This varies pretty dramatically by how careful an individual player is (as well as whether or not autoexplore is used) but to provide a data point, I would say I’m probably 6.5/10 self-rated careful (increasing sharply from 4⁄10 to 8-9/10 after I get out of the early floors and get a sense that I’m well-positioned to go deep) and my first victory took about three and a half hours. However, I’ve gotten very close to victory in other runs in closer to 2-2.5 hours.
Most games will be shorter than that, many significantly so. There is a website that provides statistics for people playing the web version of the game—http://brogue.roguelikelike.com/#gameStatistics—but total game length isn’t part of it. You can get a sense of difficulty as well as the distribution of where/why runs often end, which can help give an indirect sense of length.
This varies pretty dramatically by how careful an individual player is (as well as whether or not autoexplore is used) but to provide a data point, I would say I’m probably 6.5/10 self-rated careful (increasing sharply from 4⁄10 to 8-9/10 after I get out of the early floors and get a sense that I’m well-positioned to go deep) and my first victory took about three and a half hours. However, I’ve gotten very close to victory in other runs in closer to 2-2.5 hours.
Most games will be shorter than that, many significantly so. There is a website that provides statistics for people playing the web version of the game—http://brogue.roguelikelike.com/#gameStatistics—but total game length isn’t part of it. You can get a sense of difficulty as well as the distribution of where/why runs often end, which can help give an indirect sense of length.