Short analysis: fun, but potentially problematic to enter when easily frustrated. Also, five dollars.
Dungeons of Dredmor is a game of strange skills (Fleshsmithing!), stranger monsters (Man-eating carrots), humor and a lot of dying. The humor can range from the framing of your hero status as unfortunate, to the inscriptions scribbled on the dungeons walls or the strange location names such as "The Manse of Queens" and "The Disquieting Fjord". Also, there is lutefisk to be offered to a lutefisk god, which is equal parts horror and amusement to me and pure amusement to my friends who have never physically encountered lutefisk. I prefer lefse, but such would be too tasty to go about offering to strange gods.
But, back to death. I have died to traps, my own potions, numerous monsters, and the occasional angry horde produced by a monster zoo. Sidequest spawned bosses proved a particular cause until I resolved to stop accepting such. Given the inclusion of permadeath, and the enjoyment of testing various selections of skills, death is more a setback and a scoreboard than a great irritant.
There are other things that prove irritating. My leap ability rarely seems to function, especially not for crossing moats. And my mustache golem has received an unpleasant death at my hands several times simply to prevent my character from being trapped behind it. Then there's my avatar's habit of pacing back and forth in front of a door several times before opening it, and how inconsistent the Uberchest(TM) is in unlocking.
For whatever reason, the Steam overlay also refuses to work with the game. Which could save my friends from random strange internet poking, but requires me to constantly tab out to communicate with them.
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