Posted on: March 14, 2025
Marcolin0
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Incredible atmosphere
Addicting gameplay, amusing design
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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 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
- PG Gamer: Best RPG of 2016
- Game Informer - Best RPGs of 2016: 3 Awards
- IGN - Best of 2016: 2 Nominations
- IGF 2016 - 3 Nominations
- Rock Paper Shotgun - 50 Best RPGs of All Time
- PAX 10 - 2015
- Game Debate Best Indie Game 2016
- SXSW Gamer's Choice Nominee 2015
- MMORPG - Best Indie RPG (Pax East 2014), Best RPG Nomination PAX Prime 2014
- Indie Megabooth Selection - PAX East 2014, PAX Prime 2015
"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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Time to beat
56.5 hMain
84.5 h Main + Sides
128.5 h Completionist
80 h All Styles
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Eurogamer
Recommended
Punishing and beautifully crafted, Darkest Dungeon is cruelty at its classiest.
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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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9/10
A richly satisfying and wonderfully executed masterpiece.
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Posted on: April 18, 2025
iris-kalasra
Verified ownerGames: 5 Reviews: 1
honestly fairly decent
i've played for about 4 hourrs and in short, the mechanics are solid, the graphics and sound are awesome, and the difficulty is unfair in the way it advertises. like, 7.5/10 but 8/10 if you give them stupid names to get more attached.
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Posted on: April 20, 2025
MikhailZaitsev
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One armed bandit
There are plenty of RPG mechanics here if you like numbers going up and collecting things, but at the end of the day it's just a pure game of risk/reward. Something between a slot machine and backgammon in complexity, but with a lot more dressing and secondary mechanics. Can be a lot of fun, if that's your kind of thing.
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Posted on: April 20, 2025
Guts010
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 2
Fun gameplay, but a tad repetitive
The mechanics are good, and the game has good depth, however having played some time, sometimes all your team gets killed more by chance than because you failed at something. Still very good gameplay loop. Main DLC's are also very good, albeit difficult
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Posted on: June 4, 2025
areed1
Verified ownerGames: 17 Reviews: 3
Tasty Lovecraftian Goodness
The late Wayne June's vocal talents got me curious, the excellent art and appropriately unforgiving gameplay made me stay
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