Quests will fail or must be abandoned, Heroes will die and will stay dead permanently” it states on a dreary black background as the title screen pops up. “ Darkest Dungeon is about making the most of a bad situation. It’s the player’s job to gather a group of adventurers and explore those cursed dungeons, slay the evil that has arrived and live happily ever after…if only it was that easy.Įvery time the game boots up, a little message appears warning the player that a lot is expected from them. This would sound like a great time to celebrate, but said previous owner decided to go deep into the dungeons set around the estate, pushing too far and releasing unknown evil and dread into the world. The game begins by telling the player they have inherited an estate from a family member.

That description is Darkest Dungeon at its heart, an unforgiving piece of video game entertainment, and now Switch owners get to experience all this psychological trauma first hand at home or on the go, as Darkest Dungeon‘s design is another game perfectly suited for either long or short gameplay sessions. It successfully mixed dungeon crawling with stressful party management, along with a ruthless narrator to drive home the despair felt when a trek into a dungeon backfires and the party is no longer sane enough to continue their adventures. Tweaks and additional downloadable content have been added to flesh out new mechanics, but no matter if playing the original or the complete content version, Darkest Dungeon will always be praised for its compelling and rewarding mechanics.

It eventually turned into a full release a year later, then made the jump to PS4 and Vita in September 2016.

Darkest Dungeon has been delivering twisted and awfully bleak moments since it first arrived on Steam Early Access back in Early 2015.

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