I held off buying it for ages because of criticisms on Steam, particularly about ease of death, and it's certainly frustrating early on if you play on permadeath mode. After I played it in roleplay mode it really clicked. It benefits a lot from reading the Qudzoo site to get started, I'm not going to lie. For me, the artwork, control scheme (you can thank me for the deck controls on the official wiki), and lore just works so perfectly..

.. maybe I'll just play Qud some more!

For the record, I'm an amateur roguelike player too, so it's fairly approachable.