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Posted on: August 30, 2019

Gekko_Dekko

Games: Reviews: 5

Decent game. Terrible linux port

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

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Posted on: June 2, 2020

nwsaccol106

Verified owner

Games: 338 Reviews: 3

Great, Challenging, Dark and Creepy

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.

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Posted on: June 6, 2020

73vwtodd

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Games: 413 Reviews: 9

Really interesting twist on an RPG...

The mechanics and story intrigued me, but it was the game play that kept me. I wasn't sure I was going to like it when I started, but once I figured out how everything worked, I learned to really appreciate the game. There is no save and re-load feature of the game... you literally have to plow through and get an unlimited stream of new recruits to help you on your mission. Lots of quirks to playing the game well... very much an enjoyable game... highly recommend.

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Posted on: September 22, 2020

softstring

Games: 114 Reviews: 1

Ultimately frustrating

I own this game on steam, but I played with the thought of buying it again on GOG but decided against it because of the reasons below. The games strengths lie in the superb atmosphere and punishing combat system. Especially the narratr and sound design draw you into the game and perfectly amplify the ups and downs during combat. The combat itself is turn-based usuallly you facing 1-4 enimies at a time with your 4 heroes. It heavily rewards forsight and knowing how to tackle certain enemy compositions, be it through stunning priority threats or apllying DoTs to wear down enemies with high physically resistance. Additionally enemies and heroes can use certain abilities only when standing in a certain position, same as enemies. Minimizing the amount of wasted turns through displacements and exploiting the mechanic against your enemies is another way to get through the combat. Which leads to my biggest complain. The game heavily emphazises from the beginning that you will lose battles and puts it upon you to manage the losses and bounce back. The reason being is that it is heavily RNG driven from the missions you can choose at any time to the combat with hit-chances, crit chances, damage ranges and turn orders. Enemies especially in more difficult missions will frequently outspeed you, frequently dodge your attacks and will heavily focus down vulnerable and/or low health heroes. This all comes together in the infamous four spider encounter who combine all the mentioned aspects and lead quickly to a dead hero. Unless you heavily exploit certain team compositions combined with high knowledge on the combat mechanics and AI behavior or simply having absurd luck, you will lose heroes, often without any error on your part. This becomes frustrating because over the course of the game heroes need investment through upgrading abilities and equipment. Losing those investments lead to a frustrating grind that cannot be avoided even on the lower ("radiant") difficulty.

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Posted on: January 2, 2021

MachinTrucChose

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 6

This isn't a game, it's a system

A very poor game in a genre I usually love. I'm surprised to see it so appreciated. This is not a game with intuitive mechanics. The only way to win is to memorize every enemy and their skills in every area at every difficulty. Yes I said memorize: you can't just hover over the enemy and see what it can do, even after you've seen them do it tens of time. You gotta look it up in the wiki. None of your own characters' skills are intuitive either. You also have to memorize arbitrary things like "if in position 3, Crusader can use Lance to attack enemy positions 2-3-4 and advance by 2 positions". It's all too artificial for me to be enjoyable. The mood is lovely, but is wasted on this game. There's no characterization or dialog, heroes and enemies are just cardboard cutouts with numbers on them.

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