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Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? (lemmy.world)
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[–] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Funnily enough, Diablo was originally a rogue-ish game inspired by the likes of NetHack. The engine was even (technically) turn based - there's a pretty cool anecdotes about how they made it real time over the course of a single weekend with some clever hacks.

I don't know if it was ever supposed to have permadeath outside of the hardcore difficulty setting though.