Darkest Dungeon®

Despite the many different opinions on Darkest Dungeon due to its difficulty, lore, unforgiving randomised nature and whatever else has surrounded this game I decided to get it while it was on deal believing it would kill some hours for a low low price. As with most games declared to be too difficult and unforgiving the problem lies with the expectation of what the game offers. This game is supposed to be unfair, if you can ignore the nature of this where it's actively attempting to foil your plans with random criticals at the worst possible time it's pretty fun. However what I cannot forgive is the amount of grinding required to progress through the game. I've spent what must be over 30 hours on one playthrough and I'm not even halfway yet because of the sheer amount of grind required to improve your characters and upgrade the town. Any game, whether it be Darkest Dungeon or the multitude of MMOs that pad their playtime with weeks upon weeks of grinding to make the bare minimum of progress is not fun. Repeating the same actions and missions, trying to scrouge up enough heirlooms to upgrade your town services is not fun. Grinding is the bane of video games akin to gambling. If you aren't willing to sink 30+ hours into repeating the same missions with low level characters then you should not buy this game. It's a real shame where an otherwise fantastic game is let down by one aspect to pad the playtime.

This was a very good rogue-like game when it came out. However think twice before you buy it today. After the DLCs came out, there were patches in the game that introduced changes making the game much harder without the DLC content. I enjoyed playing this game and came back to it now, after months of not playing it. I didn't buy any DLCs, so imagine my surprise when in my supposed-to-be vanilla version I got to fight a new enemy with a hint window at first encounter saying that one of the best ways to defeat him is to use Shieldbreaker abilities which is a DLC character. This is outrageous politics from the developer at the level of EA. If you want to buy this game, know that you need all DLCs, and even then be aware that you are supporting shady practices that we as gamers should not allow at any point.

The game has a very compelling and fun start, but I wish I had of read how much the rng ramps up in the later game. You can grind out a team over 4-5 hours of gameplay and the game will roll a seemingly unstoppable series of events. In the last session before I deleted the game, it hit 8 crits in a row, killed two party members before I escaped. When I got back to town, the shrieker event stole 8 unique items (which was like 20 hours of gameplay). If youre the type of player who revels in grinding out long hours and doesnt mind the occasional loss of a week or two of gameplay to rng, then this game is for you. Otherwise, it is likely better to avoid it. An aside, the good news was I got the game on a $7 deal and the narrating and scripting of the game is fantastic and that was worth the $7.

It's too late to discuss the game itself - the game is a marvel. But it seems like developers don't like gog, as a result you will get an outdated game! If you are about to play the game as it is - fine, but if you would like to use mods, and there are good mods, you are in trouble. New version of the game, which is available only at steam uses new format of loc files, which many mods are using as well. So you wont be able to play gog version with a new mods - whats a shame!

The random number generator is heavily biased towards the enemy.This is not a very comforting fact considering the game relies on RNG 100%,. The game is trying to hard to be a "hard" game and It is incredibly imbalanced. Don't expect a fun experience at first. This "unforgiving" game is not doing a good job of rewarding the player either.