Frequently Asked Questions

Rogue is a dungeon crawling game develooped around 1980 by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. This project remasters Rogue, bringing it up 2025 without changing the gameplay of the original versions. This project takes the original Rogue and places it into a modern engine where features that weren't developed originally were added.

The game as-is is 100% playable today, minus any undiscovered bugs. I'm releasing this project initially as early access because I need time to finish implementing support for more versions, more themes, and more languages.

You can contact support by emailing me at foreheadwallsoftware "at" gmail "dot" com.

Yes Linux, Windows, MacOS, and the Steamdeck are all natively supported.

Yes Linux, Windows, and MacOS all contain more than one binary specifically for this purpose.
Each platform contains two binaries, one for normal window play and one for that platform's terminal.

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Toggle fullscreen with F11 or resizing the window as you see fit.

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Version 5.4.4 has been faithfully embedded into the engine as a test of the technology, migrating the code to use the engine developed to run the game but leaving all the gameplay code the as-was to preserve the same gameplay experience. It is recommended to play 6.0.0 if your are a new player.

Version 6.0.0 is the new version with some bug fixes and item/monster balancing code. It is recommended to play 6.0.0 if your are a new player.

Within the "Start a New Game" menu you can select which version of Rogue to play.

More versions to come soon!

Yes you can!

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In the original Rogue you could see atmost one message from your combat log. In the remaster, you can see however many messages you want as well as scroll up and down using page up / page down.

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Enjoy an overview of your character at point during the game, along with custom ASCII art.

In the original Rogue it wasn't possible to influence the seed. In the remastered version you and your friends can all play the same dungeon using this feature.

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By default the game limits the framerate to 30 frames per second. Setting the maximum framerate can be done by navigating to the options menu, press F9 from anywhere in the game to jump directly to the options menu.

Once there, you will find a dropdown menu to select your maximum framerate. If you want to see your framerate in realtime there's a checkbox you can enable as well within the options menu. Once enabled, at the bottom of your screen you will see your framerate in realtime, over the maximum you set in the dropdown menu. To the right you will see a breakdown of how much time your CPU spends processing the game vs sleeping per frame. The more time your CPU spends sleeping the better.

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