Darkest Dungeon
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 through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system. The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks! Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
Steam User 95
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
Steam User 86
I picked up a game to help rid me of stress after work. It did not work. 10/10
Steam User 93
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
Steam User 66
I tried uncovering the secrets of my ancestors and all I got was severe mental illness. 101/10, would lose self to madness again.
Steam User 74
Darkest Dungeon is a wonderful, genre defining classic that helped me through one of the most stressful years of my life. Hamlet became a place of respite and booting up the game was one of the few joys I got out of life, as pathetic as it sounds.
I will try to put it bluntly, DD is not a grindy or hard game people make it to be. It is very easy to accrue wealth and heirlooms by abusing the low light reward mechanics and using antiquarians. Stunning and stalling are so comically overpowered that the devs had to nerf them in the sequel. Don't be intimidated by the illusionary difficulty of the game, and you will discover a gem with amazing, Lovecraft inspired writing combined with outstanding narration and a beautiful soundtrack that complements each other perfectly.
All of the DLC's are worth buying, I wouldn't recommend activating them in the first playthrough though as it might prove to be problematic because of the extra layer of complexity and difficulty they add to the game.
So, steel yourself, and remember, there can be no bravery without madness.
The Old Road will take you to Hell, but in that gaping abyss, we will find our redemption.
Steam User 76
My favorite part of the game is when an enemy hits a character with 93 dodge for critical 33 damage.
Steam User 121
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.