

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup can be played both offline and online in a web browser, and there are frequent competitive tournaments.Īt the beginning of a new game of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the player chooses a race and class combination to play as. A lively player community exists around the game. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has a great many race and class combinations to play, and numerous gods to worship, all of which will drastically affect playstyle and game outcome.

In order to get to the Orb, the player must first collect a series of magical runes hidden throughout the various branches of the dungeon, all while encountering traps, finding magical and/or cursed items, and battling many enemies. In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup the player must delve deep into a dangerous, monster-infested dungeon on a quest to retrieve the fabled Orb of Zot, then return with it to the surface. The graphical tiles are largely released as CC0 ( public domain), but some are unclearly licensed and so it is possible that only the ASCII version of the game is completely libre. The game is available in both graphical tile and ASCII versions and does not require 3D hardware acceleration. After Henzell stopped developing Dungeon Crawl in 1999, a group of contributors kept the game alive until, in 2006, the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup project began. Stone Soup is a successor to the game Linley's Dungeon Crawl (also frequently shortened to Dungeon Crawl) by Linley Henzell, which was developed in the 1990's. It is written in the C++ programming language, and is licensed under the GPL Version 2+. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.ĭungeon Crawl Stone Soup (often shortened to Dungeon Crawl, Crawl, or DCSS) is a roguelike dungeon crawler Role-playing game.

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