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A.Typical RPG

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9

Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos

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7

Yousei

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6

Epic Inventor

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Nice crafting system, but resource collection/ placeables dissassembly is both buggy and needlessly time consuming. the cave systems are repetitive and quite bland. If this game is tweaked to improve those areas, this could easily become an 8.

Getting to the next level when fighting a bunch of monsters will kill your character because the leveling dialogue and animation will obscure the action :-/
Monsters dropping down in the dungeon so they are eventually gathered at the bottom makes for poor balance.

Unfortunately there is a bug that makes the game crash and corrupt your save game at the same time. When trying to restart the game the launcher hangs at *placing plants*, making me a sad panda when it happens.
It seem to happen more often when several timers are running simultaneaously while the game tries to auto-save (oh, the irony...)

Still, for a first game. Oh, my, such potential. Keep on making great games!

8

Dungeons of Dredmor

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Dungeons of Dredmor is a delightful game filled with humor, sporting a nice combination of Roguestyle Dungeon crawling with skill development.
I love the number of references to books, movies, TV series and games.
The music is very atmospheric, with a bit jazzy feel to it; I really like it. The soundeffects fit right in and can be funny as well.
The graphics ooze fun, but the interface is not always clear.
-Dragging windows around can be a pain. It is impossible to see which part of a window function as drag handle.
-The tooltips of various items tend to overlap with opened windows making them impossible to read.
Another niggle I have with the game is the ratio between the vast number of different standard items available when compared to the number of inventory slots. What can I say, I am a hoarder in roguelikes.
That said, the game seems really stable and offers an incredible amount of fun for your money. Definitely recommended, but can do with some updates to make the experience even better.
I do see updates quite regularly, I was focused on them when I had multiple crashes. After a kernel upgrade, those problems were gone for a moment, so they seemed unrelated to the game itself, but now they are back. Deducting point, but in full confidence that the team will work on this and allow me to restore that ratting.
One point subtraction for a fiddly interface, the rest is solid gold.