Posted on: July 31, 2017
mirnesen
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Challenging
The hard in an awesome way
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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: November 1, 2017
borsook
Verified ownerGames: 389 Reviews: 6
Great game, strange controls.
The game is wonderful, challenging but giving you a lot of room to improve your tactics, the difficulty does not feel random at all. The graphic while simple are very atmospheric. My only gripe is the control scheme, the game should be perfect with the controller, unfortunately all the tutorials talk about mouse/keyboard and controller buttons which are displayed are PS controller only. I understand that maybe programming the game to recognize controller is not easy, but at least they could put a manual option to switch to Xbox one which would switch the names of buttons. Seems like a 15 minutes job and yet has not been done yet. Still, the game plays well and despite some quirks is a great old school tactical crawler.
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Posted on: May 3, 2020
Uvhash
Verified ownerGames: 217 Reviews: 6
Waiting for the multiplayer
I guess I wouldn't finished the last few levels just because how much time I have to spend. Still, I am waiting for the multiplayer add-on, so I can play with my friend. I heard they are developing it (finally!). So let's wait......
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Posted on: July 31, 2021
YourMirrorImage
Verified ownerGames: 228 Reviews: 2
Don`t Do It.
Love the idea but hate the execution. Random numbers generator? Okay; just as long as it`s fair to the player; but it`s not. Avoided getting this game until years later when it was on sale for $7.49. Got it, sat on it until I got a new computer (Old one died) , and then installed once I got a new PC. Tried several times going through different strategies, even using videos and articles to help, but nothing worked. All you do is die while accumulating money and items where if you collect enough you get to upgrade certain areas (Stage coach, Blacksmith, Sanitarium, etc.). This is not what I call fun when it comes to gaming. As many others have said, I should have listened and I`m glad they only got me for $7.49. Again; love the idea, hate the execution.
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Posted on: June 28, 2025
MrAmsus
Games: 250 Reviews: 1
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