Editing Roguelike (section)

== Typical definitions for Roguelikes ==
There is no formal definition of a roguelike. However, it can generally be thought of as any dungeon-crawl RPG that meets one or more of the following criteria:
: - is turn-based;
: - features randomly ("procedurally") generated levels;
: - features permadeath
: - uses ASCII or otherwise primitive graphics

Whether the definition of "Roguelike" ''absolutely requires'' that it be turn-based is a source of much [[Skub]]. For the purposes of this article, we'll call them "Realtime Roguelikes", although some people call such games "Roguelites" (note the 't' in place of the 'k'); but since nobody seems to agree on what "Roguelite" ''actually'' means (as there are quite a lot of games nowadays that are "not quite Roguelike"), we can't use it to classify anything with.

''[[Diablo]]'' was inspired by ''NetHack'' and is a borderline Roguelike, but most noobs misuse Roguelike as a synonym for "Diablo-clone", not knowing what they are missing.