Today, Dungeons of Dredmor (DoD) completes five years, and still remains a great introduction to the classic style of Roguelike, while it offers a great deal of challenge to veterans of the genre.

DoD features character building, with a wide range of skills to choose; easy to understand mechanics; great dose of humor, with a lot of references to movies and games; a fantastic soundtrack (the best of this kind of game, IMHO); Steam Workshop support for mods and backup on Steam Cloud (despite the store page not show this feature). The gameplay it's slow paced, ideal for a strategic approach instead of an action-oriented one, and demands patience from the player.

The biggest bless and curse of this game, at the same time, it's the loot fest at every level. When you start playing, you'll certainly spend a decent part of your playthrough managing your loot on your tiny inventory (remember to use Shift+left click to pick up and drop items with more ease). Thankfully, the "Conquest of the Wizardlands" DLC adds the Pocket Dimension - a place where you can store unlimited amounts of loot. By the way, this game is so cheap that you should buy the complete package for a better experience.

Last but not least, I strongly recommend you to activate the OpenGL on the launch options to achieve a smoother experience, avoiding crashes caused by memory leak, while it enable the Steam Overlay. To do this, simply right click Dungeons of Dredmor in your Steam library -> Properties -> Set launch options -> type in -opengl -> press ok.

Funny fact: Everyone that claims this game it's "too easy" never managed to beat it. Funny, huh? Despite the cartoonish graphics and light-hearted aesthetics, DoD can be brutal.

Game where you can play as a vampiric dual-wielding pyromancer who picks mushrooms off of dead bodies, and is good at smithing and math.
Also you fight this skeleton overlord guy.

This is a great game!

The thing about Dredmor is that, on the surface, it's really just an average roguelike, intended to ease people into the genre by featuring colorful graphics and easy controls (with mouse support!).

But Dredmor actually does have a few things going for it:

- Workshop support.
- Witty Dialogue.
- Skill Trees (most roguelikes only have a class system, with each only having one specific ability that you're allowed to build on).
- Actually being a roguelike, in spite of its goal of easing people into the system.

Dredmor's Skills are on a build-as-you-want-it basis, so you can take a magic skill tree and pair it with a warrior skill tree with some (possibly disastrous) degree of efficiency. And with every update adding a few more skills, you can technically play a lot of classes without having to play the same combo ever again.

It's also actually a roguelike, compared to "roguelikes" like Binding of Isaac (don't get me wrong, that's a fun game, but it's not a roguelike as some people claim it to be), Enter the Gungeon, and so on and so forth.

Of course, it wins on Gaslamp's sharp wit department. You might end up chuckling at least once at all the referential humor the game boasts.

You just cant stop playing this game

Rogue-like for non-masochists

It's a beautiful, funny and easy to play rogue-like (turn-based dungeon survival), full of jokes and terrible ways to die. It has options to be played on easier modes than the classic rogue-likes, and has a lot of interesting skills to try, but it is somehow limited on the number of monsters and itens. Playing on "easy" (non-hardcore mode) you will probably hoard a lot of powerful itens that you will never use, because you won't need it. Playing on "hard" is the same thing, because you will die before you get the chance. Reading the itens description will provide some laughs. Other than that, it's an addictive light-rogue, where you can select the amount of punishment you want to have, so if you are into comical graphical rogue-likes, you may like it.

Conclusion:
Addictive and satisfying, a rogue-like that makes you laugh and lets you get to the end within less than a lifetime.

Positive points:
* Beautiful graphics
* Very funny item ans skills descriptions
* Can be played on "easy"

Negative points:
* Not much variation
* Lots of useless and repetivive stuff
* The final boss is boring

This was my first game on steam, and I still come back to play it each year.

Please buy it...the price is lower than when I got it....

please.....

just...buy the thing....

please.....

thank you for your time

I want to tell you the story of one of the most fantastic adventurers I ever created, his name is Gershwin. He began as a strange idea for the most stupid type of character I could have made. He would punch everything, get the crap kicked out of him, and drink every philter of booze he found. I crafted him and then set him loose on the first level and was amazed when he did not die immediately. I followed his adventures as he raided kitchens, punched robots to death, and drunkenly stumbled through level after level. He made it farther than any other character I had made, I formed a massive backstory for him as he went that bordered on actual fanfiction. It was the most beautiful thing that has ever happened. Gershwin swaggered onto yeat another level and began tearing through the obstacles in the best hat zorkmids could buy. Gershwin ran into a room filled with fountains and saw a single lutefisk warrior on an outcropping. He rushed over to give him what for like the gentleman adventuer he is, but the warrior must have known him by reputation as he started to hide behind the nearest fountain. Gershwin rushed over and gave him the, "Dance of One Thousand Boots." Then Gershwin realized, he had kicked the fountain in his haste as well. The fountain had landed in an immovable position and was wedged there forever. My heart broke in that moment because I knew, Gershwin would forever be bobbing his eyebrows on that stone islet. Never to adventure again. He is now the only save file that will forever remain, and Gershwin will forever be punished for my hubris. Buy Dungeons of Dredmor, have adventures, inadvertently enact a tragedy.

Now that reviews are here, let me review the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game.

Dungeons of Dredmor is, in one word, the-seriously-best-game-ever.

