Direhollow — a faithful mobile remake of Rogue

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Into the Dungeons of Doom — real gameplay, straight from a live build.

The dungeon, faithfully

The kestrel hits you.

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

Where every run begins — name your adventurer and step into a freshly generated dungeon.

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: the Pack screen listing a mace, ring mail, a food ration, a short bow and arrows, each with tap actions to wield, wear, eat, throw or drop. — Your pack, a tap away — read, quaff, wield and wear whatever the dungeon gives up.

Direhollow on a phone: the death screen showing the classic ASCII tombstone reading “Rest in Peace — Rogue, 1351 Au, killed by an orc, 2026,” with the message “The orc hits you. You die…” above and Top Ten and New Game buttons below. — And then you die. The save is gone, the run is over — just the tombstone, the gold you carried, and the Top Ten. That’s permadeath.

Direhollow on a phone: the victory screen reading YOU WON, “The Amulet of Yendor is yours,” above a Top Ten Adventurers table with Rogue in first place. — Or you don’t. Escape with the Amulet of Yendor and your name tops the Adventurers’ roll — few ever get there.

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

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True permadeath

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

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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.

Get the game

Direhollow is out on iPhone, iPad and Android.

Free on both stores — no account, no ads, no purchases. The whole dungeon, on your phone, for nothing.

Get it on Google Play