Managing your consumables is an important skill to learn, but the first lesson is that it’s better to die with an empty backpack than one full of items that might have saved you.ĭredmor has a relatively deep crafting system that comes at the cost of dramatically increasing the already formidable headaches involved in inventory management. Potions, wands, food, mushrooms, bombs, acid flasks – anything and everything you find serves a purpose (even if that purpose is to be transmuted by the Horadric Lutefisk Cube and tithed to the Lutefisk God). Inventory plays a big role in combat as well. you don’t have to worry about stacking percentage modifiers onto flat increases, or how stats boost or interfere with one another – plus-two damage is plus-two damage, and that’s as far as it goes) keeps things pleasantly simple and transparent. A couple more games in, and you should have a good idea of which stats to prioritize. The sprawling system can be a lot to wrap your brain around, but after a few games it should make enough sense that you can make reasonably informed decisions about equipment and skills. Leveling the same skill set a different way gives a drastically different experience, not to mention trying whole new combinations.ĭredmor uses a few dozen tiny icons to represent its many different statistics, from Necromantic Resistance to Caddishness and Block Chance. Some boring passive increases pad out the skill paths, but most of the choices grant powerful new abilities or “procs” that randomly activate during combat with interesting effects.
The skill system is simple, giving players a single choice per level-up that can bring any of the seven skills you picked at character creation to the next level. Your first few hours with the game, however, will mostly be spent laughing out loud at the massive volume of nerd culture references, puns, and jokes that Gaslamp stuffed into Dredmor.Īside from chuckling, playing Dredmor is about bashing monsters, leveling up, exploring the randomly generated dungeon, and working the loot angle. Starting out with your choice of seven skills and a few crappy pieces of beginner equipment, players attempt to make their way through the dungeon’s many levels to defeat the big baddie at the end.
The rest of the game doesn’t clear that high bar, but this indie roguelike hits enough of the right notes to be one of the best five-dollar gaming options for your PC.ĭredmor is a classic 2D turn-based dungeon crawl. Judging Dungeons of Dredmor solely on its charm and wit would make it a Game of the Year contender.
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