There are a lot of roguelikes and roguelike-equivalents on the market, from games that take the genre in new directions such as Tower of Guns, Eldritch, or Nuclear Throne, to the more classically-styled games like Don't Starve and Dungeon of the Endless. What these games all have in common, though, is procedural generation, the dreaded perma-death, and a challenge level that's viciously unforgiving. However, they're only tangentially similar to the game they're all supposedly "like." Delver, while played from a first-person viewpoint in real-time, boasts mechanics that are deeply rooted in roguelikes of old.
Bad Demoman writes, "Delver is a game I've been watching for a fair while now. It started development around about 2012, partially inspired by a Ludum Dare game made by Notch called Prelude of the Chambered, and also by Ultima Underworld and various Roguelikes. What results is a first-person Roguelite"
"If the best you can do is imitate, you might as well imitate the best."
Oh slideshows we meet again... How much I hate you.
Great example of the domination of clones both the App stores. The last option shouldn't even be on that list though, it's like a double clone and it's awful.
Philip Federico of Capsule Computers wrote :
This episode features Delver, a first person action rogue-like dungeon crawl available on PC and Android with crunchy pixels developed by Chad Cuddigan. Take the role of an adventurer that tries their fate in the dark dungeons (and probably dies horribly).
Sad that this is the first true "rogue" like.