Never give in, never falter.ĭarkest Dungeon takes the classic tale of taking turns to run up and slap each other and tweaks it in some very interesting ways.

So you pick your party of 4 heroes from a pool of unique classes, provision them with food, torches and other items for the task ahead, then set off in search of loot and glory through a series of increasingly tough turn-based encounters.

In order to do this you’ll need money and recovered heirlooms which can only be found through exploring the corrupted and twisted remains of the estate. In order to achieve this you must recruit heroes to fight for you and work towards developing the small hamlet that acts as a gateway to the various quests that must be undertaken in order to drive back the creeping malevolence. Narratively the setup is relatively simple you are called to visit the ruined estate of an ancestor, tasked with discovering and destroying the evil that befell him and his once prosperous land.

God may not use dice, but the devil sure does in Red Hook’s delightfully grim turn-based dungeon crawler.

It has all the things that help you get attached and yet all it takes for everything to come crashing down around you can be a simple game of luck. You can rename them, tweak their abilities and the process of developing them is fun and rewarding. There is unique sadism in the way Darkest Dungeon tries on the one hand to make you care about its heroes and yet at the same time does everything in its power to mercilessly slaughter them.

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