Employment does not include a dental plan.Īpart from the delves, you’ll also manage the hamlet surrounding your family estate. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, die trying = permadeath. It’s a squad based tactical combat game in which each combat ratchets up the tension until you either succeed at your quest and gain the rewards or die trying. It’s a bit of a roguelike, but not really. Problem is, the critters they discover on their journeys are mean and yucky, which translates into your adventurers either dying or going mad with all the hard work you put into building up your troops dissolving in the blink of an ichor dripping eye. It’s basically XCOM mixed with Lovecraftian fantasy, meaning you send squads of adventurers on quests not to hunt alien invaders, but to gain loot and unlock more of the eldritch mysteries surrounding your ancestors. I’m not sure I need to praise the gameplay of Darkest Dungeon more than it’s already been lauded over the past few years. Et tu, Brute? - Shakespeare’s Hamlet (probably)

The Steam version of Darkest Dungeon has been available in its full version for nearly two years, and it was available in Early Access well before that. Now there’s a tablet version so you can get depressed on the couch. If games like FTL or Don’t Starve haven’t scared you off, then Darkest Dungeon will be right up your alley. It’s also a lot of fun if rare success against overwhelming odds is something that trips your trigger.

It’s brutal and unrelenting and frustrating as hell. A dungeon romp in which your chance of success is lower than being struck by lightning.

“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for any man to actually succeed at Darkest Dungeon.”ĭarkest Dungeon is a bitch of a game.

Darkest Dungeon Tablet Edition review