What variant is recommended for a not overly long winning time?

[LyzbietCorwi]

So, just to clarify, what I'm asking over here is not what variant is easier or such, but which one, in a winning run, offers a smaller amount of time.

For instance, Angband with it's 100 levels takes about 30 or so hours, I reckon. Even though I like the gameplay it offers a lot, I always get a bit tired when I'm about DLVL 30 or so, and end up losing interest in the run.

So, something that would offer a winning run of 10 hours max would be great for me. Is there any (preferably more than one ) variant that offers this kind of experience?

[Gwarl]

Sil and Quickband

[LyzbietCorwi]

Sil and Quickband

Thanks for the recommendations! Do you know if any of them offers some kind of dungeon branches?

[Gwarl]

Neither. Adding extra dungeons is for variants which are longer than V, not variants which are shorter.

It may not be kosher to say so but I think the game you want might be DCSS

[Patashu]

Neither. Adding extra dungeons is for variants which are longer than V, not variants which are shorter.

It may not be kosher to say so but I think the game you want might be DCSS

Yup, especially since even a durdly player like me only needs 8 hours to beat DCSS (about the same amount of time I take to beat Quickband, lol)

[Pete Mack]

Heckz, even V doesn't take all that long.

[debo]

Poscheng and its predecessors are generally longish games, but picking Berserker makes them much, much shorter. Android Berserker is especially cute in this regard.

[nikheizen]

Angband with it's 100 levels takes about 30 or so hours, I reckon.

I think maybe you should just play faster....

[Djabanete]

I know you didn't ask for something easier, but in line with what debo was saying, if you play an Android Berserker on Munchkin mode in one of the Hengband variants, a 4-hour victory can be quite satisfying :-)

[Pete Mack]

I think maybe you should just play faster....

Yeah, it's possible to win V in well under 24 hours. (I've never timed it, so I can't be more precise.)

[LyzbietCorwi]

Yeah, it's possible to win V in well under 24 hours. (I've never timed it, so I can't be more precise.)

Oh, I forgot to say that I'm not that much experienced at Angband, so everytime I get a really good run going, I start to measure every single step I do...hence why I think it takes so long for me.

[LyzbietCorwi]

I know you didn't ask for something easier, but in line with what debo was saying, if you play an Android Berserker on Munchkin mode in one of the Hengband variants, a 4-hour victory can be quite satisfying :-)

I'll try that! I take that an Android Berserker is a pure melee character?

[CyclopsSlayer]

I'll try that! I take that an Android Berserker is a pure melee character?

Total inability to use Scrolls, Rods, Staves, Wands, or item activations. About as pure melee as it comes. Even Bows are weak.

[Derakon]

And as an android, they level up by equipping better gear, which means they don't even need experience and can start the game off extremely strong just by buying/finding some heavy armor.

[CyclopsSlayer]

Did one and at L1 I ran the Thief Hideout, the reward was a Long Sword of Force, bam!, took me to L8 in the first minute of play.
By the time I was done with the Wargs and Smeagol it was L15 and dual-wielding for ~340 damage a round.
LOL

p.s. It seems to have Easy_ID built in, and from my finds so far I wonder if it doesn't have Luck as well. Fang's collar, a Phial, 2x Excellent bits of armor, and the Long Sword from hell by 500'???