Darkest Dungeon®

At the moment GOG rates this game as 4.2, which would make it a very good game, but when you actually look at the reviews (all of them), the actual score is a much more realistic 3.2, which is a very mediocre game (which it is in fact in my opinion). This really smells fishy. Anyway, I am a long-time RPG and strategy gamer, and my tolerance toward grindy games is relatively high. I also don't mind difficult games too much. But I am nevertheless very disappointed with Darkest Dungeon after having played it for 20 hours on Steam. Grindy games can be saved by things like a compelling story or a cast of interesting characters, but DD doesn't even attempt to give you either. You do find journal pages in the dungeons, but since they are obviously not connected to the actual game, I didn't bother reading them after some time. There is no other story to speak of. The characters are just replaceable collections of stats and skills with absolutely no personality, so you can't get attached to them. Which is just as well since they are going to die anyway, all the time, just because of sheer bad luck. Basically all reviewers here (whether they gave DD good or bad ratings) stressed how great the art style is. I don't agree with this at all. Sure, the drawings are nice, but also just as repetitive as the gameplay is, which makes even this aspect very boring in the long run. You basically have 10 or so village screens that stay the same, boring dungeons that aren't that different from each other, and a smallish number of adventurer and enemy types. Adventurers of the same class look exactly the same, as do monsters of the same type. When you see them for the first time, they're interesting, but not for the 100th time. Many others have explained what's wrong with the gameplay because of randomness, unfairness, the grind, repetitiveness, and so on, and I absolutely agree. This is already apparent in the lower levels on easy difficulty, so I can imagine how bad it becomes later on.

I don't mind difficult games, but this game makes the difficulty just frustrating. There are so many things that can cascade and go wrong that you can just sit back and watch your party get decimated with nothing you can do to stop it. It always seems to happen more when you have a higher level party. It just got so annoying I didn't care anymore. I don't recommend playing this unless you like torturing yourself.

I tried thrice to start a new game, but every time I get to week 3 and I think I got it my heroes wipe in a level 1 dungeon because a damn necromancer appears out of nowhere and I am undergeared and underleveled to deal with it if you fail a mission (aka wipe) you lose all your progress but the level of the area still goes up which means your fresh heroes will be underprepared no matter what. I liked the art style, I lke the premise, but the game is just too frustrating, in all honesty I cannot recommend it, in other games even if you die a lot if you practice enough you'll get it eventually, not here, it just punishes you for trying

Got to give credit for the great art style, but any greatness stops there. Sure, there are strategies to beat certain areas/bosses, but it all comes down to luck really, in a frustrating way. The gameplay consistently feels broken. You will have to spend MASSIVE amounts of time grinding pointless, non-story dungeons to get the coin and character experience just to reattempt the higher bosses and final battles. This got really frustrating and boring. I uninstalled and moved on to a different game before finishing it. After feeling almost like I was consistently getting trolled by the developers playing this game, I was thankful that I only payed a few bucks for the game on sale. Won't be buying DD2, that's for sure. Too many other great, properly balanced games out there to dig in to. Won't waste any more time on the DD franchise.

English: DD was a good game, but the GoG version is dated, and you will never get new updates from Red Hook Studios. Check memeem and dadanila's reviews before you click the buy button！ Chinese: 作者已棄坑，不要買！memeem 和 dadanila 的評價有詳因。作者已弃坑，不要买！memeem 和 dadanila 的评价有详因。 Spanish: DD era un buen juego, pero la versión de GoG está anticuada y nunca recibirás nuevas actualizaciones de Red Hook Studios. Consulte las reseñas de memeem y dadanila antes de hacer clic en el botón de compra！ French: DD was a good game, but the GoG version is dated, and you will never get new updates from Red Hook Studios. Check memeem and dadanila's reviews before you click the buy button！ Polish: DD była dobrą grą, ale wersja GoG jest przestarzała i nigdy nie otrzymasz nowych aktualizacji od Red Hook Studios. Sprawdź recenzje memów i dadanili, zanim klikniesz przycisk kup！ Russian: DD была хорошей игрой, но версия GoG устарела, и вы никогда не получите новых обновлений от Red Hook Studios. Проверьте отзывы мемема и даданилы, прежде чем нажимать кнопку покупки！ German: DD was a good game, but the GoG version is dated, and you will never get new updates from Red Hook Studios. Check memeem and dadanila's reviews before you click the buy button！