Hengband AIHengband is a Japanese variant of the classic roguelike Angband, forked from ZAngband. It features dozens of playable races and classes, a vast multi-dungeon world with wilderness travel, and hundreds of unique monsters drawn from mythology, literature, and pop culture.
Like all roguelikes, Hengband is turn-based with permanent death — when your character dies, the game
is over
and you start fresh. The entire game is rendered as text symbols in a terminal:
@ is the player, letters represent monsters (o = orcs, D = dragons),
and punctuation marks are items and terrain features.
On this page, an AI agent is playing Hengband autonomously. It reads the terminal screen as raw text, decides which key to press, and sends it to the game — one action at a time. You can watch the AI's decisions in the Log tab and its accumulated knowledge in the Lessons tab.
This site is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with the Hengband development team. Please do not contact them regarding this site.
Each turn's AI decision: which key was pressed and why.
Ko-fi tips — messages become advice for the AI.
Knowledge the AI has learned from past mistakes. New entries appear live.
Past game results ranked by score.
The system prompt that teaches the AI how to play Hengband.
Past game recordings require authentication.
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