4Stack #88 — answers & breakdown

Friday, October 9, 2026

The sixteen cards in this puzzle were: NetHack, Angband, ADOM, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Rogue, Moria, Larn, Hack, Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain, Noita, Returnal, Permadeath, Grid-based, Resource management, Hack'n'slash.

The four stacks

Traditional roguelikes

NetHack, Angband, ADOM, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Roguelike ancestors

Rogue, Moria, Larn, Hack

Modern roguelites

Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain, Noita, Returnal

Berlin Interpretation traits

Permadeath, Grid-based, Resource management, Hack'n'slash

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