Dungeons of Dredmor - Patches Incoming
 

One patch has been released for Dredmor on Steam and, reading the official blog, they are working on another after finding some glitches with the first:
More information.

Just picked up my copy, which is downloading now. Watched a few gameplay vids, and the game looks quite fun and deeper than it's "casual" label on Steam might indicate.

And they're still #2 in sales on Steam. Congrats, guys.

Did the tutorial and started playing yesterday. It's definitely got the roguelike vibe, just packaged with an upgraded interface and some whacky humor. While I doubt its ultimately casual, it may be able to draw casual people in, as the basic gameplay is deceptively simple (as in all roguelikes, but here supported by a more accessible interface) and the humor and the way they present the game makes dying often look acceptable.

It is indeed fun. :p

Just lost my first vampiric, golem-casting, berserking melee, et al., flesh smithy, due to a buff wearing off. Ah, permadeath, how I've missed you and dreaded your return…good stuff.

I've played the game a fair amount now and I think it has a lot of potential, but as a roguelike veteran I don't think it's quite up there with the classics yet. My biggest issue with it so far is pacing. Roguelike games generally try to keep you moving fairly quickly through levels that steadily increase in difficulty and monster variety. But levels in Dredmore are huge, you spend forever wandering around the first level fighting the same 3-4 monsters. Even if you aren't obsessive about exploring each level (which you probably should be in a roguelike), you still have to spend way too long there before your capable of surviving in the next one, and then you spend just as long fighting a different batch of 3-4 monsters (who really aren't all that different). I think the game would benefit a lot from reducing the size of levels but making more of them, as well as adding more variety.

But the game is new and if your a roguelike fan it's definitely worth the $5. I look forward to seeing what becomes of it.

As another roguelike player.

I must disagree. The complexity of the game is not that far off from the classics.
And there is really lot to do on each level. And many ways to approach everything.

As for variety of monsters.

I am always in favor.

I'm having a great time as well. After getting hooked on 100 Rogues on my ipad, this game I feel is superb. I really love the idea of random skills in the beginning to see what you turn up with. First time, I was talking around with a fedora which made me laugh out loud!

I wasn't complaining about complexity.The complexity of game mechanics is fine. The crafting, all the little sub skills, all the items you find, all of these are fun and up there with other roguelikes. It also has things that other roguelikes could copy, like finding different room types such as an old black smith full of crafting materials.

It's just the pacing that needs work. There are cool things to find on every level, but after a few runs you've found them all and they aren't that excitng any more and you just spend too long on each one. Monster variety would help, and so would more monster special abilties. Monsters are one area that the game has very low complexity on from what I've seen in the first few levels, there aren't that many and they all just run up and hit you. But I think the game really just needs to keep you moving from level to level faster. Even the epic marathon 20+ hour roguelikes like Tome and Adom don't have you spend more then usually about 10 minutes on an individual level, often less.

from zero interested to strangely compelled to buy, i guess 5 bones cant hurt to support a small indie w/ their heart in the right place. Looks like a good lunchtime game

been $4.50 0n steam for a few days. its interesting me too - fortunately my credit card isn't working here on vacation.

Just lost my most powerful character to a desktop crash. He'd been alive for several hours (which means he made it all the way down to dungeon level 4) so that's kind of frustrating. Guess I'm watching for the patch before I play again.

since i am new to this type of game, can you save? I read that people need to restart due to crashes and all …. ?

Unlike most roguelikes, here you have an option to disable permadeath.

I just got one of those crashes when traveling back down to level 2. I think I'll wait for the patch to play permadeath. Normal mode let's me save and continue without any hassles. As long as I save frequently I can at least load close to where I was before.

Ah that is good news !