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Pros
Pro Potential for enormous skill growth
Nethack is a game that you can play for hundreds of hours and still not master. But you'll have tons of fun attempting to master it.
Pro Depth
The gameplay is very deep due to the amount of skills and systems present in the game.
Pro Its open source
The NetHack General Public License allows anyone to create a fork or port it to a platform not supported by the official DevTeam, provided that they use the same license. Over the years this licensing has led to a large number of ports and forks (e.g. Slash'EM and UnNetHack) as well as versions in German, Japanese and Spanish.
Pro Salon viewed highly of it
"In 2000, Salon described it as "one of the finest gaming experiences the computing world has to offer."
Pro A port of one of the most famous rouge likes
NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 with ASCII graphics. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack, which is a descendant of Rogue.
Cons
Con Burden of knowledge
There's simply too much information that the game expects you to know before you can properly take advantage of the systems in the game.
Con Outdated controls
You need to study a wiki just to learn the most basic controls. The game is broken in this regard.
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