Review lizhuhwhat 5/5 · Apr 13, 2024
Grueling, punishing, exciting, rewarding - a lot of fun; a lot of stressful fun
Darkest Dungeon (2016)
Linux · Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation Vita · Xbox One · iOS
3.72 from 1420 ratings
5384 members have it in their collection · 284 playing now · 2077 backlogged · 482 wish listed
How long? Main story 72h · with extras 66h · 100% 25h (from 24 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Red Hook Studios
- Publishers
- Red Hook Studios
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Themes
- Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mystery
- Series
- Darkest Dungeon
- Events
- PlayStation E3 Experience 2015 Press Conference, PlayStation Experience 2014 Keynote
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Feb 03, 2015 (Early Access) (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Jan 19, 2016 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Mar 27, 2016 (Beta) (Worldwide) Linux
- Apr 26, 2016 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux
- Sep 27, 2016 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
- Aug 24, 2017 (Full Release) (Worldwide) iOS
- Jan 18, 2018 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
- Feb 28, 2018 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Xbox One
Also available on
- Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition (2017) · PS4, VITA, XONE
- Darkest Dungeon: Tablet Edition (2017) · iOS
- Darkest Dungeon: Collector's Edition
Related
Bundled in
- Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition (Oct 2018) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, XONE
DLC
- Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court (Jun 2017) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, VITA, iOS
- Darkest Dungeon: The Shieldbreaker (Oct 2017) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, XONE
- Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness (Jun 2018) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, XONE
- Darkest Dungeon: The Musketeer (Jun 2018) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, XONE
- Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher's Circus (May 2020) · PC, PS4
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
302
4 stars
593
3 stars
378
2 stars
126
1 star
21
Community All Reviews Statuses
Review Gobelin_Powa 2/5 · Feb 29, 2024
4/10 J'aurais aimé adorer ce jeu, mais franchement on se fait trop chier. C'est d'une lenteur ohlalala.
Review thevioletcow 4/5 · Jun 4, 2022
Certainly Addicting
I've more or less played this game twice. It's good! It's pretty good. If you have a lot of time, play it like normal. If not, I highly recommend cheating so that you have essentially infinite money and heirlooms. At some point, maybe 15 hours in, you begin to feel the resource grind, and it sucks! To be fair, I …
Read moreI've more or less played this game twice. It's good! It's pretty good. If you have a lot of time, play it like normal. If not, I highly recommend cheating so that you have essentially infinite money and heirlooms. At some point, maybe 15 hours in, you begin to feel the resource grind, and it sucks! To be fair, I like to play a lot of games and finish them. I very much appreciate a succinct experience. This is not that. Anyways, the vibe, gameplay, art, music, all that stuff is quite good. Give it a shot! Or perhaps head straight to the sequel?
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Review ivanivanovich 4/5 · Jan 4, 2022
Although at first this game REALLY stressed me out, I got back into it after a few months and had a blast for a good 100-200 hours. That said, as a rogue-like dungeon crawler, it is very repetitive. Hard was a nice challenge, but too RNG dependent for me to really enjoy.
Review BloodFlowers 4/5 · Jun 17, 2018
A devilish dive into the deepest depths of depravity
Alliteration aside, this Rogue-like horror RPG will push more than just your party onto the brink of insanity - it may just drive you mad as well. Let me just say that this game is at times oppressively difficult and almost always oozing with foreboding atmosphere. When your characters succumb to their Lovecraftian enemies, they die for good. This dynamic …
Read moreAlliteration aside, this Rogue-like horror RPG will push more than just your party onto the brink of insanity - it may just drive you mad as well. Let me just say that this game is at times oppressively difficult and almost always oozing with foreboding atmosphere. When your characters succumb to their Lovecraftian enemies, they die for good. This dynamic makes every choice and every chance you take in or out of battle a tense one. In Darkest Dungeon, the player must tread carefully but there is always a risk of disaster or death around each corner so even the most careful player will lose characters eventually... all this said, the game is gripping and addictive as it is at times frustrating. The sense of accomplishment when keeping your party alive throughout a tough dungeon is very gratifying. There exist few games that demonstrate such artful environments and atmospheres while also pushing the player to the limit of their own mental capacities. I would recommend this game to anyone interested in survival horror or rpg games, as long as they have the stomach for a very hardy challenge.
