Moria
Go down into the mines of Moria and face the Balrog.
▶ Play Moria free, in your browser, nothing to install
Moria is a roguelike from 1983 inspired by The Lord of the Rings. Create a character, buy equipment in the town, then descend level after level of a dungeon full of monsters and treasure, down to the Balrog at the bottom.
Robert Alan Koeneke wrote it in VMS Pascal at the University of Oklahoma. Its C version, Umoria, is still maintained.
This port follows Umoria 5.7.15. Your character is saved on the server, and the score list is shared by everyone who plays here.
Screenshots
Controls
| 1-9 (numeric keypad), arrow keys | Move or attack in that direction (5 stays); with Shift the arrows run (the original's . and a direction) |
| ? and the letters | The original's commands: ? lists them (i inventory, w wear, q quaff, r read, m cast, p pray, < > stairs, ...) |
| Ctrl+X | Save the character and leave (the next Play restores it) |
| Ctrl+P, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+K | Earlier messages, redraw the screen, quit the character (Ctrl+W and other keys the browser keeps: type ^ and the letter) |
| Esc, Space, Enter | Leave a prompt or a list, go on after -more-, end a line |
| = | Options, among them the roguelike keys (h j k l y u b n to move, the arrows follow) |
The original
Moria (1983) by Robert Alan Koeneke; VMS Pascal; Umoria in C/C++. This port follows Umoria 5.7.15, the same rules, levels, graphics and sounds, running natively in the browser. License: GPL-3.0 (Licenses & source). Players: 1.
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