Welcome to the Caves of Larn

Larn and Ularn are Roguelike dungeon adventure games similar in concept to Hack, Rogue, or Moria, but with a different feel and winning criteria.

This is an obsessively faithful browser-based rewrite of Larn and Ularn. It includes a few fixes, a global scoreboard, mobile support and minor updates to balance the game at higher difficulties, bumping the version number to 12.5.2.

Check out the various high score boards here: Larn High Scores

Watch live and recorded games on LarnTV

Articles

• Larn, or, I Hocked the Car to Buy a Lance of Death (GameSetWatch)
• Larn 1986 (The CRPG Addict)
• Caverns of Larn on Linux? (Old Machinery)
• Larn, Larn, Larn (Old Machinery)
• History of Roguelike Games (Ars Technica)

Gameplay Videos

• Larn Difficulty 0 walkthrough
• Larn Difficulty 22 victory
• Larn Difficulty 39 victory
• Larn Difficulty 0 1:49 speedrun victory
• Larn Difficulty 100 victory

Wikis, Blogs, Discussion

• Larn Facebook Group
• Wikipedia
• RogueBasin
• Larn Discord
• The Larn Blog (seems to be abandoned)
• Ularn Spoilers 2020

Other Version of Larn and Ularn

• Ularn.org - The original Ularn website
• dLarn - Android version based on Ularn
• NLarn - A modern rewrite of Larn with new features
• ReLarn - A refactored version of Ularn
• Ularn source code on Github
• VLarn - Based on Amiga ULarn with modifications to balance game-play
• Larn for the Atari
• Donnie Russell II's Larn Page
• Larn 12.4 on the Internet Archive

Derek Newhall has shared a detailed History of Larn and Ularn complete with links to source code and binaries for many different version of Larn and Ularn that have been created since 1986.

I can be reached at eye@larn.org. I love getting feedback and talking about about Larn.

I have been playing and learning about Larn for over 30 years. If you know about any resources I may have missed, please pass them along.

The source code for this project is available here and contributions are sincerely welcome.