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Status GigaDeathNullGolem Jun 23, 2017
having a second go around. enjoying the updates. on easy mode.
Status Torgo Jun 4, 2016
Huge updates to Darkest Dungeon!! - http://www.darkestdungeon.com/everything-burns/
Very exciting. Lots of new features, balancing, a new hero, new items and game mechanics and "town events."
I was playing this recently but (as usual) the game completely wrecked me and sucked my soul out of my body. Once again I lost all my best heroes and all my important trinkets. …
Huge updates to Darkest Dungeon!! - http://www.darkestdungeon.com/everything-burns/
Very exciting. Lots of new features, balancing, a new hero, new items and game mechanics and "town events."
I was playing this recently but (as usual) the game completely wrecked me and sucked my soul out of my body. Once again I lost all my best heroes and all my important trinkets. So I'm actually too traumatised to play it at the moment, but I'm installing the update, perhaps in a month or so I'll have the courage to face the unspeakable horrors once again.
Status Torgo May 13, 2016
I'm slowly getting the hang of this game. It's really hard and mean, but I recently downloaded the update and the devs have addressed some balancing issues.
I was almost about to completely give up on this game after all of my characters were wiped out completely on multiple occasions, causing me to have to start over. But two little …
I'm slowly getting the hang of this game. It's really hard and mean, but I recently downloaded the update and the devs have addressed some balancing issues.
I was almost about to completely give up on this game after all of my characters were wiped out completely on multiple occasions, causing me to have to start over. But two little tips have made the experience better for me:
1. It's ok to fail. This sounds like the kind of advice I'd give someone for Dark Souls or UFO: Enemy Unknown. Let go of your characters and allow them to die if they fail. Learn from mistakes. Even send in poorly-equipped death parties and kill them intentionally to bring back a couple scraps of treasure. Retire stressed out or diseased characters instead of wasting money trying to cure them. Focus on upgrading your village and realise that heroes are expendable.
2. Cheat. Cheat wisely and cheat frequently. If you don't cheat in this game then you're doomed, so go wild googling all the help you can get. Even with google's help it's still an extremely difficult experience. Once I started looking up guides, party combinations and curio interactions the experience became much more enjoyable. Instead of simply guessing I started trying to apply useful/recommended strategies. It didn't make it easy, but it made the experience fun and slightly less hopeless.
Status Torgo Apr 30, 2016
Great, it sounds like Darkest Dungeon has received some much-needed patching and updates recently. I like tough games but some of the RNG nonsense I experienced mid-game made this almost unplayable, especially because I stubbornly refuse to look at a guide. Perhaps I'll dive back in and give it another go, though I'm still a bit scared to play it.. …
Read moreGreat, it sounds like Darkest Dungeon has received some much-needed patching and updates recently. I like tough games but some of the RNG nonsense I experienced mid-game made this almost unplayable, especially because I stubbornly refuse to look at a guide. Perhaps I'll dive back in and give it another go, though I'm still a bit scared to play it.. this game was so mean to me. :( If people think Dark Souls is hard they should try this game, it makes the Souls series look like Lego Island.
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Status Incus Feb 4, 2016
I started playing this game in the early access and I love it. I'd like to finish it, but I haven't even got to the Darkest Dungeon part yet, cause I feel like I have to kill all the bosses, cause there's a checklist with their names on them... checklists are the spawn of Satan, I swear. When I found …
Read moreI started playing this game in the early access and I love it. I'd like to finish it, but I haven't even got to the Darkest Dungeon part yet, cause I feel like I have to kill all the bosses, cause there's a checklist with their names on them... checklists are the spawn of Satan, I swear. When I found out I have to beat the same bosses on 3 different difficulties, I just plummeted into depression. Maybe I need therapy or something...
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