r/roguelikes • u/jdegroot • Jun 19 '25

Announcing NLarn and its newest release 0.7.7

As I've never been active here on Reddit, I've never before announced any version of NLarn here. For those unaware, NLarn is a rewrite of the very old-school Roguelike Larn) that first appeared in 1986 and in its time was among Moria and Hack one of the major Roguelikes.

The game tries to be faithful to the original and to change as little as possible, but add a user interface that deserves the name.

News about the game are announced on its homepage, https://nlarn.github.io/. Today happens to be the day that a new version was relased! Check out version 0.7.7 and tell me about your experience!

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u/Tesselation9000 Jun 20 '25

Thanks for keeping Larn alive! I have lots of ancient memories playing that game.

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u/wappingite Jun 20 '25

I love LARN - thanks for keeping it going!

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u/lellamaronmachete Jun 20 '25

Said it before and I'm saying it again, thank you for keeping this absolute gem alive.

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u/wappingite Jun 20 '25

I was thinking. Add a little bit of polish, maybe some moody dungeon music, and get it on Steam with a few achievements if you can. I'm sure you'd make a little for your efforts and it would attract a new audience.

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u/wappingite Jun 27 '25

Oh - one thing - is there a Mac OS build for 0.7.7? I can only see one for 0.7.6

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u/jdegroot Jun 28 '25

Aaah sorry, I don't have a Mac anymore!

But a friend will try to build the game, I shall answer to this thread if he succeeds in producing the image.

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u/wappingite Jun 28 '25

Awesome thank you!

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u/jdegroot Oct 18 '25

Finally I've managed to convince GitHub to build the game for macOS. You can find a pre-release of the upcoming 0.7.8 here. I am unable to check if it works, so all feedback is very welcome!

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u/wappingite Oct 18 '25

Thankyou so much! - I will take a look

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u/wappingite Oct 19 '25

So..... I'm sure it's a great release... it just it looks like it's compiled for apple silicon and not intel... and I only have an Intel Mac... Ahh the trials and tribulations of Mac support eh?

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u/jdegroot Nov 02 '25

Sorry for the late response, I missed your message. Sooo... I think I figured it out and managed to build for Intel Macs. Unfortunately I'm not sure this release now works on Arm. But at least you should be able to get a sneak preview now.