Roguelikes, specifically the
Mystery Dungeon variety of the kind made by Chunsoft (and roguelikes made in the style of Chunsoft's
Mystery Dungeon game), are booming. The list currently includes three DS
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, two
Izunas, Shiren the Wanderer, Tao's Adventure, and
homebrew games including
Powder and
Nethack. That's a
lot of random dungeons.
Roguelikes are a very strange genre: death as an essential part of gameplay, and
extreme difficulty in general, are unusual for the DS, and things like random dungeons seem archaic at first. If you've gotten into one of these, were you always a
Mystery Dungeon fan? Or did the explosion of
Mystery Dungeon games on the DS get you interested?
