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GnollHack
The modern way to play NetHack
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“In the current times when so many scammers try to sell their games as "roguelike" only because you constantly lose and restart, it is great to see games such as this one on Steam -- a variant of the classic roguelike NetHack, that is free (just as NetHack always was) and in…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The right way to experience nethack again in modern time, no question about it. GnollHack stands out from the countless hack variants for all the better reasons, tiles? Check. Beautiful art? Check. Completely voice acted? Check. An HUD so simple for a trad RL standard that even…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played“Now you are a hallucinating bison somewhere in the depths of the dungeon, with no chance of victory.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedLatest official news
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Patch Notes, Version 3.31
Changes Upgraded .NET to 10.0.14 (SDK 10.0.403) on Windows. Upgraded .NET to 11 RC3 on Linux. Improved error handling in loading saved games. Improved error handling in save file tracking. Several bug
Patch Notes, Version 3.30
Changes Added native crash reporting to Sentry on Windows. Fixed a crash bug in the abilities menu. Added a workaround tracking system to the repository.
GnollHack Is Now Available on Linux
GnollHack now runs natively on Linux! On a Linux PC, just install GnollHack from your Library and Steam will download the native Linux build automatically. Steam Deck GnollHack will probably run on St
Patch Notes, Version 3.29
Changes Upgraded .NET MAUI to 10.0.120. Knights now obtain the knight jumping intrinsic at level 3 and magical jumping at level 23. Added a knight's mythic prefix that yields the knight jumping extrin
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | RPG · Traditional Roguelike · Roguelike · Dungeon Crawler · Adventure · Fantasy · Singleplayer · 2D · Turn-Based Combat · Procedural Generation · Perma Death · Free to Play (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://gnollhack.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: 5th Gen Intel Core Processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Storage: 1 GB available space