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 against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease…
Darkest Dungeon is an adventure developed by Red Hook Studios, released 19 January 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $3.08 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 95 hrs to finish.
What Darkest Dungeon is
Darkest Dungeon is an adventure game developed by Red Hook Studios and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Proprietary Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player inherits a gothic estate from an Ancestor who, in his pursuit of ambiguous ambitions, excavated the dungeons beneath his manor and unleashed terrible creatures upon the surrounding lands. Now the new owner must recruit adventurers and mount expeditions into the corrupted grounds to cleanse them. As the player explores deeper, they uncover their Ancestor's memoirs detailing the horrible deeds he committed in pursuit of knowledge and power. The path leads eventually to the Darkest Dungeon itself, the source of all the corruption, where something ancient and world-ending stirs beneath the surface.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 126 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Darkest Dungeon holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 471 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 95 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 128 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.08, that works out to about $0.03 per hour of the main story, or $0.02 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM and Open GL 3.2+ Compliant. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.08 at IndieGala, 88% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Darkest Dungeon launched on 19 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Darkest Dungeon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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