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Darkest Dungeon

Critic score10 critics
First release
Jan 19, 2016
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Adventure, Tactical, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Historical

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Also known as DD, DD1, Darkest.exe

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Storyline
The player inherits a gothic estate from an Ancestor who, in his pursuit of ambiguous ambitions, excavated the dungeons beneath his manor and unleashed terrible creatures upon the surrounding lands. Now the new owner must recruit adventurers and mount expeditions into the corrupted grounds to cleanse them. As the player explores deeper, they uncover their Ancestor's memoirs detailing the horrible deeds he committed in pursuit of knowledge and power. The path leads eventually to the Darkest Dungeon itself, the source of all the corruption, where something ancient and world-ending stirs beneath the surface.Read more

The player inherits a gothic estate from an Ancestor who, in his pursuit of ambiguous ambitions, excavated the dungeons beneath his manor and unleashed terrible creatures upon the surrounding lands. Now the new owner must recruit adventurers and mount expeditions into the corrupted grounds to cleanse them. As the player explores deeper, they uncover their Ancestor's memoirs detailing the horrible deeds he committed in pursuit of knowledge and power. The path leads eventually to the Darkest Dungeon itself, the source of all the corruption, where something ancient and world-ending stirs beneath the surface.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jan 19, 2016
Mac
Jan 19, 2016
Linux
Mar 27, 2016
All 11 release dates
Linux
Apr 26, 2016
PlayStation Vita
Sep 27, 2016
PlayStation 4
Sep 27, 2016
iOS
Aug 24, 2017
Nintendo Switch
Jan 18, 2018
Xbox One
Feb 28, 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Feb 03, 2015
Mac
Feb 03, 2015
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
48h
Main + Extras
83h
Completionist
98h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view
Keywords
medieval, turn-based, roguelike, procedural generation, permadeath
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At a Glance

Critic Score
83
Main Story (IGDB)
48h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
83h
Completionist (IGDB)
98h

Overview

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Steam users rate this Very Positive, 141,380 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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