ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)

Honestly a great game. Brutal at times, like any good roguelike, and sometimes RNG will screw you over, but if you're willing to be patient and learn from your deaths, it's definitely possible to improve and survive a bit further. Could use some quality-of-life improvements: - keyboard mapping should be easy to change in game, especially when you have commands that require typing a colon before quickly hitting a letter-- but then you also have commands that are [Ctrl + letter] that do different things - if you accidentally set foot in a dungeon you didn't mean to, i.e. one that's vastly over-leveled for your character, and a monster spawned right next to you, you should be able to quickly nope back out without the monster's "vicious attacks" blocking you (especially when it hasn't even attacked yet) - make the Caverns of Chaos-- the main dungeon of the game-- stand out more on the world map, or have NPCs offer clearer directions than "it's on the other side of those mountains" because I swear there's like ten other dungeons it could be from those directions - also would be nice if the main shopkeeper in the starting village offered at least a few lightweight food options more reliably-- it doesn't have to be a ton, but it's disproportionately likely to offer the 200-stone ration compared to more practical options-- by the point in the game when you're getting ready to stock up on food for a long overworld journey, it's unlikely most characters can haul those around without suffering encumbrance penalties The core of the game itself, though, is challenging but fun. Be patient, make good use of the Tactics command (Coward is super-helpful when you need to get away!), and don't get too attached to any one particular character. There might be some bugs, and it's slightly annoying how every time I close the game it complains about not being able to save files (which is weird because it definitely keeps track of my saved games and lets me start up again without issue), but it's only crashed on me once. I'd recommend it if you're into roguelikes.

One of the definitive games of the entire roguelike genre (along with Rogue, Angband and Nethack) back in the era when the word was much more precise than it is nowadays and meant simply 'randomized dungeon crawler with permadeath'. Also, the only one of the original four that's still very much playable, the others being very dated and/or not having aged well. In 2026 ADOM is just as fun and challenging as it was 30 years ago. Replayable, too - I can pick it up again after a long hiatus and it's like hardly any time has passed. I expect it to remain one of my favorite games for the rest of my life.

yes

Gameplay [8/10] Graphics [2/10] Music [6/10] Replay Potential [10/10] "It" Factor [9/10] Total Score [7.0/10] 5.0 hours in. That’s enough time to die to a hostile kitten, try to eat an unidentified corpse that gave me instant terminal corruption, and realize I still haven’t left the tutorial village. If you think *Dark Souls* is too casual, grab ADOM. This game doesn't have a learning curve; it has a sheer, frictionless cliff face that mocks your lack of skill while simultaneously demanding you memorize the dietary implications of every monster type. The visuals are a love letter to the 1990s, assuming that love letter was written on a napkin and then microwaved. Seriously, I spent my first two hours just figuring out how to tell my character to ‘put the scroll down.’ The only reason the Replay Potential score is 10/10 is because you rage-quit so hard that your last save file probably needs therapy. Absolute peak roguelike pain. If you don't instantly know what 'KP' means, you're not ready. Git gud, scrubs. 7/10.

需要中文 没文化 玩起来真玩不明白

I've played this game for closed to 30 years now. And I'm still playing it.

Has a bug that causes stuttering every 2 seconds. This bug has existed for over a year based on complaints. Devs apparently don't care about fixing the game. No, ASCII mode does not fix it, stop telling people this, nobody cares that you use ASCII mode to mask the terrible optimization.

Clunky UI, monotonous level design. As you can imagine it did not hook me. I'm back playing TOME & Rogue Fable.

I’ve played tons of traditional roguelikes, but I just couldn’t get into this one. It’s buggy, clunky, lacks QoL features and has a bunch of design decisions that makes the experience completely unfun, at least for me. The devs also seem kind of notorious for abandoning their projects. If you really want to play this, just go with the free original version.

Great roguelike. Very knowledge based game, requires you to learn a lot to overcome the difficulty.