When you do that, you will discover the most crucial gameplay mechanic - the affliction system. To do this, you need to recruit adventurers and send parties of four into various dungeons. Your character has inherited the estate and your goal is to cleanse it of all lurking evil monsters. At the beginning of the game, the narrator - whose voice acting is sublime - introduces the player to this story and reveals that the owner of the estate has committed suicide. He did this by digging up dungeons under his estate that opened up portals to the monsters' realm. Darkest Dungeon - a roguelike game - accomplishes this by making deaths a part of the game, and ensuring that the risk is worth the reward.ĭarkest Dungeon is the story of a man who owned a large estate and unleashed several monsters upon the world. That makes the game unforgiving and infinitely more stressful, but it also gives the game a unique identity.

In Darkest Dungeon, each character that dies is gone for good and you must live with every bad decision you make. Darkest Dungeon is not that kind of a game. The moment you die or make a bad decision, you can load up a recent save file and undo it all.

'Death is not permanent,' is the rule most role-playing games seem to follow.

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