Install brogue with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• brogue

Project history

The original Brogue site identifies Brogue as a roguelike for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux by Brian Walker and now directs users to Brogue: Community Edition for the current version. The CE repository describes itself as a continuation of Brian Walker's game, with goals of fixing bugs and crashes, improving gameplay, easing maintenance, and serving as a base for forks and ports.

Brogue CE's release lineage starts from the original game's 1.7-era heritage and moved through CE 1.8 and 1.9 toward a more active community cadence. The changelog records a notable shift around CE 1.10: the maintainers said CE had matured, Brian Walker was involved in development, and the project became open to original gameplay changes as well as preservation-oriented maintenance.

Adoption history

Brogue's adoption sits in roguelike culture more than conventional infrastructure: players share seeds, recordings, challenges, and strategy around a deterministic single-player dungeon. CE became the default distribution path after the original website pointed current downloads to the GitHub releases page.

In package managers, Brogue CE gives terminal and desktop users a reproducible way to install a living roguelike without chasing platform-specific zip files. The input package facts show packaging in Homebrew and Alpine, matching its mixed terminal/SDL audience.

How it is used

Players run `brogue` to descend through a procedurally generated dungeon, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from depth 26, and optionally return to the surface. CE supports graphical tiles, terminal/curses builds, command-line options, recordings, seed catalogs, and variants such as Rapid Brogue and Bullet Brogue.

Why package nerds care

Brogue CE matters to package nerds because it is a living example of how game preservation, community stewardship, and package-manager distribution overlap. The package is also culturally interesting because it carries classic roguelike conventions into modern CI, release artifacts, and cross-platform packaging.

Timeline

• Original era: Brian Walker creates Brogue for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
• CE era: Brogue: Community Edition launches as a continuation of the original game.
• 2020: CE release tags include the 1.8 and 1.9 series.
• CE 1.10: Maintainers document a broader scope, including original gameplay changes with Brian Walker involved.
• 2026-02-12: GitHub lists Brogue CE 1.15.1 as the latest release at the time researched.

Related projects

• Brogue belongs to the roguelike family alongside NetHack, Angband, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Cataclysm-style descendants, while its CE model resembles other community continuations that keep beloved games buildable on current systems.

Sources

• https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE#readme
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
• source_facts.package-manager