Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
The player inherits a gothic estate from an Ancestor who, in his pursuit of ambiguous ambitions, excavated the dungeons beneath his manor and unleashed terrible creatures upon the surrounding lands. Now the new owner must recruit adventurers and mount expeditions into the corrupted grounds to cleanse them. As the player explores deeper, they uncover their Ancestor's memoirs detailing the horrible deeds he committed in pursuit of knowledge and power. The path leads eventually to the Darkest Dungeon itself, the source of all the corruption, where something ancient and world-ending stirs beneath the surface.
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To anyone reading these reviews who is confused by the massive swings between positive and negative, you need to know one thing: Darkest Dungeon is an emotional game. To people just starting out, it can seem baffling, unfair, and deliberately obscure. To people who have been playing since Early Access, and who have seen favourite party compositions and strategies rendered obsolete, the Steam reviews page is more of an extension of Reddit than anything else - a place to air grievances (legitimate or otherwise) over a game that they have dedicated a lot of time to. What a lot of these reviews miss out is... y'know... the actual review part. On that front, I would say the following: the core gameplay is rock solid. At its heart, Darkest Dungeon has taken a minimalist, turn-based, four-man combat system and imbued it with massive potential for tactical thought and personal flair. Figuring o
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
The stress mechanics in game affects you in real life
60 hours into the game and I write this review because I've read people mentioning the most simple and constant fact about this game: that it is brutal. Don't expect to always win, or that everyone will always survive. Somebody will eventually die, somebody will eventually go insane, and after that there's just more of that. This games throws whatever it can to make you lose, and even if you win the biggest of fights you won't always be able to win in the end. Why? Because this game takes planning and thinking forward to the extreme, and it will trick you into overextending in some way just so that you will die. And that's great. The game itself, being an RPG, has many stats and many mechanics that interact in one way or another with everything else. Then why draw a point to it? Because you must NEVER, EVER underestimate or overestimate those values. The fact that an attack has 80% of h
its like pokemon but instead of cute little monsters you collect mental disorders
Disclaimer: There is an ongoing issue with the Korean translation. In response to that, many players are leaving a negative review to stick it to the developer. In my humble opinion, the game itself is good. My level of information concerning the translation éclat is very superficial, but I must stress that before you believe any statements, please do the educated thing and research this topic a bit. Thanks for staying objective here, now on to the actual review. With age, I have come to appreciate more challenging games like the Dark Souls Series. It always takes a bit of an effort, because if you want to succeed in such games, you need to deal with the mechanics and principles behind the gameplay and deepen your knowledge. My philosophy with Dark Souls was always that it was not hard in itself as long as you listened to the game's "messages" and acted accordingly. Darkest Dungeon is
Kill 600 enemies in the Butcher's Circus
Cause 150 heart attacks in the Butcher's Circus
Win 100 matches in the Butcher's Circus
Win a match using ONLY stress against your enemies
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