
Patrick Waring at GameCloud writes:
"I knew Darkest Dungeon was hard going into the review; it has something of a reputation for being exactly that, but I wasn’t expecting it to be hard largely due to a lack of information. The gameplay will absolutely suck you in once you get a hang of the strategy involved, and deliberately throwing yourself into danger can be a grand ol’ time when you know what you’re doing. Reaching that point is like scaling a difficulty cliff, however, and the game will still try to keep you in the dark – both figuratively and literally. The problems it does have are fixable, however, and the developers look like they’ll be providing post-release support for at least awhile. When not stomping on your face repeatedly with the denizens of hell, Darkest Dungeon is a beautifully grisly, grim-dark world for you to immerse yourself in (if that’s your kind of thing.) If you’re into turn-based RPGs, or rogue-lite dungeon crawlers with a retro-vibe, this is definitely worth checking out."
"Darkest Dungeon creator Red Hook Studios is happy to announce that a new FREE game mode for "Darkest Dungeon II", Kingdoms, along with its first of three adventure modules Hunger of the Beast Clan, and their next paid DLC, Inhuman Bondage ($9.99 / 9,75 € / £8.50), released today for PC and Mac, with consoles set to follow soon." - Red Hook Studios.

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As stressful as the game is, i do love it