>>35843384Yes, it is.
That's why people who kept talking about Pokémon Switch being a Mystery Dungeon game after them saying it would be a core RPG were retarded.
The Mystery Dungeon series as a whole a is literally based on Rogue. In case you can't figure out the obvious, that's where the genre got it's fucking name.
If it's not a roguelike, nothing fucking is because Nakamura (of Dragon Quest and founder of Chunsoft if the name's not familiar to you) specifically set out to make his own version of it.