Posted on: August 30, 2025
tailudvig
Verified ownerGames: 320 Reviews: 2
darkest dungeon
very good, can play long and replay without getting bored
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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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56.5 hMain
85 h Main + Sides
128 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: January 31, 2016
SilasOfBorg
Verified ownerGames: 580 Reviews: 3
Stylized and sadistic
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).
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Posted on: November 28, 2016
rasoft2000
Verified ownerGames: 112 Reviews: 1
Buy only if you're masochist
I was looking to buy this game and as soon I saw it on sale I bought it. Played it a lot, it's fun at start but after you get to level 5 and up it's totally unbalanced. I tried time after time with different setups, guides online, etc. but what was frustrating is that in the end it just battles are defined by simple luck and your strategy does little to minimize that. I love hard games but when hard its just defined by trying time after time after time isnt fun anymore.
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Posted on: December 10, 2016
thegreatzoro
Verified ownerGames: 100 Reviews: 1
Fun times, I recommend this game
It's unique, and pretty easy to learn, yet with enough depth to compel you to keep going. Addictive, and fun, it's a nice way to take a break from other games. After going through it several months ago, I'm about to give it another play through!
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Posted on: December 13, 2017
Kjelstad
Verified ownerGames: 174 Reviews: 7
I have to agree with Andre_geo
But I must fall into category three, I still enjoy a nearly impossible game. Some good character building/character combinations and the threat of permadeath forces you to play a game of "push your luck" from time to time. I enjoy the game. I picked it up on sale and have received my money's worth. I have received some frustration as well.
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