CRAWL(6)

NAME
Crawl - a roguelike dungeon exploration game

SYNOPSIS
Crawl [-vscores n] [-tscores n] [-test] [-sprint-map map] [-sprint] [-species species] [-seed num] [-script file] [-scores n] [-scorefile path] [-rcdir path] [-rc path] [-plain] [-name name] [-morgue path] [-macro path] [-help] [-extra-opt-last optname=optval] [-extra-opt-first optname=optval] [-dir path] [-builddb] [-background background] [-arena ["monsters v monsters [arena:map]"]]

DESCRIPTION
Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of similar games like Rogue, Hack and Moria. The objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.

If you have never played Crawl (or a similar game) before, select the tutorial from the starting menu. The tutorial explains the interface in five easy lessons. Once you're familiar with the controls, you may want to play a few games using hints mode.

This is the Stone Soup version of Dungeon Crawl.

ENVIRONMENT
CRAWL_NAME
    The character name to use.
CRAWL_DIR
    The directory to store information in.
CRAWL_RC
    The configuration file to use.

SUPPORT
Please visit https://crawl.develz.org for further information.

SEE ALSO
The in-game help menu, which can be accessed by pressing?.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1997-2025 Linley Henzell, the dev team, and the contributors.

Crawl is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.