No? Well, maybe I'm overstating. But it's definitely one of the best -if not THE best- Roguelike I've ever played. I will always return to this game. It will constantly captivate me in its shiny roguelike eyes. Maybe it's because every character you make can have a new and exciting build. Maybe it's because no run-through is exactly the same. Maybe it's because there's actual crafting that's better than in some big name MMO's. Maybe it's because your death is always your own damn fault. Or maybe it's because diggles are so cute (but they hate you so much). I don't know, probably all of the above (definitely). I will always love this game and this game will always show me a good time. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

Negatives? The humor is sometimes a little too much, I think, like every-blooming-thing needed to be funny. Oh, there's funny in there, but sometimes you just want the flavor texts to give it a rest already. Furthermore, I guess the art style turns off some people, not me personally, but I've heard it as a complaint. I can understand that, but my advice would be to ignore it and just try it.

You won't be disappointed.

Some say that a god cannot exist. Those who say that have not met our Lord and Saviour Lutefisk. The Lutefisk is a kind giver, and also a taker, for one cannot recieve what they are not willing to give away. Thus has been taught to me by the Lutefisk. As we delve deeper, we will all be taught by the Lutefisk; we will all join the Cult of the Lutefisk. However, a new Cult is not the only thing that Dungeons of Dredmor offers.

As a roguelike RPG, gameplay is simple: run around, grab loot, kill monsters, and don't die (and not just because Lutefisk does not promise an afterlife). However, there are many fun and exciting features. An advanced set of skill selection, in the form of multiple skill trees with linear paths, keeps combat unique and different. For example, I have had builds where I run around and just kick monsters to death (yes I mean kick, as in with a boot) while dual-wielding shields and builds where I teleport in, drop mines, push monsters onto said mines, and teleport out of explosion-related danger. There are several different interactions in the game that either reward or punish you. For example, Krong, the God of Anvils, leaves blessed anvils randomly on floors in the dungeon that you can enchant your gear with. It is not until you place your gear on the anvil, the point of no return, when you find out if Krong blesses or curses you. And of course, interactions involves our dear Lutefisk. Tithing Lutefisk at a Lutefisk Shrine, a food item that offers barely any health regen, may appease the Lutefisk God, and he may give you an enchanted item. DoD also offers a completely fair difficulty curve: each floor means significantly harder enemies. Therefore, as logic dictates, you should complete the entire floor you're on for as much experience and items as possible. The only exception to this rule is random minibosses and of course, Dredmor. Minibosses are literally there to make sure you're paying attention to the game. If you're punching everything, and notice this one monster is doing half your health in one hit, you should probably use a different strategy. Dredmor is a completely overpowered piece of... bologna... but I mean, to me this makes sense. It's HIS dungeon, HIS realm of power, and you're trying to stop him. If he was weak, why would a HERO (and quite the hero you are!) need to stop him? If nothing else, this hard task merely forces you to further investigate every chest, to question every move, and to work ever harder at making that perfect combination of skills.

Another good part about this game is that it's very accessible. There are three difficulty levels, permadeath is optional (so you can save your dearest characters), there is an option for smaller floors with the same experience gain, and with DLC, there is an option for 5 more floors of grinding before the boss. Speaking of DLC quickly, two DLC packs are super cheap (2.99 USD each and actually the Deluxe edition has the game and those two DLC for just 6.99 USD), and the third DLC pack is free. Cheap and easy to get into means that casual players can enjoy as well, while advanced difficulties and more options means that the hardcore Roguelike fan can cater to their style as well.

Another important thing about DoD in my opinion is the community. This is one of the most friendly, most helpful, best communities I have ever experienced on any game ever. Most questions get answered in minutes, and the number of guides for new players is seemingly limitless. These same helpful and friendly people also make amazing mods that add even more playability to a game I haven't been bored for even a second in.

TL;DR: All in all, DoD is an accessible, fun, pun-packed, Cult-creating, deceptively simple Roguelike RPG with a good community and workshop integration. I would highly recommend this game even off of a sale, and when on sale I will attest that it's literally a "can't miss". If anybody has any questions, ask in the comments section, I will do my very best to answer them in a timely manner. Similarly, I will try to continue to edit this guide at appropriate times.

The"Your TL;DR is still annoyingly long, sir."TL;DR: Very fun, creative game; amazing community; astounding Workshop content; optional Cult participation. Worth every penny.

Before you get this game, I strongly advise that you do some research.
Not because the game sucks, it's actually one of the best roguelikes I've played recently, but because of a problem I'll describe.

The game has an auto-save feature that sometimes crashes the game (Runtime Error).
You can NOT remove this auto-save feature, which wouldn't be a problem if it didn't corrupt savefiles, but unfortunately it does.
The developers of this game even acknowledged the issue, but did nothing after 2 years of knowing about it.

The only workaround is to:
1) Turn off Steam Cloud
2) "Save and Continue" in the menu (unavailable if you play Permadeath mode)
3) Manually backup your savefiles from Windows folders every now and then, so when it happens you can replace the corrupted save


I lost a 28 hours savefile due to not knowing of this issue, and I'm not gonna recommend the game despite it being rather good. I might give this another try someday, but right now I'm stunned.
Do yourself a favor and do some research before you get this game, and you won't be caught offguard.