Delve - A Roguelike CRPG
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Delve is a hobby RPG I have been working on for fun. Direct inspirations include nethack, various flavours of Angband, brogue, and honestly whatever I happen to be playing, watching or reading while working on it...
Notes for 0.5.x
0.5.4: More polish, some bug fixes. And: emergency doors.
0.5.3: Fixes a few more bugs including where movement keys weren't working in various menus, a bit of polish here and there and also adds a mysterious new magic item: an emergency door!
0.5.2: I've fixed a couple bugs and added the ability to remap keys for those who don't like the default command layout!
0.5.1: This update fixes a some minor bugs, including numpad controls not working on mac and linux, as well as the more serious bug that viewing messages from the Game Over screen was hanging the game.
Delve is still very much in an incomplete stage but the early stages should give a good idea of the kind of game I want to make.
0.5 brings a bunch of new stuff to delve! New dungeons, more monsters and treasure, and more importantly: a way to actually win the game! (Or at least a simple version of the end game -- I plan to expand on it).
For version 0.6, I'm going to focus on character progression and builds and such. My ideas and implementation have been kind of nebulous up to now but now it's time to firm them up.
In other big news, I also have a linux build for the game. There are some caveats: I am not a linux guy and am not very familiar with the space, but I have build the game as an app image and it seems to run on the Mint linux machine I set up... If you are a linux player having troubles, please let me know. I have heard that the windows version also runs via Proton.
I'd love some feedback on how the game feels so far, and of course will welcome any bug reports.
If you have played nethack or Angband, you should find it fairly familiar but there is also a brief tutorial to help you learn the basics of the game's commands.
Delve is an open source game released under the Creative Commons CC0 license. As always, its source code is available here on GitHub.
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Development log
- Delve 0.5.320 days ago
- Delve 0.5.225 days ago
- Version 0.5.127 days ago
- November update93 days ago
- Delve 0.4.2Oct 25, 2025
- Delve 0.4.0Oct 19, 2025
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Lovely classic-style game, I've only played a little but I'm looking forward to putting more hours into it.
The linux build mostly works fine on an actual system, but it doesn't recognize numpad inputs for whatever reason.
ah thanks! I’m such a vi-keys guys i forget to test the numpad 😅 I’ll be able to fix it over the next couple days
Awesome. Downloaded. Hopefully I'll get the chance to try it out soon. Reguardless, good luck with development.
Ah nice! Good luck, have fun as the youth say!
Sorry for not coming back sooner, my apologies. I tried to execute the exe under Wine but throws a .net error. I have to further explore the web for solutions as how to run it on linux.
Ah drat! One of these days I'll figure out how to get a linux VM going and do a proper build of it
Delayed answer, my bad. That would be very much a nice thing. I do play a number of RLs under Wine, I'm bummed as to why it's giving me an error while running your Delve. Actually I do even play my own variant that way, since I'm quite new to linux and still don't know how to compile source to get it running natively on it . So in the meanwhile I still edit/write code in vs2022. Big kudos on your advances. See u on bsky.
If you put the code up on Github you can use Github Actions to build on various targets for free.
Oh interesting -- I do have it github but I've never used Github Actions
Hello there! I`m so stoked to try your beautiful ASCII roguelike! Can`t wait! Thank you for your effort! Perhaps you have a spare minute to give my ZAng Variant a run, too? I will comment back here when I try your roguelike!! Thank you bunches!
Oh that's neat! I will check it out. I played SO MUCH Zanband in its 2.2.x and 2.3.x era!
Amazingly fun roguelike game! I really appreciate Dana uploading the code to GitHub. I am just learning C#, and working on a text-based console game, and seeing this code will really help me work through my own designs. A++. All the cookies. Thanks again. :)
Hey thanks!!
As it happens, later today I should be uploading 0.3.0 which has a fair bit of new stuff in it and a lot of bug fixes. (And probably new bugs)
For those interested, game works on linux using Proton.
Oh thanks!