Darkest Dungeon (PC) for the Steam platform is available as a digital download only—no physical box is included. The price applies to this digital version of the game.
Darkest Dungeon is a game where victory isn’t always about heroic deeds and shiny armor. Instead, it focuses on hard choices, near-certain failure, and acts of heroism under duress. The combat system is both deep and complex, blending nostalgic elements with modern design aesthetics.
A New Challenge Awaits
In Darkest Dungeon, the order of your party is crucial for executing attacks and managing risks. You’ll need to train your heroes, upgrade their abilities, and adapt to evolving threats such as enemies, diseases, and psychological stress. Each decision—whether to deal damage or protect your teammates—can be a matter of life or death.
Permanent Consequences
Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike RPG where characters face permanent death. Once a hero falls in battle, they are lost for good, making strategic management essential. While your characters will die, new ones will take their place. Protect your most valuable heroes with the best stats and abilities, and be prepared to sacrifice those who are less effective.
Character Statistics
Each hero is defined by various statistics:
- Basic Stats: These include speed, damage, and protection, influenced by the hero’s level and equipment.
- Persistent Elements: These consist of “quirks”—randomly assigned positive and negative traits. For instance, “Natural Swing” boosts accuracy by +5, while “The Yips” reduces accuracy by -5.
- Diseases: Heroes can contract diseases during their adventures, which impose debuffs to accuracy, damage, and other stats.
- Stress: Heroes accumulate stress as they explore dark dungeons. High stress levels can lead to afflictions, causing severe penalties, disobedience, and stress damage to companions. Extreme stress might even result in a heart attack.
Managing these elements is key to surviving and thriving in the game’s harsh environments.
Key Features
- Classic CRPG and roguelike elements, including significant permadeath and procedural dungeons.
- Combat against monsters, diseases, and stress, which can induce paranoia, fear, or even heart attacks.
- Dead characters remain permanently deceased, so protect crucial team members and make strategic sacrifices.
- Over 80 hours of gameplay to explore and conquer.
Embrace the challenge and see if you can withstand the darkness that awaits!
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