Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
New Game Mode - Kingdoms - Now Playable!...
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
New Game Mode - Kingdoms - Now Playable!
"This squalid Kingdom, these corrupted lands, they are yours now, and you are bound to them."
Kingdoms is an entirely new stand-alone strategic campaign game mode available to play now in Darkest Dungeon II.
Featuring a completely reimagined game structure, Kingdoms is a parallel game experience to the Confessions core game mode. You will be challenged to defend a crumbling realm against incursion from all new enemy factions. Manage a persistent roster of heroes, gather resources, and pursue an epic questline in order to track down and defeat the source of evil before all is lost.
Progress in each game mode is tracked separately, and you can freely switch back and forth between active sessions of either.
Kingdoms is being released in thematic modules, each focusing on a different enemy threat. The first module - “Hunger of the Beast Clan” - is available now!
Gather your courage and ride out into the chaos of a world undone.
Four heroes and a stagecoach are all that stand between darkness and salvation.
Tried and True Turn-based Combat, Improved
The ground-breaking genre-defining combat from Darkest Dungeon returns, but everything from stats to rules has been refined and improved. The all new Token System helps make your decisions impactful while adding even more depth of play.
Unforgettable Heroes
Uncover and experience the tragic origin stories of each hero. Unlock their full potential via new skills, paths, items, and more.
Roguelike Runs, Each With Its Own Emerging Story
Each expedition lasts from 30 minutes to several hours. Even an untimely end will arm you with resources that can be spent to improve your next journey.
The Altar of Hope
Engage with a massive system of upgrades and boons that opens up new strategies for each expedition. Choose what’s important to you as you formulate your assaults on the Mountain.
The Affinity System
As travels progress, heroes bond with each other or grate on each others’ nerves, leading to desperately needed combat synergies or journey-ending dysfunction. Manage their stress and interaction to keep the team together until the bitter end.
Nightmarish Environs
From the burning Sprawl to the diseased Foetor, the long road to the Mountain will challenge your strategies and your endurance.
Explore five distinct regions, each with their own unique creatures and challenges.
A Moment’s Peace
Rest your weary, shell-shocked heroes at the Inn, where you can relieve their stress and try to improve their relationships with a variety of diversions and delights.
Face Your Failures
Journey to the Mountain and face down five terrifying manifestations of your weaknesses.
Signature Art Style, Evolved
Darkest Dungeon’s genre-defining art now improved with no expense spared on 3D visuals, animation, and visual FX.
A Feast for the Ears
The audio team from Darkest Dungeon is back. Revel in an all new narration performance by voice actor Wayne June, a brand new expansive score by Stuart Chatwood, and bone-crunching sound effects from Power Up Audio.
Darkest Dungeon® is a registered trademark of Red Hook Studios Inc. Copyright 2015-2023 Red Hook Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Popular achievements
Don't Make Me Turn This Coach Around
Have a hero meltdown
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41.68%
Serenity Now!
Have a hero become resolute
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38.07%
Unfulfilled Desires
Unlock the Vestal
common
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30.47%
Rush Hour
Clear the Sprawl
common
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36.61%
To Grandmother's House
Clear the Tangle
common
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37.36%
A Place to Lay Your Head
Reach the first Inn
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50.48%
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Darkest Dungeon® II
Darkest Dungeon® II: Inhuman Bondage
Darkest Dungeon® II: The Binding Blade
Soundtrack (MP3)
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While i prefere the first game in most respects, the sequal defenetly are more approcheble when it comes to time investment.
it is much less daunting to say "just one run" and then leave it there, than playing the first for hours and hours, only to get stuck in a failure cascade that cost you your best team an a full run of loot.
And while i love the first, sometimes i do just one something a little bit ligther investemnt wise.
absolutly love that they have gone more indepth with the heroes canonical story, and they have add a lot of new and interesting enemies to slaughter
Not as good as Darkest Dungeon 1 ... could have been a lot better if they understood what the original game really had going for it and built upon those concepts. It's simplified, not as interesting, and lacks personality.
A notable improvement over the first game; conveyance is better, the grind is lessened, and some edges have been sanded down. The style, voice acting and atmosphere are all great, but once again they feel like they're built for a much shorter game, because their luster goes from charming to grating after the first dozen or so hours.
Whilst there are elements of skill in learning the turn based combat mechanics, they take a few hours to learn at most. From there the game mostly taxes your knowledge and chance against the dice; two elements that are positioned to stretch out gameplay as long as seemingly possible.
With this being a rogue-lite, there is a notable meta-progression, but one that feels substantially more tedious and grindy than it does interesting or fulfilling. Newly unlocked items being given to you for free on your next run is perplexing design that breaks runs into either a grind to improve future runs, or one where you actually attempt to beat the game, and means you're never starting out anywhere near an even footing.
Despite its high price point and production value, this is unfortunately not a rogue-lite that is built well to last. The packaging is gorgeous, but its fundamental design under the hood is terribly misaligned.
honestly for what Darkest Dungeon is you have to wonder what they could do to make a second game work. The on rail kind of traversal, the growing the team you want, everything about this is Darkest Dungeon with a fresh coat of paint and it has me wanting to play more and more
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