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NetHack

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NetHack
NetHack cover
Developers
The NetHack DevTeam
Release dates
DOS July 1987[1]
Mac OS (Classic) October 1989[2]
Linux 1992[3]
Windows 3.x March 1993[4]
Windows December 8, 2003[citation needed]
macOS (OS X) December 8, 2003[citation needed]
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control, Menu-based, Text input, Point and select
Genres Roguelike, RPG
Art styles Abstract, Pixel art
Themes Fantasy
NetHack on HowLongToBeat
NetHack on IGDB
NetHack guide on StrategyWiki
NetHack on MobyGames
NetHack on Wikipedia

NetHack is a Rogue and Hack inspired game originally released for DOS in 1987.

General information

Community wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
DOS
Mac OS
Mac App Store
Icon overlay.png
NetHack Cocoa.
macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows %USERPROFILE%\NetHack\.nethackrc
%PROGRAMDATA%\NetHack\3.6\[Note 1]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NetHack\NetHack 3.6.6\Settings\
Microsoft Store
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) $HOME/.nethackrc
Linux $HOME/.nethackrc
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\NetHack\3.6\
Microsoft Store
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux /var/games/nethack/save/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
No sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
NetzHack
Japanese
JNetHack
Spanish
Spanish Nethack

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Text
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
Up-to-date 64-bit and ARM versions require building from source. A binary for 64-bit of v3.6.1-nightly[5] and a binary for ARM of v3.4.3[6] are known to exist.
macOS (OS X)
Official installation packages were discontinued after 3.6.2.[7] PPC packages were discontinued after 3.4.3. Unofficial up-to-date builds with ARM support are provided by Brew.sh.[8]
Linux
[9]
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
Intel 8086
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel i386
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.12
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22.7 MB
These requirements are for NetHack Cocoa.
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel i386
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. NetHack 1.3d - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
  2. NetHack 3.0.5 - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
    "A new port to the Mac is provided."
  3. NetHack (1992) Linux release dates - MobyGames - last accessed on 2020-01-01
  4. NetHack 3.1.1 - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
    "Windows NT is now supported in text mode for the first time"
  5. Windows executables of 3.6.1-to-be, the development version - last accessed on 2021-04-16
  6. (port) Nethack 3.4.3 for RT - last accessed on 10 August 2022
  7. Verified by User:Dandelion Sprout on 2021-01-26
  8. nethack - last accessed on 1 March 2022
  9. Package nethack-common - last accessed on 2020-12-01