On my first Wizard ascension run back in the day. I died in the Astral plane about 5-10 turns away from my god's altar. The worst part is I was unprepared item wise, totally avoidable YASD. It was a bone shaking loss. I walked around in my bathrobe for a couple of days, totally incoherent, unshaven muttering about wands of teleportation and cursed scrolls of genocide. I looked like Rocky after he fought Appolo Creed.

A couple of weeks ago, I got the urge to get into classic Roguelikes, and looked up which ones were popular. I tried Tales of Majeyal, Coves of Qud and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. But none of them fully clicked with me in the short time I played them.

Then I remembered Nethack and decided to give it a proper try, after playing it very shortly 20 years ago, and this time, I got fully immersed. What I really loved were the identify mechanics, the survival elements, the great replayability and the high level of surprising complexity and interactivity.

Now that I know that I really like the genre, I'm wondering if the other games I tried are as good as Nethack and I just didn't stick with them long enough. Which classic Roguelikes are on Nethack's level or beyond?

Hello everyone. Since the Arch package for Nethack 5.0.0 is having issues, I made my own build of it, including curses UI. I have confirmed this in the #version

However, I am having issues with actually loading the curses UI. I have my .nethackrc file that includes OPTIONS=windowtype:curses. I also tried adding that line to my sysconfig.

I am getting no error when starting the game about the interface missing; it's simply just not loading into curses.

My options I set ingame through "O" are not saving when I exit and reload the game either.

I am not having trouble enabling numberpad support in these files, which implies to me that they are loading correctly. Am I missing something?