Posted on: January 30, 2025
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Darkest Dungeon® II
Description
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
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30.47%
Rush Hour
Clear the Sprawl
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36.61%
To Grandmother's House
Clear the Tangle
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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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67 h Main + Sides
93 h Completionist
54 h All Styles
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8.5/10
When I found myself shouting in relief and frenetically raising my fist in the air after a hard battle ends in my favor, I can’t deny the following fact: Darkest Dungeon II is a harsh but fantastic game whose white-knuckled battles and hazard-filled exploration will trap you for hours. If you’re willing to make the needed sacrifices, it’s a journey well worth taking.
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Recommended
A copious and often brilliant, if not quite unmissable reworking of a powerfully grim fantasy.
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8/10
Darkest Dungeon 2 takes a bold new direction for the turn-based tactics ideas established in the first game, but its early hours lean heavily on randomness and it can be a trial to stick with it until you see the light.
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Posted on: June 5, 2025
drulethan
Games: Reviews: 1
Balancing games is hard
I tried confessions and in this game mode progress is lacking too much. It feels like 50 steps back and only 1 forward every time you get wiped. Kingsdoms is much better and does give you a feeling of making (some) progress, but still grinds you down. I did not do the easiest setting though. The game is fun, but just too unforgiving. By the the you learned the mechanics you're fed up with it. If you get too frustrated (like me) you can make a backup of the save games and restore it.
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Posted on: August 22, 2024
CountingKittens4
Verified ownerGames: 56 Reviews: 7
different but great
Different from the first game, but in a good way. Why make something that we already have again?
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Posted on: March 2, 2025
gregfont
Verified ownerGames: 43 Reviews: 1
3 hours in, feels like DD1 is more fun
3 hours in, feels like DD1 is more fun
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Posted on: September 11, 2025
RighteousJon
Verified ownerGames: 5 Reviews: 3
Play the Original Instead
This is a Rogue-like game with turn-based combat. You assemble a team of 4 characters and venture across a ruined, apocalyptic world in the futile hope of somehow saving humanity. Caveat: this game is a sequel to Darkest Dungeon, and superficially resembles the original, but it's a *totally different game*. In the original you manage a roster, equip your team for a mission, and then attempt to survive the mission. This game is structured more like Slay the Spire, with a branching path you must follow from node to node--no backtracking allowed. However, you can start over anytime you like and your characters miraculously come back to life. I played this game for 11 hours before giving up in disgust. THE GOOD: - The graphics and sound effects are *amazing*. They are perfectly thematic. - I like the little stories they developed for each character, which you experience as you unlock their abilities. They are creative and interesting. - It's apparently no longer possible to lose the campaign THE BAD: - They took everything good from original game and mixed it up into something bad. This game is ***not*** fun. - They've reduced the game from a 360 degree challenge of dungeon delving into a series of combat encounters. It got dull for me really quickly. - The "combo" feature in combat is overly difficult to pull off and vastly underpowered those rare times when you do manage it. - You start out miserably weak compared to the bosses and looking down the barrel of an endless slog to grind your way up to being able to beat them. - The relationship mechanic really ruins this game. - Quirks are usually negative and annoying, inflicted constantly, and very difficult to remove, making this another nice little bit of suffering for the player.
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