Darkest Dungeon
2016 · Red Hook Studios · ~60h to finish
It barely tests your hands at all; it tests whether you can walk away from a dungeon you have already paid for.
Long walls, many attempts. Bring patience.
Price on Steam
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The fingerprint
- Punishment drops 0.8 points — you handle this better than most.
- Assist options shave roughly 1.6 points off, if you use them.
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IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT- 20% · ~8hPunishment
the run where you first lose somebody you had grown attached to
▲ 32 - 50% · ~25hStrategy
the mid-campaign squeeze where the roster costs more than the dungeons pay
▲ 11 - 90% · ~50hPunishment
the final dungeon, which permanently consumes the heroes who survive it
▲ 16
Assists & accessibility
0/2 SOURCEDCHALLENGE RELIEF
- Difficulty modes [unsourced]Radiant mode trims the grind; Stygian adds a death limit and a timer.
HEARING
- Full subtitles [unsourced]The narrator is fully subtitled.
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What it is
A turn-based dungeon crawler where heroes accumulate permanent stress, afflictions and diseases, and death is final. Managing the roster matters more than any individual fight.
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksNearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.
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