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Darkest Dungeon®

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4/5

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4

453 Reviews

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Darkest Dungeon®
Description
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.Reclaim Your Ancestor's EstateRecruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimagi...
Genre:
Role-playing - Turn-based - Fantasy
Tags:
Indie, Fantasy, Role-playing, Atmospheric, 2D, show 11 more... Turn-Based, Dark, Horror, Difficult, Roguelike, Roguelite, Dungeon Crawler, Amazon Luna, Lovecraftian, Perma Death, Petting Dogs
Critics reviews
93 %
Recommend
Eurogamer
Recommended
PC Gamer
88/100
GameSpot
9/10
User reviews

4/5

( 453 Reviews )

4

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Product details
2016, Red Hook Studios, ...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista/ 7 / 8 / 10, 2 GB RAM, Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 2 GB available space, 1080p...
DLCs
Darkest Dungeon®: The Shieldbreaker, Darkest Dungeon - Musketeer, Darkest Dungeon Soundtrack, Darkes...
Time to beat
56.5 hMain
85 h Main + Sides
128 h Completionist
80 h All Styles

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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.

Reclaim Your Ancestor's Estate

Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.

Core Features

  • The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks!
  • Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style
  • Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
  • Narration system to celebrate your successes...and failures
  • 16 (and counting!) playable hero classes, including Plague Doctor, Hellion, and even the Leper!
  • Camp to heal wounds or deliver inspiring speeches.
  • Rest your weary, shell-shocked characters in town at the Tavern or the Abbey to keep their stress in check.
  • Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including character permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay



Can you stem the tide of eldritch horrors erupting across your family’s ancestral estate?

Descend at your peril!

Awards and Honors


"Butcher's Circus" DLC to this game is currently not available on GOG.

Copyright 2015-2021 Red Hook Studios Inc. "Darkest Dungeon" is a registered trademark of Red Hook Studios Inc. All rights reserved.

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Contents
Standard Edition
Ancestral Edition
avatars
wallpapers
soundtrack (mp3)
System requirements
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
56.5 hMain
85 h Main + Sides
128 h Completionist
80 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Role-playing - Turn-based - Fantasy
Tags:
Indie, Fantasy, Role-playing, Atmospheric, 2D, show 11 more... Turn-Based, Dark, Horror, Difficult, Roguelike, Roguelite, Dungeon Crawler, Amazon Luna, Lovecraftian, Perma Death, Petting Dogs
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9.0+)
Release date:
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Company:
Red Hook Studios / Red Hook Studios
Size:
1.7 GB
Links:
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DLCs
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Critics reviews
84
Top Critic Average
93 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
Eurogamerby Christian Donlan
Recommended
Punishing and beautifully crafted, Darkest Dungeon is cruelty at its classiest.
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PC Gamerby Ian Birnbaum
88/100
A wonderfully executed, brilliantly stressful reinvention of party-based dungeon-crawling, Darkest Dungeon is great fun, even when it's cruel.
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GameSpotby Daniel Starkey
9/10
A richly satisfying and wonderfully executed masterpiece.
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User reviews

Posted on: March 31, 2020

janetkooper1952

Games: 34 Reviews: 1

hard as hell ...but good

i love this game .... i have it on the switch and at first it pissed me off on how hard it was ..then i had a big OH OK moment ...relizing you have to focus on your town and what not ...not the characters so much and now its one my favorite games right now ...the music ,the characters and the atmoshpere are really great ...dont pass it upi i give it a 4.7 out of 5 dont get mad at it at first give it a chance and you will see what i mean

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Posted on: August 1, 2023

lordbuh

Verified owner

Games: 221 Reviews: 9

Too hard for me...

Darkest Dungeon has an incredibly good setting and is very well implemented visually and audio. The narrator is great, unfortunately the audio thing repeats itself over time. The difficulty is really an annoying. But overall I can recommend it. Link to my Story Movie: https://youtu.be/wFbQGj7qWyI

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Posted on: January 27, 2016

DarthOblivious

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Games: 134 Reviews: 1

Cheap, not challenging.

I've been playing this for a few days, and mostly enjoying it. Production quality is top notch. But I'm realizing that the game isn't challenging so much as randomly unfair for no reason other than to feel challenging. As an example, I just lost an entire party to heart attacks less than three battles into a dungeon against enemies that I've fought and beaten dozens of times before. There was literally nothing I could have done about it, they all just dropped one after another. I realized right there that I was done with this game. What a waste of money!

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Posted on: November 4, 2016

codifies

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Games: Reviews: 6

NOT a role playing game - missleading.

So balanced against the player, its not a challenge, just a tedious exercise in masochism. As you throw more and more transient characters into the meat grinder you soon realise there is no character progression here - they don't last that long - not really a role playing game, just an infinite meat grinder - ultimately futile, a shame its such a waste of money as there are some interesting ideas here, just overwhelmed in pointless futility...

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Posted on: November 22, 2016

schnullobullo

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Games: 172 Reviews: 2

One of the best games I ever played

One of the best games ever played. So hard to play. So uncomfortable to play. But this is the sense of it. I like those games. Inherent the feeling to loose. Never ending stress. And so on...

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