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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Free and open-source roguelike video game / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS) is a free and open source roguelike computer game and the community-developed successor to the 1997 roguelike game Linley's Dungeon Crawl, originally programmed by Linley Henzell. It has been identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris.[2]
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Developer(s) | DCSS Devteam |
Platform(s) | Web browser, Cross-platform |
Release | September 19, 2006[1] |
Genre(s) | Roguelike |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was first among roguelikes in ASCII Dreams' Roguelike of the Year in 2008, in a poll of 371 roguelike players.[3] It later polled second in 2009 (behind DoomRL)[4] and 2010 (behind ToME 4),[5] and third in 2011 (behind ToME 4 and Dungeons of Dredmor).[6] The game is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.[7] The latest release is version 0.31 (0.31), released on Jan 18, 2024.[8] "Stone Soup" refers to the European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys.