The flood of rouge-like Dungeon crawlers simply doesn't stop! Rogue is known as one of the oldest role playing games that was originally programmed at the University of Berkeley around 1980. This first version was a round-based dungeon crawler using ASCII-graphics which received numerous successors and ports to other platforms. With 'Rogue' (1986) and 'Rougue II - Return to the Dungeon' (1988), even the Atari ST got two colorful, GEM-based versions. The huge impact the game had is reflected by the fact that a whole RPG genre was named after it: 'rougue-like'. These rougue-like games recently experienced a renaissance, some would say inflation, not only in the Atari ST, but on other platforms as well. A few years ago, the Atari ST saw the release of a colorful teaser of 'Catacombs' by Shaoth and Dma-Sc, looking extremely promising. In 2024, the multi-platform 'Tenebra' and 'Tenebra 2' also received monochrome ports to our grey machines.
The latest final release of a rogue-like game for the Atari ST is called '0mira' (Nullmira). You might have heard of this before, because previews and test versions were already publicly available. However, at the end of February 2025, the maker announced that the testing phase is over and the release state has been reached.
0mira was created by a single German Atari enthusiast nicknamed 'Klaas' over a period of 7 years. It was completely coded in Omikron Basic 3.03 and only runs in high resolution. The game is completely held in German, with only a short tutorial in English language available. It needs an ST/STE/Falcon with at least 1MB to RAM.
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