properties through food
- Food prohibitions and behavioral restrictions
- Transforming a character or enemy into another creature
- Transforming objects into other objects
- Desire: Obtaining an item through a special rare action
- Species Extermination: Eliminating a specific type of creature from the world
- Theft and use of player items by opponents
- Monsters picking up equipment lying on the ground
- Taming and feeding animals
- Using a pet to test item properties
- Special interactions with altars, fountains, graves and other objects
- Inscriptions on the surface with playful action
- Removal of levels and permanent damage to characteristics
- Deferred fatal conditions requiring specific rescue
- Preservation of bodies, things and dangers of the previous deceased hero in a new playthrough
Context and sources: Official Guide
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Sources and examples
Sources support particular techniques or methodology, not every family variant. Design examples and mechanic combinations are illustrative.
- Berlin Interpretation
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
- Description of the developers
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
- Official Guide
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
- Description of Mega Crit
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
- Official description
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
- Description of Subset Games
Primary source for individual techniques; does not confirm the entire author's classification.
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