Part of the game is about upgrading various buildings in town such as the church, sanitarium, smithy and bar buy using various things found on dungeon runs. you acquire these adventurers from the stagecoach which is an upgradable area of the town. You don’t actually dungeon delve as this family member but the premise is your basically hiring and equipping these adventurers that you then send into the manor and grounds around it. After his apparent insanity and suicide you play as a relative come to reclaim the manor and right the wrongs of your family all the while learning the story of your relatives decent into madness. To summarize the story your family estate and the surrounding town/country side has fallen into massive disrepair after your family member who lived in the hilltop manor house “delved to deep” into the occult unleashing unnamed horrors that now prowl the estate and surrounding lands.

In a world of modern RPGs (and games in general) that tend to hand hold and present no challenges or consequences for death Darkest Dungeon is a breath of fresh air and that fresh air is filled with permanent character death, tactical thinking and dungeon runs filled with tension.ĭarkest dungeon is a very atmospheric side scrolling dungeon crawler with a heavy Lovecraft influence which lends itself perfectly to the game. Playing on: Steam, Windows 10 PC (2.5ghz Core2quad, HD 6450, 4GB DDR2)

Darkest dungeon crimson court level