Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a free open source (FOSS) roguelike pc game

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Original Release: 19 September 2006
Latest Version: 0.25.1(Stable)
License: GNU GPL
Developer: DCSS DevTeam

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a free open source software roguelike computer game, which is the actively community-developed successor of the 1997 roguelike game Linley’s Dungeon Crawl, originally programmed by Linley Henzell.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup polled first in a 2008 survey of over 500 roguelike players, and later polled second in 2009 (behind DoomRL) and 2010 (behind ToME 4), and third in 2011 (behind ToME 4 and Dungeons of Dredmor). Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is released under the GNU GPL version 2 or later.

This is a roguelike game where the player creates a character and guides it through a diverse branching dungeon, mostly consisting of persistent levels, full of monsters and items, with the goal of retrieving at least 3 of the 15 “runes of Zot” located there, fetching the Orb of Zot, and escaping alive.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup gameplay is designed to provide interesting strategic and tactical choices within a balanced game; to offer playability based on random dungeon generation; to make the game accessible and enjoyable without deep knowledge of its internal mechanics, and to present a friendly user interface that can optionally automate several tasks like exploration and searching for previously seen items. Conversely, the developer team seeks to avoid providing incentives for mindlessly repeating boring actions and providing illusory game play choices where one alternative is always superior.

The dungeon originally featured 27 main levels; all the objective items were situated on the bottom of the thematic dungeon branches: the Snake Pit, the Slime Pits, the merfolk-populated Shoals, the Vaults, the mummy-infested Tomb, the four Hells and the demonic Pandemonium, with the orb at the bottom of the draconic-themed Realm of Zot. The dungeon also contained the Lair of Beasts, the Orcish Mines, Elven Halls and Crypt which reward with loot. Subsequent updates reduced the main dungeon to 15 levels and added a new branch separating the main dungeon from the realm of Zot: The Depths.

Several public servers support online play through an ssh client and some of these also allow graphical play in web browser (referred to as webtiles). Features of online play include automated high-score tracking and real-time recording of online play for later viewing. Also, ghosts of other players’ characters are frequently encountered on a player’s journey, providing an additional challenge. A biannual tournament for allStone Soup players is held after each major release on the servers (usually in September and April).

Minimum System Requirements
Processor: 1 GHz CPU
Memory: 256 MB of RAM
Graphics: 32 bit video card
NOTE : This is not official system requirements !