Roguelike

Origin

rogue + -like, after the 1980 computer game Rogue (computer game), the original roguelike.

Full definition of roguelike

Noun

1. (video games) Any of a genre of computer role playing games loosely characterized by various characteristics such as randomised environment generation, permadeath, turn-based movement, text-based or primitive tile-based graphics and hack-and-slash gameplayhttp://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretation.
• I “Like-Like” Roguelikes (Because Love Should Never Be So Cruel), 2011If you haven’t played a ‘roguelike’ before, it’s basically what happens when you take a twitchy hack-and-slash game like Diablo and make it boring, confusing, and frustrating.