It’s not difficult to learn the system, but seeing that you tend to have adventurers coming and going all the time, it’s very complex and doesn’t get dull. It’s a roguelike dungeon-delver that has a strategic turn-based battle system that hearkens back to oldskool tactics and RPGs. What is Darkest Dungeon? Slice, slice, slice!ĭarkest Dungeon is a conglomeration of a lot of gaming elements, which is one of its strong points.
Note: Non-Kickstarter folks can pick up a copy on Steam starting tomorrow, February 3rd. I don’t know if the team has a lot more features in mind on down the line, but what is there is extremely challenging and very fun. I know I’m not anywhere done with it yet!Īs far as early access games go, and I’ve played a lot of them, Darkest Dungeon feels very close to a polished release. I got my early access copy last week, and spent about 5 hours with this game over the weekend (which looking at my Steam records, you know that’s pretty good).
Last year, I helped fund the indie game Darkest Dungeon through Kickstarter.