Darkest Dungeon®

Darkest Dungeon is a game best described as "Diablo meets Human Resources Manager". Indeed, the heroes you're managing are just resources, weapons in human form. You shouldn't attach to any particular hero and I think that classifying DD as a role-playing game is a bit misleading. In the core of the game you systematically pick a team of 4 heroes and explore dungeons with them, hoping to get resources out of it - gold and 'heirlooms' that push you toward the ultimate goal - assaulting the great evil in the titular Darkest Dungeon. In short you put resources in (maintenance cost of your heroes and supplies) and get dosh out and spend the surplus on improving your 'prime' heroes, rince repeat. It almost never gets boring, and seeing your party being able to clear more and more dangerous missions and managing 14 different hero classes (each with a unique skill set) and picking right stat-boosting 'trinkets' - all of it is simply wild fun. The game offers several boss fights that force you to think of the optimal skills to take them down, so even the fact that most of said bosses appear 3 times each (1 time per dungeon difficulty level) doesn't take the fun away. The combat system is simple yet satisfying and involves picking a skill set for each of your 4 heroes, placing them in a row (each skill can be used on specified slot set and has it's fixed set of targets as well) and then fighting off enemies in initiative order. Animations during combat are simple, but they manage to create a feeling of powerful blows and spells being delivered (and recieved). Aesthetically Darkest Dungeon has a unique style which I would describe as Diablo-meets-Lovecraft-meets-great Flash games. It's a one-of-a-kind cartoony fantasy horror, which has a value of it's own. The creatures range from standard, a bit uninspired skeletons to Carpenters-Thing-like abominations and the deeper you dwell the more twisted the foes become. DD is not perfect, but you won't regret a penny spent.

Dobra

Game for die and try It's a game for die and try. With not so good introduction of the mecanisme of the game, one must die very often to learne everything of the rules. Especially with the heroes you take a week to bring up, they can die anytime with the special rules you must learn by loosing them. If you have time and money, you can try.

Back this game during Kickerstarter, played through earlier access and now playing the full version. This game teaches me a few things about myself that is weird and disturbing. Things like how much I can scream at my screen in frustration. Or things like how much abuse I can take but still come back for more. But seriously though, this is an awesome game. First the atmosphere. This game is an excellent example that you don't need triple A graphics to make a beautiful game. The art direction, coloring and stylized character design all convey the grittiness and brooding atmosphere of the game. The narrator's hammy and overly fancy vocabulary really nail it. Difficulty and gameplay wise. There is ironman mood and that's it. If your go to guy screw up and goes belly up, no do overs. And your guys will screw up because every 3 level, just when you think you got that dungeon down pat, they jack up the difficulty and made your veteran team feel like a punk again. Character customization is a big complex. Some character have great synergy with some character but only in certain position, but those two characters are slow have no movement skills making your formation each to disrupt. Basically, you can agonize for hours trying to figure out a team you like. Just game the game, you'd love it.

In my opinion what many people don't understand about this game is that you can't never be fully prepared for what is coming on you. Those elements of unpredictable character death, luck (bad luck mostly) and random events are what makes this game so good and real in certain way. For me it's a strategy/rpg with survival elements that gives you great feel where skillful mercenaries but still only weak humans are thrown into world of Silent Hill.