Direhollow — a faithful mobile remake of Rogue

The dungeon, faithfully

The kestrel hits you.

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|..........|
|....@K....|
|..!.......+########
|..........|       #
|.....*....|       #     -----------
------------       #     |.........|
                   #     |.........|
                   ######+.........|
                         |......)..|
                         |...%.....|
                         -----------

Level: 3 Gold: 142 Hp: 21(24) Str: 16(16) Arm: 5 Exp: 4/128

Classic ASCII mode — @ you, K a kestrel, ! a potion, * gold, ) a weapon, % the stairs down. Pure ASCII, true to the 1980 terminal.

On a real phone

No mockups — these are straight from a live build, touch controls and all.

Direhollow on a phone: the hero @ stands beside a red vampire V in a lit room, with the message “You hit the vampire. The vampire misses you.” above and the touch movement pad and command buttons below. — Toe-to-toe with a vampire deep in the dungeon — the full touch pad and command panel always to hand.

Direhollow on a phone: corridors branch across the level, the hero @ near a junction, with the message “You hit the medusa. You have defeated the medusa.” above and the on-screen controls below. — Deeper in — branching corridors and the running combat log. Real seeded dungeons, the classic A–Z bestiary.

What it is

The Dungeons of Doom. Permadeath. The Amulet of Yendor.

Direhollow rebuilds the original Rogue for phones — the same seeded dungeons, the same A–Z bestiary, the same unforgiving rules — with touch-first controls, reliable saves, and an authentic ASCII display. We modernize the shell, not the rules.

Features

☠

True permadeath

One life, one seed. The save is deleted on death — no reloading an earlier turn.

♛

The full bestiary

The complete A–Z roster, depth-ordered exactly as the original intended.

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Loot & identify

Per-run appearances for scrolls, potions, rings and wands — learn them or risk them.

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The Amulet of Yendor

Descend to claim it, then climb back to the surface alive. Few will.

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Touch-first controls

A 3×3 move pad, pinch-to-zoom, and a tap-driven pack — built for a phone, not ported to one.

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True ASCII

The authentic 1980 glyph grid — no tiles, no remix. The terminal classic on a phone.

Why

The only faithful port of the original on iOS is years stale and rough; there's no prominent faithful port on Android at all. Direhollow's wedge is simple: the real game, played right on a phone — and free.