Graphics 5/5 Dialogue and atmosphere 5/5 Combat and audio 5/5 Music 7/5 Worth full price.
This game is initially fun because of the atmosphere it provides, while teasing you with deeper storytelling. I'm about 40 hours in, and I still have no idea what's going on except 'kill everything' and 'the owner of those house is an evil dude'. What I do notice however, is that the 'tactics' in this game are of the absolute lowest level while being brutally punishing whenever you dare to go deeper with stress over one hundred. Any character over the initial stress level will turn your others mad too and can quickly turn a decent fight into a complete rout. Fun fact: Even if your turn isn't finished yet, if you happen to kill all enemies combat ends and you don't get to use your healer's skills anymore. This promotes drawing fights out, hoping to squeeze more hitpoints from your turns. Enemies will choose targets according to their own position (front hits front, backline hits backline) and will ALWAYS fight to the death. There's no roleplay involved, and any so-called 'quirks' that your characters will pick up are also completely random. Just got pounded to almost-death by skeletons? Whoopsy, I now developed a fear of animals! Bonus points if your hero learns how to better fight Eldritch creatures without ever having seen one. Gold actually only serves the purpose of actually completing the level-ups your heroes acquire, as well as countering any stress or disease they might acquire. They might as well have left it out. Any points this game gets for atmosphere are quickly eliminated by the immersion breaking traits and braindead combat. I judge Darkest Dungeon to be an overrated RNG-experience.
And at 1920x1080 resolution, that's really not worth the time and effort.
