One might freeze with fear, another might refuse medical assistance, while yet another might flee to the back of the party.

Allow your team to become too highly strung and they will snap in a range of unpredictable ways. The tension of the situation steadily saps their spirits, as do frequent battles and random events. Fear saturates this dark Victorian fantasy world, as our protagonist resolves to clear his family mansion of an ancient supernatural threat.Įach self-contained dungeon sees your four adventurers - picked from a random selection of knights, assassins, rogues and priests - trudging from left to right. This brutal dungeon-crawling RPG from Red Hook Studios treats your rag-tag party's mental wellbeing as a stat that's as important to monitor as health or status. And yet before long you'll swear blind that you're having the time of your life.

This is a game that delights in making you feel wretched, whether through its brutal difficulty or its oppressively bleak atmosphere. Darkest Dungeon might just have you questioning your sanity.

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