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Darkest Dungeon®

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Darkest Dungeon®
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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.Reclaim Your Ancestor's EstateRecruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimagi...
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93 %
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PC Gamer
88/100
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9/10
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4/5

( 453 Reviews )

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2016, Red Hook Studios, ...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista/ 7 / 8 / 10, 2 GB RAM, Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 2 GB available space, 1080p...
DLCs
Darkest Dungeon®: The Shieldbreaker, Darkest Dungeon - Musketeer, Darkest Dungeon Soundtrack, Darkes...
Time to beat
56.5 hMain
85 h Main + Sides
128 h Completionist
80 h All Styles
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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


"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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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
56.5 hMain
85 h Main + Sides
128 h Completionist
80 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9.0+)
Release date:
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Size:
1.7 GB

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Posted on: May 9, 2020

guy799

Games: 28 Reviews: 2

I don't get tired of this game!

I've played this game for over 500 hours, what more can I say. Normally, I get tired of games, not of this one. At least this is the case in the base version + (optionally but recommended) the Shieldbreaker add-on. Unfortunately both The Crimson Court and The Color of Madness experiment with the formula (e.g. dungeon size) and end up feeling like work to me, but the basegame hit's my sweetspot. The story is lovecraftian, but the graphics aren't gory. The game can be unforgiving and random but this almost always can be mitigated by taking advantage of all the opportinities you get (e.g. bad things happen on high stress, so kill the the stressers first, have the light be close to 100%, take a proper healer with you, know -may even look up- all possible item interactions, purge the "bad" negative quirks, even if it costs money, the bosses are all vulnerable to specific strategies, don't expect that you can succeed over them by brute force). Once you're aware what the game can throw at you and how you can mitigate things, you've got one of the best turn-based strategy games ever!


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Posted on: May 11, 2021

BastianWeaver

Verified owner

Games: 426 Reviews: 33

Great embodiment of a bad idea.

Darkest Dungeon is a very well-made game. The music, the voiceover, the monsters - all work to create the athmosphere of Lovecraftian horror. Learning the world of the game is fun. Interacting with it is fun. The problem for me is the idea that lies in the base of the game - making the best out of a bad situation. It is just too bleeding blighted horrified irrational hard. Heroes die because you make wrong decisions, and also just because. You're supposed to fail. A lot. And when you fail, there's no "but you get better!", you just fail. The heroes are just buried. The quest just remains unfulfilled. The makers primise you a bad situation. They deliver.


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Posted on: June 18, 2017

oferas

Verified owner

Games: 151 Reviews: 4

Oh... The pain!

I simply love this game, it is so unforgiving and has a unique atmosphere. Be very sure before making a step and always know when to withdraw, or you will likely lose a character/s. when you play for the first time, don't worry about restarting the game a few times until you understand where you at. The battles are tense and intriguing, turn base were always my favorite genre. Buy and enjoy!


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Posted on: April 17, 2020

Isenne

Games: 1 Reviews: 1

<3

The best dungeon game. I still remember all characters that I loved and I could not save them in the fight. Very atmospheric.


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Posted on: October 12, 2020

Roy.A_

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Games: 186 Reviews: 1

Learning to deal with failure.

Darkest Dungeon is a tough and well-designed dungeon crawler that tests your ability to manage resources while dungeon crawling and managing how you invest in the local hamlet upgrades. The premise is that you inherit your ancestor's manor and now must deal with the eldritch forces he meddled with in the past. General gameplay: advancing in teams of four, your heroes move left to right, dealing with enemies, artifacts found within dungeons called curios, and building up towards each boss of the relevant area. Each hero has a range of abilities you can unlock and upgrade - switching them outside of battle as necessary - and improving their equipment for better stats. The heroes' ranks do not reflect their overall stats but their "resolve" and will be able to take on higher rank quests. Combat: Turn-based, RNG based combat is the meat of Darkest Dungeon and it can get frustrating because well-planned runs can go awry due to a few bad rolls. That being said, you can definitely give yourself an edge using trinkets to improve stats and rolls, and picking heroes and abilities to adapt to the enemies that you know will appear in a given dungeon, e.g., don't bring bleed abilities to the cove because blight's more effective there. The game itself is not difficult to play, the rules are simple and all town upgrades are permanent so unless you're on the highest difficulty (has a time limit to finish the game), the game doesn't actually have a fail state. Everything in town costs money or resources EXCEPT the heroes - they continually turn up in the hopes of gaining treasure and glory. So even if you lose everyone, at least 4 more will appear, then you just have to send them out to get some gold and reestablish yourself. You must learn to accept your losses and try again.


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