The Year's Most Popular (2013) - By Category - Thank You Ascii Dreams

[guest509]

BIG EDIT: Hello people. I got the swine flu, H1N1. It's bad, I'm almost over it but really am not up to spending the hours it takes to break everything down into categories. I do apologize.


Here are the results though, in order.

TOP 20

1  Noxico   5059
2  T.o.M.E. 4   5011
3  ADOM   4168
4  Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead   1478
5  ADOM II   872
6  Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup   715
7  UnReal World   521
8  Doom, the Roguelike   314
9  Brogue   263
10  Dungeons of Dredmor   249
11  Rogue Legacy   216
12  Elona+   182
13  Spelunky HD   182
14  X@COM   172
15  Sword of the Stars: The Pit   162
16  Don't Starve   155
17  Teleglitch   139
18  Desktop Dungeons   125
19  Risk of Rain   124
20  Ultima Ratio Regnum   103

MID TIER (some great ones here)

Pixel Dungeon   102
Wayward   99
Sil   98
Dungeonmans   92
Infra Arcana   84
NEOScavenger   71
Prospector   67
Steam Marines   50
One Way Heroics   46
Pixel Piracy   45
Red Rogue   39
WazHack   39
868-HACK   38
Bionic Dues   38
Diablo, the Roguelike   37
Dungeon of the Endless   35
Legend of Dungeon   35
Triangle Wizard   31
Eldritch   27
Delver   26
Hoplite   26
Hack, Slash, Loot   25
UnBrogue   25
NPPAngband   24
86856527   23
KeeperRL   23
Forays into Norrendrin   20
HyperRogue   20
Aurora   18
Nuclear Throne   18
PRIME   18
3079   17
Paranautical Activity   17
The Veins of the Earth   16
Hydra Slayer   15
3089   15
Drakefire Chasm   14
Tower of Guns   14
Kerkerkruip   13
Ending   12
Voyage to Farland   12
Dungeon Dashers   11
DynaHack   11
Mosaic   11
PonyRL   11
Rogue's Tale   10
8.68-HACK   10
Occult Chronicles   10

LOWER TIER (Some solid 7DRL's here, such as Attack The Geth, Rogue City, Possession and Pugnacious)

TomeNET   9
Rogue's Souls   9
Seduction Quest   9
@Star Wars   8
Illuminascii   8
MythosRL   8
The Aurora Wager   8
Attack The Geth   7
Cosmic Commando   7
Heroes of Loot   7
KlingonRL   7
Lost Labyrinth   7
NPPMoria   7
Incavead: infinite cave adventure   6
Krater   6
Possession: Escape from the Nether Regions   6
Pugnacious Wizards 2   6
Rasatala   6
Zoo Base   6
Elite RL   5
Ad Astra Per Aspera   5
Asterogue   5
Bump!   5
Dungeons of Kong   5
FlatlineRL   5
HumFullRL   5
Kali's Ladder   5
Malachite Dreams   5
Rodney   5
Rogue's Eye   5
The Land   5
A False Saint, An Honest Rogue   4
Consuming Shadow   4
Han Yolo and the Mysterious Planet   4
Quadropus Rampage   4
Rogue City Scavenger   4
Splitter   4
Swift Swurd   4
Weeping Angels   4
Liberation of Yama   3
Nightmare Tyrant   3
10 Second Roguelike   3
Cosplay Mystery Dungeon   3
De Sade's Dungeon   3
Fame   3
hproguelike   3
Pitman   3
Pugnacious Wizards   3
Return to the Dungeons of Doom   3
Rogue Effect   3
RogueMek   3
SurvivorRL   3
The Guided Fate Paradox   3
The Hunger Games   3
Witchaven the Roguelike   3
ZomgRL   3
Post Future Vagabond   2
_____rogue the space   2
A DAY @ THE ZOO   2
Adventure Dungeon   2
Alchemy   2
AlexandriaRL   2
Allure of the Stars   2
Angry Troll versus Magic Bridge   2
Black Mage Goes Rogue   2
CoreRL   2
Dead Man Walking   2
Disc RL   2
Dungeon Fray   2
Epilogue   2
Equin: The Lantern   2
EXCELent Rogue   2
Faith in RL   2
Fancy Skulls   2
Farm rl   2
Fisticuffmanship   2
Gatecrashers   2
Infection   2
MidBoss   2
Mysterious Castle   2
QuickHack   2
Rogue Fleet   2
SkullDorado   2
Sorcery Saga: The Curse of the Great Curry God   2
T@XI   2
The Royal Wedding   2
Warp Core Breach   2
Zero-Player Game   2
AscentRL   1
Dungeon Ho!   1
It Did Not End Well   1
Peli   1
So Many Jagged Shards   1
The Power of Dreams   1
Bardess   1
ColdRL   1
Comrade Pixel   1
Delusions of Grandeur   1
Double Rogue   1
Down The Brain   1
Dragonslayer   1
Dungeon Penetrator   1
Dungeon-Themed Starvation Simulator   1
Famaze   1
Fleeing the Fray   1
Gelatinous   1
GUTS   1
Herculeum   1
Lost Crypts   1
MacRL   1
Man in a Maze   1
MLP RL   1
NinjaRL   1
Not the Robots   1
Nya Quest   1
Rogue Coder   1
Rogue Shooter   1
Rogue's Labyrinth   1
Rogue3D   1
Ruoeg, a minimalist roguelike   1
Seven Days in Space   1
Smashing Bad   1
SurviveRL   1
Tetrogue   1
The Artifact   1
The Conception   1
The Fourth Wall   1
The Reset Button   1
The Wizard's Lair   1
Underhall   1
Unnamed RL   1
Uushubud   1
Versus Time   1
Web Raid Mobile   1
3   0
88 Pages   0
Adventure Mall   0
Akamar   0
Alternate Dimension Rogue Like   0
Anarchial   0
Appeasing the God   0
Archmaster   0
Arcology Escape   0
Asylum Escape   0
Back up   0
Beltham's Lair   0
Bonfire   0
Borstal   0
Bronze and Faith   0
BRS-081   0
Bughack   0
Caverns of Shrug   0
Chase Brannick: Space Mechanic   0
Chest Quest   0
Chicken and Thyme   0
Cogs of Cronus   0
Cutpurse Castle   0
Depths of Tuzua   0
Distant Echoes of Ancient Lies   0
DiveDive   0
Dragon's Lair   0
Dragons Hoard   0
Dungeon X: Flesh Wounds   0
Dying Embers   0
Enter the Roguelike Dimension (EtRD)   0
Eternal Cave   0
fabu   0
FHRL   0
Firestorm City   0
Fishtryoshka   0
Friendly Meddling   0
FunhouseRL   0
Goblin Men   0
Hark!   0
Hunted   0
Hush Little One   0
Inside Out   0
Interloper   0
Into the Labyrinth   0
Khu-Phu-Ka   0
Kollum: The Pressure Valve   0
Kukulima   0
Like a Rogue   0
Live as Long as Possible   0
Lurk Under Wires   0
Magic Fountain   0
Mazmorra   0
MGRL   0
MidsomerRL   0
mmoRL   0
Moving@   0
MovingETA v0.07   0
Nebulaic Toaster   0
Now Hiring: Zookeepers   0
Nyanko   0
Prehistorical Bean Climber   0
PurpRL   0
Rillaung   0
rogue (7DRL)   0
Rogue Break   0
Rogue Dream   0
Rogue in the Void   0
Rogue Valley   0
Roguelike Runner   0
Room Rogue   0
RRRSAncientBlade   0
RuneMaster   0
SanitasRL   0
Scrounger   0
segfault   0
ShadowsofHumanity   0
Skool Eskape   0
Slaughter   0
Starship Rex   0
Stink Warrior   0
Sunk Coast   0
T.H.A.D. - 7DRL edition   0
The Case of the Girl and the Red Dress   0
The Monastery Garden   0
Unhappy Devil   0

