Played it for about a year a long time ago, I think it was the PC version? I'd played it even earlier but it was "taking too long". Plenty of food-related deaths.
So I read all the FAQs and spoilers, it was still hard! But now I could make progress and learn some real strategy, as well as understand which spoilers were actually relevant. So after a year I was finally able to ascend.
Since then I've really enjoyed rogue-likes and other turn-based games.