A demanding turn-based role-playing game (RPG) that captures the psychological toll of exploration, Darkest Dungeon carries a Gothic style throughout.

Gather a band of broken heroes, train them up, and then lead them through warped jungles, forgotten caverns, abandoned crypts, and beyond. You'll battle tension, starvation, sickness, encroaching darkness, and impossible adversaries. Uncover mysterious secrets and pit your heroes against a range of terrifying monsters using a cutting-edge strategic turn-based combat system.

In Darkest Dungeon, the player commands a group of Heroes as they descend a dangerous side-scrolling path while fighting off enormous threats to their physical and mental well-being. The player faces inconceivable foes, famine, disease, and the stress of the advancing night five hundred feet below the earth's surface. Darkest Dungeon puts the focus on the humanity and psychological fragility of the heroes.

Features

• The Affection System: combat stress as well as monsters! Face against masochism, fear, irrationality, paranoia, and other gameplay-relevant peculiarities!
• Gothic crow quill painting in a striking hand-drawn style
• You battle a variety of evil monsters in creative turn-based combat.
• A narrative framework to highlight your accomplishments and failures
• There are 16 playable hero classes, such as the Leper, Hellion, and Plague Doctor.
• Camp to give motivational speeches or heal wounds.
• Rest your exhausted, shell-shocked characters in the Tavern or the Abbey in town to reduce their tension.
• Character permadeath, procedural dungeons, and fantastic replayability are all traditional CRPG and roguelike characteristics.

Gameplay

Darkest Dungeon is distinguished by its scary cinematics, tense gameplay, and harsh Narrator. It also stands out for its dark, Gothic environment and atmosphere.

The previously idyllic Estate of the player's late Ancestor, a scion of an ancient noble family, has been invaded by corruption and monsters that have emerged from the forgotten depths of Darkest Dungeon. The residents of the poor Hamlet now have to put up with unimaginable nightmares wandering the countryside, as if suffering from disease and misery wasn't enough. The Ancestor, who dabbled with demonic spirits in search of immortality after a lifetime of wild excess, and unlocked a nightmare power buried far beneath his mansion, was the root of this evil.

After finally regretting his crimes and taking his own life, the Ancestor left the Estate to the player with the request that they rid it of the slavering creatures that are now free. The player is not alone; word of the player's Quest and the Estate's hidden treasures has spread widely, arousing the curiosity of tenacious warriors, followers of the occult, and sly rogues willing to venture into the Estate's dungeons.