Development status

A rogue-like can go through a number of development statuses on its way to becoming the next NetHack. These categories are used for the Status summary of a roguelike and also to categorize Roguelikes by.

• Talkie talkie projects: No software has been released, and usually no code has been written.
• Alpha projects: a development version with severly limited functionality has been released.
• Beta projects: a playable and winnable public testing version has been released.
• Stable games: Stable games are roguelikes that the authors have believed reached a level of maturity that allows them to be judged as games in themselves. Often, development is still ongoing, as rogue-likes are hardly ever finished. (Except for those that were developed in a definite amount of time, like Dungeon Monkey and the 7DRLs, of course.)
• Defunct: the game is no longer under development.