Posted on: October 16, 2024
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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: October 18, 2024
ron_macarron
Verified ownerGames: 9 Reviews: 1
I sold my soul to this game
I cannot explained how a game that makes you suffer this much can be so addictive
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Posted on: September 14, 2025
ManFabulous
Verified ownerGames: 37 Reviews: 1
unplayable
poorly designed game that isn't playable
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Posted on: January 23, 2016
ScaryOgre
Verified ownerGames: 497 Reviews: 3
Artistic, dark, and oh so good....
A fantastic game that has even more future potential. Reminds me of the old Nintendo game Veautiful Joe in many ways. If you were raised on AD&D and Gary Gygax, you will probably like this. It has an even darker, gothic element, but it fits and is wildly fun. Highly recommended!
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Posted on: February 8, 2016
stysio
Verified ownerGames: 173 Reviews: 3
Not as unforgiving with right approach.
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.
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