Much like X-Com, Darkest Dungeon is split up into 2 phases the Hamlet phase and the Adventuring phase. This game is gothic in every sense of the word and really sells you on just how hopeless this world is.Ī night out in the Hamlet will usually end up with you being eaten by a grotesque pig prince. Sounds fun, right?ĭarkest Dungeon is absolutely dripping with atmosphere, from the grimy comic book visual style, to the game’s narrator, who sounds the result of if you locked the narrator from Bastion in a room with Cthulhu for a couple of weeks. It is your job to not only restore the estate to its former glory, but to vanquish the horrors that have taken over the land and clear out the eponymous Darkest Dungeon. The game’s premise is that you are the heir to a country estate located somewhere between the Mountains of Madness and Transylvania, which has been overrun by all sorts of eldritch horrors and human evils, thanks to the meddling of your ancestors. This is not a game for the faint-hearted and yet, even in the fledgling days of Early Access, Darkest Dungeon has a ton of content for adventurers to struggle through.
This game revels in the peaks and troughs of adventuring, with a successful scouting party being contrasted by a disastrous assault against a mutated pig lord, as both you and your party members try to keep control of your stress levels. This is the average experience of playing Red Hook’s Darkest Dungeon, a brand new gothic roguelike which is equal parts X-Com, equal parts Tales from the Crypt. You hope that the bar is free after this expedition. The darkness sets in as the battle rages on. Your healer begins to cry while your Bounty Hunter has a surge of bravery, ready to take on these horrors. As you push through into the final room, you are startled by a party of undead warriors. Your Plague Doctor babbles about the horrors in the dark, while your Crusader hacks up blood from his infected wound. You’re down to your last torch as you stagger through the polluted ruins.
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