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{{angband-variant-stable | name = Tangaria
| developer = Tangar Igroglaz, PowerWyrm, Serega88
| parent = [[PWMAngband]]
| theme = [[List of roguelikes by theme#Fantasy|Fantasy]]
| released = 2019
| updated = on 18th Feb 2022
| download = https://tangaria.com/download/
| platforms = [[Windows]], [[Unix]]
| site = https://tangaria.com/
| interface = [[ASCII]], [[Graphical tiles]], Optional multiple console windows, [[Keyboard]]
| length=Many years
}}
Tangaria – multiplayer roguelike game (MMO-roguelike) inspired by Tolkien’s lore. Action goes during The Fourth Age: Morgoth awakened, in Middle-Earth there are opened rifts to the other dimensions and now you need to stop Dagor Dagorath... Defeat Morgoth (again), meet Valars and even pay a visit to Eru Iluvatar in Timeless Halls of the Abyss.

'''Tangaria combines the complexity and unpredictability of roguelike genre and social features of MMORPG''': kill monsters together with your friends, chat, PvP (on demand), buy a house and open a store to trade your goods with other players… with advanced real-time gameplay – game become semi turn-based when your character is injured.

Tangaria is [[Angband]] variant and powered by [[PWMAngband]] (2007) game engine which was derived from [[MAngband]] (1998) and also got some [[TomeNET]] (2001) features.

==Roguelike features==

* permadeath. Every adventure – counts. Every death – is an achievement. Every new character – is the happiness of a unique exploration experience.
* absolutely random level generation. You are constantly facing extremely unimaginable gaming situations.
* very high degree of character freedom (loads of ways to act: kick, throw, dig, polymorph, etc)
* destructible dungeon environment – tunnel walls, chop trees, make an earthquake to blast everything around you!
* freedom. Not linear walkthrough of the game. There is even no walkthrough! Go wherever you want; every dive to the dungeon isn’t like previous one!
* perfect Hack’n’Slash experience – all boring auto-attacks your character will make automatically while giving you time to control essential stuff – casting spells and using skills and items. It’s ingenious combat system, you should try and you will be hooked, guaranteed!
* strong anti-powergamer roguelikish concept – it’s just you, your skill, your guts.. and your freedom. Grind won’t help you to survive.
* macro system which makes it’s perfectly alright to play roguelike game in ‘real-time’; any action (including targeting) could be put on a hotkey.

==MMORPG features==

* real-time. But you could assign a certain HP threshold at which game will slow down and become semi turn-based.
* PvE in group. Game has great features for teamplay; the more – the merrier!
* PvP. You could duel with other characters if you will turn on PvP mode.
* Trade, barter, create your own shop. The economy is healthy because a lot of items and gold got washed out from market when characters die (quite often situation).
* Communication. Find friends, create a guild, buy a house, welcome your neighbours..
* …and much more. Game has a lot of tiny beautiful features, for example, feature about artifacts – they are real artifacts. There couldn’t be two ‘Orcrist’ swords. After you found a true artifact, only you at the server have it (and there are mechanics which prevent players from hoarding artifacts without using them).

==Extra (special Tangaria’s stuff):==

* oldschool graphics or ASCII – you could play in a lot of display modes.
* one character per account. It’s forbidden to have more than one account per person to prevent cheating.
* disconnected stairs. Up/down staircases are ‘not connected’ between levels to prevent stair-scumming.
* food matters. It’s not too easy to obtain food, it could be only found in the dungeon.
* no selling to NPC. It removes boring grind from the game; in return, you get extra gold in the dungeon and could trade with other players.
* rebalanced telepathy & detection: no boring mechanical actions; exploration matters!
* brackets system – prevents boredom cheezy grinding.
* deep storyline based on the unique fantasy universe inspired by Tolkien’s lore.
* beautiful world with handmade locations with inhabitants who will tell you their story.
* sounds, day/night change, Windows/Linux clients;
* diversity: 57 races, 38 classes, 1185 monsters, 32 dungeons, 557 items (multiplied with 122 ego types), 236 unique artifacts, 156 activation properties, 96 item’s parameters… and endless amount hours which you could spend in-game to have a great time!

==What the difference between Tangaria and PWMAngband?==

Tangaria based at [[PWMAngband]], so it’s got all great PWMA features. Additionally, Tangaria got:

* unique carefully designed hand-made locations
* the most advanced dungeon’s design (it’s not only rooms and corridors)
* advanced graphics with hundreds of new terrain features
* 40+ new races and 20 new classes
* circumspection storyline which continuing Tolkien universe (rebellion against Valars and multi-dimensions!)
* new monsters types (angels, mutants, djinns, fey, unicorns, ents; each type includes several species) and new monsters (several dozens)
* all races rebalanced to remove experience penalty
* NPC system (with a lot of dialogues)
* new dungeons
* rebalanced detection, magic mapping magic and other magic
* customized dungeons brackets system
* rebalanced food system
* strict fair-play (anti-cheating gameplay)
* new items, traps, stores, etc

Tangaria focused to take all the best features from it’s *band ancestors and also get inspiration from other great singleplayer roguelikes like Nethack, DCSS, ToME & others, with the influence of sandbox MMORPGs and MUD’s (text MMORPGs).

== Resources ==
* [https://tangaria.com/ tangaria.com], the official site
* [https://discord.gg/zBNG369 discord.gg/zBNG369], the community hub at Discord
* [https://github.com/igroglaz/tangaria_release], Tangaria binaries and data
* [https://github.com/igroglaz/tangaria], Tangaria source
* [https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband], PWMAngband source
* [https://youtube.com/Tangaria Video streams and tutorials]
* [https://igroglaz.itch.io/tangaria Tangaria at itch.io]
* [https://www.indiedb.com/games/tangaria Tangaria at Indie DB]
* [https://www.openhub.net/p/tangaria Tangaria at OpenHub]
* [https://www.mobygames.com/game/tangaria Tangaria at MobyGames]

[[Category:Open source]]

==See also==

* [[List of Angband variants]]