Darkest Dungeon®: The Crimson Court

In a game with plenty of stuff to manage already the crimson curse just feels like another chore to deal with. It doesn't add anything fun or interesting -- you just lose a slot in your already paltry inventory space.

You may want to stretch your legs in Darkest Dungeon before you activate the Crimson Court DLC. Yes, you want the new class, because more classes = more fun! Just wait until you get a feel for the game before you activate Crimson Court, because it adds an impending plague to the game and makes a challenging game next to impossible. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just make sure that you're ready for it. Darkest Dungeon is every D&D fans gothic dream game and this DLC makes it even bigger. Download today...the plague is spreading...is that a spot of blood on your screen?

Crimson Court (CC) is decent DLC. However, like the base game, it suffers from the same issues. It has interesting concepts, good artwork, great narration, but poor gameplay mechanics. I think some of the worst issues have been ironed out with patches. But it is still a grindy, tedious experience, unnecessarily drawn out by a questionable disease system and overly long dungeons that have you searching for keys and running into dead ends (you'll need to look up some maps on the internet to figure out the 3 main dungeons). Still, all is not lost. There are mods that can make CC worthwhile. For a game (Darkest Dungeon) that has more than its share of diseases and afflictions already, you can mod CC to tone down the new disease or disable it all together (which is what I did). The new bosses are tough and well done, though you'll have to endure the ridiculously long dungeons to find them. CC adds more trinkets and district buildings, which are helpful in the base game as well. Once you finish the last boss fight, there is really nothing else to do. However, for $10, it's worth it, especially with mods.

The DLC adds a lot of new interesting stuff kike trinkets, districts and a new hero. Although, I recommend not to access the courtyard in early stages of the game. Let your characters build up and yourself to improve and learn new strategies. The fanatic is a tough boss, you should take for the runs a leveled up heroes with the crimson curse (minimum two infected heroes for a run). I love this game and hate it when I lose heroes. Go buy it!!!

... made me abandon Darkest Dungeon probably for the last time, on the very first foray into it. If you jsut got the game, steer well away from this one.