Delve - A Roguelike CRPG
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
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 0.4.x
Note: 0.4.2 fixes a number bugs and also brings a much more readable and usable inventory menu!
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.
There is much more content since 0.3 and a big changes is that instead of one large dungeon, the player will journey though several smaller dungeons as part of their quest. The first two dungeons are done to some degree, although the first far more than the second.
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. It's source code is available here on GitHub.
There are builds for Windows and macOS (ARM and Intel). I believe it should build and run with only a little modification on linux if you have the dotnet development tools installed (and I have heard it works under Proton on linux too).
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
| Author | Dana |
| Genre | Role Playing |
| Tags | ascii, Roguelike |
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Development log
- November update31 days ago
- Delve 0.4.264 days ago
- Delve 0.4.069 days ago
- Current state of DelveSep 03, 2025
- v 0.3.3Mar 10, 2025
- Delve 0.3.2Mar 04, 2025
- Delve 0.3.x -- what's next?Feb 27, 2025



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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!