This is 100% the way to experience nethack. Users new and returning will play more games thanks to GnollHacks modernization. Being able to switch between apps and come back to my game is everything I’ve ever wanted. The controls are great and well thought out in my opinion, I never used to clear entire floors but now it’s a quick breeze with tap controls. In original nethack it was hard to see if a path continued or was a wall (not possible in iNethack2). I’m consistently surprised with the graphics, with each enemy and item having its own sprite, and characters having voice lines! Main characters say their actual names! The tourist class attack animation is my favorite thing ever. I wish I had the words to articulate how much I appreciate the work put into GnollHack, from QOLs to social features like run sharing and replays, I am infinitely grateful to the developers for keeping the legacy of the roguelike going, for free, without ads, AND open source! Wow! Please consider sponsoring the developers! Sponsoring is a legally preferred way to donate for the immense amount of work done (and ongoing) for your enjoyment pleasure! Oh, and did I mention you can be a Gnoll? Gnolls are awesome!

This game is a fantastic iOS implementation of Nethack. It has easily the most playable, least clunky interface of any NH variant I’ve played, and I’ve played a lot of them. The graphics and animations look really good, and voice acting bits are a very nice touch. The gameplay includes all of the best core features from Nethack, and many of the rest of the features as well. I’m running it on a 6th generation iPad, and it does crash occasionally due to the older hardware, but I’m sure if I tweak the settings I can fix that. Even when it does crash, the recovery is very good with very little lost data. This is absolutely worth playing for any fan of traditional Roguelikes. 5 stars and an Amulet of Yendor.

Seems to be the best/most accessible traditional roguelike on IOS, not only not needing to use SSH but also having a great UI, especially by roguelike standards. My only complaint is that I had a couple casual save games be corrupted on load with panic/msg history issues but that was before the latest update, so hopefully this new one fixed it.

I love any game that lets me play as a Gnoll (though with a name like gnollhack, I hope you’ll be expanding the number of classes that can be a gnoll 👀). I was pleasantly surprised that the player character actually has animations, and the elven bard song actually being a sung song was a nice treat.My only major issues right now is the control scheme. Tapping where you want to go in a portrait oriented game feels clunky, and I'd prefer the option for an 8-direction button pad for movement.A lot of the menus feel like they have a lot of extra button presses required to confirm things, and I think there's a lot of places where the ux could be streamlined.