until the last boss. My play time is 5.5 hours, most of which were spent trying to no dmg kill bosses for upgrades and trying and failing to kill the last boss. The save file is easily editable, but having access to all gear didn't help either... -2 stars for impossible last boss.
I fully agree with Syader's review. It would be a great game, if it had a casual or easy mode. I believe that the normal mode is actually impossible to beat - at least for me. After 5-10 rooms, you get overwhelmed by 10+ enemies, while having little resources to combat them.
but it is actually nuanced. (I don't want to spoil it, but there are many things that help in your quest, if you find / use them...) The story in pretty short. Most of the time is spent dungeon crawling, organizing the inventory and selling excess items. There are many enemy types with different move and attack patterns and some with specials like stealing stuff from you. I went with the big sword (and a bow) mostly just bashing through enemies. I have played the 1_14_38_48229 linux version. No bugs. Base game took ~30 hours, the DLC ~10 hours. (Not 100%) It got kind of boring at ~20hours, but that is usual for me. Overall pretty good.