[Kyzrati]

Although "Biggest Surprise" may be a bit too subjective to be "easily defined" in all cases, I'd say Cataclysm: DDA is earning top spot for that one. What a surprising explosion of votes this year!

[guest509]

I figured it would do well but man it's giving the big dogs like TOME4 and ADOM a run for their money.

It will probably be 'biggest surprise', pretty subjective sure but we'll include any other big surprises that we see.

[Zireael]

I figured it would do well but man it's giving the big dogs like TOME4 and ADOM a run for their money.

It will probably be 'biggest surprise', pretty subjective sure but we'll include any other big surprises that we see.

I wouldn't say it's giving them a run for their money, but I just saw my humble roguelike get 10 votes and I'm floored!

[guest509]

I know KlingonRL is at 6 and I'm bouncing around. People can vote for more than once, I voted for quite a few of the smaller ones.

[Rickton]

How is Approaching Infinity not on the list?

[getter77]

That always seems to happen to some each year in the dash to compile the lot of it towards the end---maybe next year a better plan would be to do a quarterly compilation and then the sum of the 4 be the grand list as opposed to all at once.

[guest509]

Post the list a week in advance so everyone can see it and add things. Tower of Despair was also not on there.

[Krice]

Is Adom 2 actually a game yet? Or URR? I think they are more like engine/tech projects. Still getting more votes than actual games.

[Kyzrati]

As long as the game is released and runnable it should be fine. It's a way to show support for games that are still in development.

A much bigger problem is cheating. It's obvious there's multiple voting going on in the race between ADOM and ToME. I also watched Noxico get 800 votes in less than two hours this morning, and still rising (it's going up at a rate of about 10 votes per minute). Can't wait 'til it beats out both ADOM and ToME to take the title of "surprise hack of the year".

[guest509]

Wow that sucks, really sucks.

[Kyzrati]

Yup. Considering the poll's growing profile, it would be nice to have a version much less prone to cheating. A Blogspot poll was fine back in the day when the scope was simpler, but when it's really the only one of its kind out there and multiple games start vying for it as a claim to popularity...

In any case, start saving the stats/results in advance before any others start to get wackier.

[Krice]

I also watched Noxico get 800 votes in less than two hours this morning, and still rising (it's going up at a rate of about 10 votes per minute).

I like the developer of that game already. I'm also wondering where you could download some interesting sounding games in the list? I tried to look for 'Peli' from roguebasin, but it was not there. In case you didn't know, 'peli' is finnish and means 'game'.

[Kyzrati]

I wouldn't be so quick to assume it's the developer himself voting his game up.

Peli is a 7DRL. Most of the obscure ones you can find on the 2013 7DRL list, seeing as a big chunk of the list is from this year's 7DRL challenge.

[AgingMinotaur]

Noxico getting 1000+ votes is just ridiculous (to the point of being funny, IMHO; I'd love to read Andrew's blogpost congratulating Noxico with the victory). Obvious cheating in the poll isn't very impressive, although it could be a problem that random passers-by who consult the poll come away with the impression that some random games are the most important RLs today. Then again, maybe Noxico just has a massive following in some corner of the web that most of us don't know about

Cleaning up the poll a bit for next year is probably a good idea. In addition to making it a bit more cheat proof, it would be nice to see some minor fixes. The light grey font on white background showing the number of votes for each game is very hard to make out, for instance, and the table is formatted such that I have to expand my window to about twice the width of my screen resolution to be able to see the votes, at all.

As always,
Minotauros