Darkest Dungeon

This game is the absolute worst. It's unbelievably hard and unfair, after most of my missions my party needs like 2 weeks to recover because they're one inconvenience away from a heart attack, clinically depressed, and have the bubonic plague or some shit. I once had a whole party wipe due to 4 consecutive heart attacks.
10/10
I absolutely love this game.
This game does not love me, however.

I picked up a game to help rid me of stress after work. It did not work. 10/10

Recently took this game up again after letting it sit for seven years. Up against the 86 week time limit and with 8 heroes already dead, I wiped on the final boss of the very last dungeon and 86 weeks of game-playtime - many days of real time - went down the drain. It took me seven years to recover my morale enough to try again.
You start the game with two heroes, always the same two guys, Reynauld the kleptomaniac crusader and Dismas the cheating highwayman. In other games of this sort your heroes are always straight-backed courageous fellows who are in it to the end, but in this game your adventurers have "quirks" which are sometimes good, and sometimes bad (like being a kleptomaniac, or a known cheat). As they adventure through the dungeon they get stressed out and sometimes they'll crack and develop afflictions which cause them to behave strangely (and poorly) in combat. (Occasionally the stress will make them true heroes. But not very often.)
If they survive, they can perform stress relief activities like grabbing a drink, gambling at the bar, praying to their gods, other things of that nature, and recover enough to maybe go back and try again. New heroes will come to your Hamlet on the stage coach, ready to fight and die for you, and you will build parties of four and send them out every week to explore the dungeons, get gold and trinkets, level up, and upgrade their equipment at the Hamlet (which you also upgrade to get better heroes, better equipment, better skills, and better stress relief activities). Ultimately your final goal is to go into the Darkest Dungeon, four times, to stop the unspeakable horrors that dwell there from taking over your world.
Death of a hero is almost always permanent, and on Stygian difficulty if you lose 12 heroes the game is over, or if you take more than the 86 weeks the game gives you the game is over. (You can play on lower difficulties which have no time or death limits, if you want. That turns the game more into a rogue-lite than a rogue-like. That might be your cup of tea.)
On my latest playthrough, I triumphed against the final boss with 2 weeks to spare. It felt good. Really good. On the old road, I found redemption.
Excellent game, stressful, but it is great fun to work your way through the combat puzzles, so to speak, and slowly get better and better at finding hero and skill combinations that let you tear through the inhabitants of the various dungeons. The dungeons ramp up in difficulty as your heroes level up, and they will refuse to go back to dungeons that are too easy for them, so you have to get better. The champion difficulty dungeons, for level 5-6 heroes, are very, very tough, especially the bosses. I tend to lose my heroes at the beginning, when they are level 0 nobodies, and at the end, when the highest level bosses expose the weaknesses in my old strategies. Strongly recommend, if you like dungeon crawlers.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Is Darkest Dungeon immensely frustrating? Absolutely, without a doubt - I can't really think of a game that has elicited more resentment from me.
Is Darkest Dungeon one of my most favourite games of all time? Also yes - this game oozes style from every cracked dungeon tile, with the music, art and especially narration tailoring an entirely unique experience. There isn't anything else really like Darkest Dungeon - even its own sequel! Overall, a strong recommendation from me, a rogue-like that I return to and enjoy, time and time again.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Beautifly Good
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ Repeatable grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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This is by far one of the greatest games I have ever played. This game has everything: fantastic turn-based combat, awesome characters, amazingly written story, and the atmosphere is unlike anything I have ever seen. The way the game progresses, team building, and exploration of the different dungeons hooks me into many hour long sessions every single time I even open the game. This game is so addictive to me and there are so many different kinds of runs that you can do that the game always feels fresh. Speaking of feeling fresh, there is no other game that I have felt as much of an emotional roller coaster while playing before. The way that your runs can suddenly take a dark twist at any time really makes everything pressure you into really trying to figure out what is the best possible move in any turn or at any time, even when making this move you are screaming at your screen. The more you play this game, the more lessons you learn, the more you learn about what is best and what enemies to focus down, and what trinkets to go fore. It is incredibly satisfying to do well in this game because of how much all odds feel to be against you at all times, as it is usually because you had chosen the best possible option for any scenario. Besides the gameplay, as I mentioned earlier, the atmosphere in this game is fantastic. Everything including the ambient noise, the music, and of course, the ancestor's narration, make this game's atmosphere just unlike any other game I have ever played. It truly put me at least, in the heroes' shoes. There are so many more things I could write about but you should really play it for yourself to find out what all I have talked about and what I want you to experience for yourself. Fantastic game.