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NetHack

NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting…

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Genre
Roguelike
Developer
The NetHack DevTeam
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows CE, OS/2, *BSD, System V, Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, VMS, Haiku, MS-DOS
Release
Initial 1.3d / 28 July 1987; 39 years ago (1987-07-28) Latest 5.0.0 / 2 May 2026; 3 months ago (2 May 2026)

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Gameplay

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Online support

NetHack Learning Environment

Legacy

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NetHack

Nodes140
Edges139
Triples191
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014286
Components1

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NetHack

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related to history · 43
NetHack → After, As, At, Berkeley, By, California, DevTeam, DevTeam's, Discworld, Eventually, Everything, Fenlason, Glenn Wichman, Hack, Internet, Izchak Miller, Janet Walz, Jay Fenlason, Jonathan Payne, July
related to Licensing, ports, and derivative ports · 22
NetHack → At, Bison, DevTeam, German, GNU, GNU General Public License, In, Japanese, License, Like, Mike Stephenson, NetHack General Public License, Open Source Initiative, Over, Richard Stallman, Slash'EM, Spanish, Stallman's, The, The NetHack General Public
related to Legacy · 18
NetHack → ADOM, Diablo, Digitally Downloaded, July, Minecraft, Modern Art's, Museum, Mystery Dungeon, Never Alone, Other, Play Before You Die, Polygon, September, Spelunky, The, The Gamer, Time, Video Games You Must
related to References · 17
NetHack → Andrew, Angband, August, Course, Craddock, David, Dungeon Hacks, How NetHack, ISBN, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Magrath, Other Roguelikes Changed, Press Start Press, Video Games, Wikisource-logo
related to NetHack Learning Environment · 16
NetHack → AI, Conference, Facebook's, Imperial College London, June, NetHack Learning Environment, NetHack's, Neural Information Processing Systems, New York University, None, Oxford, Team AutoAscend, The, The Facebook, University, University College London
related to External links · 15
NetHack → Download, Fame, GameSpy, Guide, Guidebook, Mazes, Menace, MobyGamesNetHack, NetHack TournamentNetHack, NetHack WikiNAO, NetHack's, Official, Official Binary, Source ReleasesInfo, SourceForge
related to Items and tools · 8
NetHack → All, For, NetHack's, Players, Rogue's, Starting, TEMOV, The
related to Blessings and curses · 7
NetHack → As, For, Generally, However, Such, The, Where
related to Dungeon levels · 6
NetHack → Later, Levels, Moria-style, NetHack's, Some, These
related to Interface · 6
NetHack → ASCII, DECgraphics, Extended ASCII, IBMgraphics, In, Interface

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
NetHackDeveloperThe NetHack DevTeam1.00infobox
NetHackGenreRoguelike1.00infobox
NetHackPlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows CE, OS/2, *BSD, System V, Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, VMS, Haiku, MS-DOS1.00infobox
NetHackReleaseInitial 1.3d / 28 July 1987; 39 years ago (1987-07-28) Latest 5.0.0 / 2 May 2026; 3 months ago (2 May 2026)1.00infobox
NetHackis aopen source single-player roguelike video game0.90text
NetHackis asoftware derivative of Hack0.90text
Discworldinstance ofincluding popular cultural reference to works0.80text
Raiders of the Lost Ark.It is identified as one of theinstance ofincluding popular cultural reference to works0.80text
knightinstance ofThere are traditional fantasy roles0.80text
wizardinstance ofThere are traditional fantasy roles0.80text
rogueinstance ofThere are traditional fantasy roles0.80text
and priestinstance ofThere are traditional fantasy roles0.80text

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