Incredible – Pathos: Nethack Codex Review

If you like dungeon crawlers/roguelikes, you’ve hit the jackpot. Pathos is a Nethack clone, but one that refines the original in all the best ways to bring it up to date. Other iOS nethack ports treat the keyboard-input interface like it’s some kind of sacred and essential part of the experience, awkwardly forcing you to bind keys to touch buttons, rather than just scrapping and replacing it like the dated and obsolete remnant if the past that it is. Here we have a full touch interface. You want to move somewhere? Touch there. Want to pick up a thing? Touch it. Want to check it for traps, open it, kick it, lick it, meet its parents? Just touch it. No “q for Quaff, w for wield, period for inspect, comma for take…” it’s all touch menus now, like it should have been since 1990.
Review by bendbars_liftgates on Pathos: Nethack Codex.