I love nethack
I love nethack and have for years but it can’t seem to start lately. It just crashes immediately. I miss it. ♡ Phenomenal game and app. Just stopped working for me.
Edit: reinstalled. Works like a charm. Bless the people who keep this game alive.
Edit: reinstalled. Works like a charm. Bless the people who keep this game alive.
Super old, super hard, super fun.
There is so much to learn in this game, from dealing with countless monsters to finding all sorts of strategies to find the Amulet of Yendor and win the game, there is plenty to keep you coming back for more, who knows when I and others will beat it, but with a classic roguelike such as this, it will never get boring.
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Very solid but needs better iPad Magic Keyboard support
A lot of care has gone into this port but it doesn’t seem to support the Magic Keyboard on iPadOS. It would play great if you could use the Magic Keyboard and not have to tap the screen when prompts come up.
Best game on iOS
the best value for money in terms of hours of enjoyment (well... +/- inf really, but even then).
This game put the fear of IRL death back in me cause what if I never ascend. Trying to get it done after disallowing myself the wiki, and I'm very glad to've found this. The guys who played this game back in the day are gods of gaming, every game dev company making fantasy should give the option to play a few days of nethack tournament every year instead of working to inspire creativity and fun, seriously. Love this game.
This game put the fear of IRL death back in me cause what if I never ascend. Trying to get it done after disallowing myself the wiki, and I'm very glad to've found this. The guys who played this game back in the day are gods of gaming, every game dev company making fantasy should give the option to play a few days of nethack tournament every year instead of working to inspire creativity and fun, seriously. Love this game.
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Disappointing
To be fair, I haven’t played that long, but so far I’ve encountered two problems: (1) a lack of customization— you can’t choose your character name (and the name it assigns your character isn’t even a name, it’s “Mobile User”, which completely kills immersion), and there’s no apparent equivalent for the config file on desktop that lets you set certain default things like your preferred pet (and their name), the name of the custom fruit, and autopickup settings; and (2) incompatibility with a Bluetooth keyboard.
One could argue that these are minor things that aren’t relevant to the game as a whole. However, they interfere with the experience for me, so I think I’ll stick to playing on desktop until / unless they get resolved.
One could argue that these are minor things that aren’t relevant to the game as a whole. However, they interfere with the experience for me, so I think I’ll stick to playing on desktop until / unless they get resolved.
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FIXED!?!
Ok so I started playing on this app a year and a half ago and the version then was quite buggy. I had an Archaeologist that got to the Astral Plane before the whole game glitched out and became unplayable and unrecoverable. I put it down for a good while, but of course I couldn’t resist picking it back up again. But now in the past month, with their new updates from 3.4.3 to 3.6.7, I have fully ascended 2 different characters, an Arc and a Priest. No noticeable or game damaging bugs can be spoken of from my runs. If that’s the case, this may now be the best app on here. Spread the word.
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amazing game
thank you for the updates , i really love this game and this port is really easy to use and play with!!
Destroyer of lives
Incredible - reliable, immersive, aesthetically pleasing port of the enduring classic. The experience is as deep and rich as you have time to devote to playing it (which in my experience grows to the expense of everything else in your world). Takes a bit to work out the configuration tools are in the iPhone settings options but otherwise well worth the learning curve.
**** Update - the update to this venerable app is the best thing to happen in 2023 so far!
**** Update - the update to this venerable app is the best thing to happen in 2023 so far!
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Deep Rogue-like, an iOS must-have
If you are in need of an offline game for mobile, look no further. This distribution of NetHack has been my go-to mobile game for four years now. I recommend it to everyone in my life, and it has become a proven path into the Rogue-like genre for friends and family.
Love that it introduced me to the game, but frustrated with bugs
As other have mentioned, you’ll frequently get your game file wiped for various reasons. It seems to happen randomly upon switching to another app and switching back, or after opening the app again. I’m frustrated because I had a really awesome game where I had acquired a nice weapon from my god and I had gotten quite far (for me at least. Level 9). But suddenly, all gone with no idea how to recover it. I’m trying to play smarter after picking the game back up, so there’s now a greater chance that these kinds of crashes/wipes occur since I get a bit farther.
I can’t be too bummed out because the base game is so incredible. I will try playing on some of the public servers instead for a more reliable experience. The iPhone port has gotten me through many flights, bus rides, boring meetings, and waiting rooms. There’s so much depth and I love how the craziest stuff can happen to you. It becomes really memorable when you get randomly smote by a god or you die on the quest to locate your pet that fell through a trap door. I just with the iPhone port were less buggy because I’d rather have touch controls than get used to vi-key.
I can’t be too bummed out because the base game is so incredible. I will try playing on some of the public servers instead for a more reliable experience. The iPhone port has gotten me through many flights, bus rides, boring meetings, and waiting rooms. There’s so much depth and I love how the craziest stuff can happen to you. It becomes really memorable when you get randomly smote by a god or you die on the quest to locate your pet that fell through a trap door. I just with the iPhone port were less buggy because I’d rather have touch controls than get used to vi-key.
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