ADOM: Ancient Domains of Mystery

About

ADOM is a turn-based dungeon crawler where survival depends on strategy over reflexes. You navigate procedurally generated levels in Ancardia, battling monsters, solving traps, and managing hunger, disease, and corruption. Each decision shapes your path, scavenge for gear, follow prophecy-driven quests, or exploit chaos for power. The game emphasizes risk and consequence with permadeath and branching outcomes that let you become a hero, deity, or indifferent observer. Over 30 years in development, ADOM has evolved from text-based roots to include tile graphics, music, and an overworld map while retaining its punishing difficulty. With dozens of endings and deep character customization, it rewards patience and adaptability. Longtime roguelike fans rate it as one of the genre’s most ambitious titles, balancing complexity with accessibility. Still actively updated, it runs on modern systems and legacy platforms alike.

Storyline

The world of Ancardia is very harsh, unforgiving, harkening back to the golden days of roguelikes and role-playing games. You must face a huge host of monsters while avoiding disease, hunger, traps and the ever-present corruption. You race against time to unravel the nature of the corrupting forces slowly devouring Ancardia, and finally vanquish them once and for all. Or will you manage to harness them to do your bidding? Become a savior, ascend as a god, or don't interfere and leave Ancardia to its fate? The choice is yours, adventurer.