Darkest Dungeon®

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.

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!

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.

TLDR: https://www.gog.com/forum/darkest_dungeon/warning_nonsteam_andor_linux_users_second_class_customers_for_devs/page1 Game itself is pretty solid and may give you lots and lots of hours of playtime, if you like challenging experience, mixed with bunch of rng. And it gets even better with mods, which can enhance game in every aspect - add new classes, rework existing mechanics, etc, based on your own tastes. BUT. If you are linux user - you wont be able to experience this properly. Normally, game has a 'mods' subfolder, where you drop everything you've downloaded from nexus and other places - and then, once you launch game, you can freely (add new ones and remove existing with just few clicks) use mods from this location on per-save basis. BUT it doesnt work as intended on linux - thus you can only make mods to work by replacing game's own files. Needless to say its frustrating and remove all this flexibility of control, you should have. I've reported this bug multiple times - on steam, via email - and never got a single answer from developer (nor bugfix, obviously). So yeah - if you are linux user, dont buy this game. Not on gog, not on steam, nor anywhere else. Native port is lazy and devs have no plans to fix it - apparently they have more interesting things to do. Thus its better to spend your hard-earned money on something else

I love this game. It is a brilliant Cthulhu-like setting that is dark and creepy and feels exactly as dangerous as Cthulhu-like settings should! This game is not easy and there are some decidedly noticeable bumps in the road where the challenge really ramps up. They are clearly communicated, but I have struggled to get over those bumps in the past. This game will make you feel great about a character, then kill that character. You'll feel like you've accomplished something awesome, and then something that will happen that will make you rage quit. (This is probably 1 of 4 games in my life that has made me rage quit.) This game will frustrate you, no doubt. However, when you finally beat a boss with which you've struggled, or get the synergy in your party that you want, or get a character fully upgraded, though, it feels awesome.