How to enable Steam overlay while playing Dungeons of Dredmor?

Solution 1:

As written here by developers is a known bug.

Steam Overlay: Looking in to this one. It’d be quite ideal to get this working.

Update: It will be fixed in next patch.

Yes! Steam overlay now confirmed to be working with the latest patch. (tweet)

When the patch 1.0.3 will be live add -opengl to Steam launch parameters to enable Steam overlay (experimental)