While surviving physical encounters is challenging enough, it’s the mental stress that really takes its toll. Once the primary quest conditions are completed, they can return home with their loot, increasing progress bars in the region and unlocking more challenging quests for future attempts. While inside, they’ll search chests, disarm traps, and facing enemies like adventurers do. Gameplay revolves around RPG-inspired dungeon crawls, where you choose a procedurally-generated quest, purchase provisions, and send your heroes into the a series of side-scrolling chambers. In terms of execution, Darkest Dungeon‘s mechanics are fairly straightforward.

Rallying to defeat enemies and using skills to account for stress can help, but it’s usually easier to manage the health of adventurers than keep their sanity in check. Every time they face a monstrous abomination, fall prey to eldritch spells, or are simply left in the dark without torches too long, their stress levels build to a breaking point. Your adventurers are not elite champions who laugh at danger, but flawed mortals who crack under pressure. Sounds like your typical, heroic RPG, right? Well Darkest Dungeon‘s premise makes it far from typical. Now you must reclaim the estate lands in the family name, hiring adventurers who can explore its varied depths and purge this evil from the land. Unfortunately for him, he was absolutely right – and unleashed eldritch creatures onto the entire property.

The previous owner, your relative, became obsessed with rumors of a portal to magical realms buried under his mansion, and spent an entire fortune to unearth it. Press preview code provided by publisher.ĭisclaimer: This reviewer is a backer of the Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter campaign.ĭarkest Dungeon is set in a bleak, fantasy world where you have just inherited a once-lavish estate.

Game like darkest dungeon but evil