Dungeons of Dredmor - Preview @ RPGCodex

Another big difference between Dredmor and other roguelikes can be seen in the way food is handled. There is no starvation in Dredmor. That being said, in order to regenerate hit points or magic points at a reasonable rate, you need to eat food or drink booze respectively. Since in the Big Three roguelikes you can regenerate mana and hit points by just sitting around (often quickly enough that running around a post in order to heal yourself is a viable tactic), I don’t really see this as an example of dumbing down the genre. In the other games, you essentially trade food for hit points when you camp out (time not spent exploring makes you hungry and brings you closer to starvation), whereas here you eat something in order to regenerate.

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skavenhorde said:

LOL, no information really, just a hunch because of the price and their carefully worded "non-update". I have a feeling that Steam convinced them that five dollars was the way to go and from the trouble their having with this "large" distributor it just sounds like Steam to me. Who knows if it's Steam or Impulse or GamersGate, but I'm willing to bet it's Steam.

I hope they release the next one by themselves and then a major distributor. I'd much prefer to buy the game directly from them, but I'm not against adding it to my Steam/Impulse/GamersGate library.

A thought just accord to me. They'd be perfect for GoG. They're already at 5 dollars which most of the games on there are. I hope I'm wrong and they're going to GoG. That would be perfect.

RPGCodex's reviews are almost always well written. They can be a bit heavy of the spoiler side at times, but still they take a good look at a game and surprisingly enough judge it on it's merits alone. At least that's the case I found with the reviews I've read. The forums are like a whole different entity.

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