One thing about Roguelikes is you die. A lot. The wonderful people testing Asterogue have been submitting log files of their gameplay and here is a table summarizing outcomes from those plays.

• level = the level achieved (there are 17 procedurally generated levels in Asterogue).
• time = the number of minutes they played a particular round for before getting killed.
• monster = which monster killed them (or if they died of hunger!).
• outcome = whether they won or lost. One tester (Roland) has won twice but I don’t have that wonderous result in the logs yet.

level  time         monster outcome
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    0   0.1     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.2     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.2     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.2     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.2     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.3         decapod lose
    0   0.3         decapod lose
    0   0.4     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.4     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.4         decapod lose
    0   0.5     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.5         decapod lose
    1   0.6     nacelle rat lose
    1   0.7      drone dyad lose
    0   0.8     nacelle rat lose
    0   0.8     nacelle rat lose
    1   0.8      drone dyad lose
    1   1.1       cyber hog lose
    0   1.1         decapod lose
    0   1.1         decapod lose
    1   1.1       cyber hog lose
    1   1.2      drone dyad lose
    0   1.5         decapod lose
    1   1.5      drone dyad lose
    1   1.8      drone dyad lose
    1   1.9       cyber hog lose
    1   1.9      drone dyad lose
    1   2.3      drone dyad lose
    1   2.3  gnawing hunger lose
    3   2.4         decapod lose
    2   2.5  gnawing hunger lose
    4   2.5       acid blob lose
    4   2.5       acid blob lose
    1   2.9      drone dyad lose
    2   3.1         decapod lose
    1   3.4      drone dyad lose
    4   4.0        cardinal lose
->  1   4.2        burrower lose
    5   4.3        gas mind lose
    3   4.5       acid blob lose
    2   4.6         decapod lose
    6   4.6       acid blob lose
    3   5.0       acid blob lose
    4   5.1       cyber hog lose
    2   5.3       acid blob lose
    5   5.3       acid blob lose
    7   5.6        cardinal lose
    2   6.2  gnawing hunger lose
    6   6.2        cardinal lose
    5   6.3  gnawing hunger lose
    2   6.4      drone dyad lose
    4   6.4  gnawing hunger lose
    2   7.4       cyber hog lose
    4   8.0  gnawing hunger lose
    3   8.1  gnawing hunger lose
   11   8.1   ghythian lord lose
    8   8.8  gnawing hunger lose
    6   8.8       pod queen lose
    3   8.9  gnawing hunger lose
    6   9.3         decapod lose
    3   9.5      drone dyad lose
    4  10.0     nacelle rat lose
    5  10.1           creep lose
    6  10.4  gnawing hunger lose
   10  10.6           drone lose
   11  11.5        gas mind lose
   11  13.1           drone lose
   12  13.2           drone lose
   10  13.5  gnawing hunger lose
    8  15.0  werecatarrhine lose
    5  17.7  gnawing hunger lose
   15  18.6   ghythian lord lose
   16  22.2   ghythian lord lose
    0  22.6     nacelle rat lose
    0  22.6     nacelle rat lose
    0  22.6     nacelle rat lose

It appears you can beat the game in about 25 minutes if you’re really good.

I do not know what is going on with those three 22.6 minute battles with a nacelle rat. Tough rat I guess.