A roguelike is a role-playing video game which has a similar gameplay as the 1980 game ''Rogue''. Although there are many different roguelikes theses game shares some common attributes :

* They are turn-based : Every time the player makes an action one or more turn are spent (depending of the speed of the player and the duration of the action

For more informations, check this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike article on Wikipedia]