So in that basic description, we can definitely see some cool, intriguing ideas, but what first jumped out at me when playing it was how amazingly fulfilling the combat is. As you complete missions, adventurers will level up and gain quirks (both good and bad) and you'll gain items that can be used to improve your base camp, giving your adventurers better equipment, skills and stress relief. In the dungeons, you'll not only have to keep an eye on your party's health, but also their stress and the light level of your torch. It is indeed a turn-based RPG where you perform missions exploring randomly generated dungeons with a party of four adventurers selected from a larger stable of recruits. Darkest Dungeon is a video game currently in early access on Steam. It fills me with a dark, hungering glee as I watch my party descend further into madness, wondering how far I can push them before their souls break.

Though, judging by my latest series of posts (and - let's be honest - the vast majority of posts on this website), that fact was already readily apparent.Īnd it is with that fact in mind that I will just say right up front that Darkest Dungeon hits all the right notes. In this regards its a bit like as I mentioned an Xcom esque experience you get attached to some heroes/characters but they are never safe, and some of the games storytelling come from them getting traits troughout the game both bad or good.I'm a big sucker for old-school turn-based RPGs. You just get new heroes and continue playing. So yes it involves permadeath for heroes but its never game over. However if a hero dies that specific hero is gone for good its similar to Xcom. Normal mode doesnt have a time limit and thats how I play it mainly and its the best starting point. However you do have a management aspect to it with resources for each mission and building up your town, if you go broke or if you play higher difficulties and time runs out then its game over. On the normal difficulty setting where you have unlimited time to complete the game so theres no big stress and loss is normal in this game.

let say you finish the mission one hero is gone then yes he dies for good but its never game over even if you fail a mission its never game over. Yes and No, you level each hero you can have four in a party for any mission and if they die you can just buy new low leveled heroes.

Originally posted by J_C_Denton1:Maybe I should change the question to: What can I expect from this game?

Darkest dungeon like game but with gear