Darkest Dungeon®

If your looking for side scrolling soul like game, this is it, where numbers don't mean much and death is permenant. You'll have fresh recruits all the time, so don't worry. So, that means if you get attatched to easily, hold on to everything, or don't know when to run, unless you wanna work on those, this game isn't for you. Its tough, brutl sometimes, yet not too unfair. Brutal is taking hit after hit with little to no hope. Unfair is taking crit shot after crit shot while all you do is whif. (ok that happens but less often then you think. You'll have bad luck, you'll have flawless runs. Its the gambleres motto. Know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.

Certainly unlike most other games I've played, it's quite challeging.

The game mechanic and graphic is interesting. Except that mechanic is working randomly. SPD characteristic is very strange, enemies make turn when they want, especially if it is BOSS. Also archers always died from hearth attack. I don't know why only archers so stressfull. It's look like someone from developers hate them)).

Played the game years ago, probably logged a few hundred hours. Never finished it, wanted to come back and give it another go, found the main menu contained ads with pop-up windows, obnoxious highlighting, purchase buttons in the way of other menu items. Apparently its a PvP feature, which does not interest me at all. I just want the game I played years ago. Actually ruined my experience. Played just past the tutorial until this showed up, haven't touched it since.

Fantastic narration, artistic style, and immersion in this gothic horror roguelike/hero management masterpiece. It is, as others have pointed out, quite punishing (every action is permanent) -- but also very rewarding when you start to get a feel for it and start skirting around the edges of disaster instead of blundering headfirst into it. Resources are scarce and there are meaningful decisions to make every game turn even before you decide who to send into the dark. The UI is quite pleasant, which quite a few nice little touches like "unequip all trinkets". Stability-wise, I've experienced exactly one crash in about twenty hours of gameplay. Just picked up where I left off, no progress lost. Five out of five, fantastic game at a great price (I got it on the intro sale).