GnollHack

Name: GnollHack
Rating: 4.8 (101 reviews)
Author: Hyvän mielen pelit ry

By: Hyvän mielen pelit ry App

Roguelike Legend Remastered

Overview

Version:

3.6

Last updated: 2026-08-01

Features & Capabilities

GnollHack is a remastered version of the classic NetHack, delivering traditional roguelike play with a modern user interface, deep strategic depth, and endless replayability. It preserves turn-based dungeon crawling while adding quality‑of‑life improvements and exciting new features.

Venture into the Dungeons of Doom to recover the Amulet of Yendor. With 13 classes, 5 races, hundreds of items and spells, and permadeath in Classic Mode, every run is unique. Helpful tutorials and the GnollHack wiki guide you, and a friendly Discord community is there to help.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Games Open Source

By:

Hyvän mielen pelit ry

Rating:

4.80

(101)

Version:

3.6 Last updated: 2026-08-01

Version code:

888703007

Creation date:

2023-03-21

Compatible devices:

Size:

769.09MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-07

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 132,364 ▼ 72

Other rankings

#57 in hacker keyword 16 ▲

Other platforms

GnollHack (v3.6)

22,476 4.53

(501)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Hyvän mielen pelit ry

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gnollhack/id1626979951

Website:

https://gnollhack.com/

User Reviews

GnollHack is widely praised as a superb iOS entry in the NetHack lineage: a polished, accessible UI with strong touchscreen controls, and it’s free, open‑source, and ad‑free. Reviewers note robust content, replayability, and appealing visuals, often calling it the best roguelike on the App Store. Recurrent drawbacks include save/load instability with app switching, occasional crashes on older devices, and a somewhat cluttered portrait-mode UI that could be streamlined.

Pros

Very accessible and polished UI for a traditional roguelike on iOS, with excellent touchscreen controls and reliable app-switching.
Free to play, no ads, and open-source, with ongoing development and community involvement.
Impressive visuals and audio: detailed sprites, character animations, voice lines, and Gnoll playable.
Rich content and replayability: many classes/races, run sharing and replays, and a modernization of NetHack.
Widely praised as one of the best roguelikes on the App Store.

Cons

Saving and load issues when switching apps: crashes, corrupted saves, and data loss; auto-update can delete saves or cause incompatibilities.

Recent reviews

Thanks for fixing the UI bug, but I’ve noticed that the latest build has seriously amped up some annoying things which were probably meant to increase difficulty, but just frustrate me as a person with ADHD. The enemy curse items spell apparently has been buffed to pass MR/MC and is used more often, resulting in lots of trips back to the temple. This kind of annoyance is supposed to be reserved for the endgame when the WoY is annoying you, now it’s the whole game and that’s not fair. More treasure chests are trapped, and trapped chests are a pain because you have to doff your rings, hide your wands, stash your flammable items and potions and etc. just to open the chest safely. Having to do this for every single locked chest in the entire dungeon (not just Gehennom/castle/maze) is also frustrating. There should also be guaranteed instances of each type of service in the main dungeon because if you roll the orc town, you may not have ready access to them until you get to the castle and Orcus Town. Some stuff like the temples are essential, and I had to quit a game once I got the Candelabrum because there were no candles left thanks to the orc town putting Izchak out of business.