Comment on Curing Ironshank in Caves of Qud made me feel like I'm playing NetHack CoQ’s
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago Right. I like playing all roguelites in permadeath and have the death be part of the lesson, but this game just felt frustrating. I realized very soon that you can barely play the game unless you research how a valid beginner strat is.
I found it much better when played in Roleplay mode. It becomes a very solid open-world RPG. I generally don’t like when permadeath games have runs that last for hours and hours. NetHack, Angband, CoQ… Never could understand their appeal because of that.
I’m inclined to agree. Roguelikes shouldn’t have runtimes of days.