RPG

Darkest Dungeon

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

4.2

Users · RAWG

2016

Released

Platforms

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📅 Release Info

Release DateJanuary 18, 2016

Developer

Publisher

🏷️ Game Details

Genres

RPGStrategyIndie

Playable on

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About this game

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Pros & Cons

Pros

Distinctive gothic atmosphere with a bleak Lovecraftian setting.
Party composition, positioning, turn order, and status effects shape combat.
Stress and afflictions make psychological deterioration part of combat.
Retreating, spending resources, or pushing onward creates strategic decisions.
Varied classes, procedural expeditions, parties, and events support replayability.

Cons

Accuracy checks, critical hits, and enemy effects can determine defeats.
Character death, severe stress, and lost progress compound campaign setbacks.
Campaign progression requires grinding for money, experience, equipment, and upgrades.
Stress afflictions can trigger negative spirals with limited player control.

Pros & Cons are AI-assisted summaries, not our own playthrough reviews. Sources and how we make recommendations.

Where to Buy / Play

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RPG

Darkest Dungeon

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

4.2

Users · RAWG

2016

Released

Platforms

🔗🛒▶

📅 Release Info

Release DateJanuary 18, 2016

Developer

Publisher

🏷️ Game Details

Genres

RPGStrategyIndie

Playable on

PCPlayStationXboxNintendo

Show all 7 versions ▾

PCmacOSLinuxPS VitaPlayStation 4Xbox OneNintendo Switch

Screenshots & Videos

About this game

Pros & Cons

Pros

Distinctive gothic atmosphere with a bleak Lovecraftian setting.
Party composition, positioning, turn order, and status effects shape combat.
Stress and afflictions make psychological deterioration part of combat.
Retreating, spending resources, or pushing onward creates strategic decisions.
Varied classes, procedural expeditions, parties, and events support replayability.

Cons

Accuracy checks, critical hits, and enemy effects can determine defeats.
Character death, severe stress, and lost progress compound campaign setbacks.
Campaign progression requires grinding for money, experience, equipment, and upgrades.
Stress afflictions can trigger negative spirals with limited player control.

Pros & Cons are AI-assisted summaries, not our own playthrough reviews. Sources and how we make recommendations.

Where to Buy / Play

Official stores where this game is available. Links open the store page in a new tab.

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