fortune_p_dawg: Cardinal Quest is awesome!
EC-: I'm tempted to pick it up and give it a go. At just $5, it's not a high risk investment.
It's a very purely distilled roguelike, boiling out the stat and gear management, instead opting for an automatic route where your character will decide if the gear is better or worse than what he has (how staffs are better than daggers, I'll never know) and stats are managed behind the scenes (though I think you can still view them). It makes it so that the only two things the player has to manage are traversing the dungeon and managing which skills you want equipped.
It adds up to a simple, accessible experience that provides coffee-break fun. I think I've made it to like level 5 at most right now. The environments are a bit drab, mostly just changing color from floor to floor, but it's not a bad game at all.