Roguelike of the Year 2011

[Grey]

C'mon folks, last day! Vote for Broken Bottle! I want it to reach the top 20 :D (I've not voted for it myself by the way - that would be improper)

[darkgod]

It's up to 32, which is way better than many other 7drls

ToME4 leads with 684 against DoD's second place of 606, but we need more votes! All those that didnt, please go vote for T4!

[Grey]

ToME4 has won! Congrats, DarkGod :-)

[andrewdoull]

With a record 2937 voters, voting for one or more of 185 qualifying roguelikes released this year, the winner this year is Tales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy, also known as T.o.M.E. 4.

The top ten roguelikes voted for are:

1. Tales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy (702 votes, http://www.te4.org/)
2. Dungeons of Dredmor (612 votes, http://www.gaslampgames.com/)
3. Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup (486 votes, http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ )
4. JADE (431 votes, http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/)
5. Desktop Dungeons (391 votes, http://www.desktopdungeons.net/)
6. Dwarf Fortress (373 votes, http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/)
7. Brogue (240 votes, http://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/)
8. The Binding of Isaac (199 votes, http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/)
9. DoomRL: Doom the Roguelike (178 votes, http://doom.chaosforge.org/)
10. Cataclysm (170 votes, http://whalesdev.com/forums/index.php)

For full results: http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/ ... elike.html

About the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year:

Now in its fifth year, the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year is recognised as the premier annual award for the roguelike genre. Previous winners include Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, DoomRL: the Roguelike and T.o.M.E. 4.

Roguelikes qualified by being announced on the Rogue Basin news section between December 16th 2010 and December 12th 2011 and from the list of Actively Developing Roguelikes maintained by Michał Bieliński. From this year, roguelikes also qualify which have been discussed on Roguelike Radio and released this year. Votes are then collated over a two week period from mid December and the winner, runner up, honourable mentions and full results are announced when voting closes. Voters may choose to vote for multiple roguelikes.

[darkgod]

Yay!

Thanks to you all, this year has been an incredible ride, and I dare say next year will be too!

[darkgod]

And also congrats to Grey, his two TE4 games are totalling 44 votes, that's more than many other devs!

[onyhow]

Hope Andrew talks about all the winning games soon (the current post on Ascii Dreams is mite too short)...and really hope to expand it to top 20, not just 10...

[getter77]

The next Roguelike Radio Show when they get back on schedule will be about the Winner and I think the gist of much of the lot of this poll. 2012 is shaping up!

[Wolpertinger]

Only one I haven't played yet on the top 10 is JADE - I didn't like ADOM, though I really really wanted to, but it was too damn hard and too damn unforgiving, even for a roguelike, in an unfun way. Then, there was the novel-length spoilers needed to succeed, and.. yeah. It's made me skeptical about JADE, though I do intend to try JADE at some point, but it probably wouldn't be fair to try it when it's in such an early stage of alpha - after all, I didn't like TOME4 much when it was rough and new, and now I love it - a little polish can change everything.

[martinuzz]

Grats again!
Now for the hat trick!