What variants are worth my time?

[TJA]

Phantastic, camlost!

Maybe, someone could add such information for others variants as well?


Dungeon Crawl (Stone Soup, ?)

FAangband (based on OAngband)

NPPAngband (based on Vanilla)

Portralis (based on NewAngband, based on PernAngband)

Unangband (?)

Entroband (based on Hengband)

and possibly even

Quickband (based on NPPAngband)

[Jude]

I mainly play Z+Angband, which is basically just Zangband, since the latter hasn't been developed for years. Lots of cool ideas have been implemented and there's more coming, but really there's no way to know if you'll like it except to play it. Personally one of the biggest reasons I play it is that I love being a Chaos Warrior, where you have a chaos demon you either gives you a gift, or screws you over somehow, or does some other chaos-y thing, every time you level up, which makes things a lot more fun.

I saw someone mention Discband, which is basically just an older and less developed version of Zangband with a bunch of Discworld-themed creatures added. Don't waste your time...

[pampl]

Dungeon Crawl (Stone Soup), while fun, isn't an Angband variant at all.. it's a completely different rogue-like with its own history.