Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
A brutal, atmospheric gothic turn-based dungeon crawler with superb art and narration, but heavy RNG and grind. Skip it if losing hours of progress to bad dice rolls will frustrate you.
Great for
Players who enjoy punishing, risk-managing turn-based strategy with dark Lovecraftian atmosphere
Main risk
Heavy RNG and repetitive grinding can wipe out hours of progress and feel unfair
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“The atmospheric dread hits immediately, powered by Wayne June's narration which sets a dark tone and triggers goosebumps with every step into the dungeons.”
Steam review · 108.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“scraping your party through a boss fight on single-digit health yields unmatched satisfaction”
Steam review · 108.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Formations (Ranks 1–4) determine which skills you can use and target.”
Steam review · 16.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“There's so many steam workshop mods and nexus mods that support Darkest Dungeon that you can fully customize everything to your liking.”
Steam review · 125.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“I feel like this game is the epitome of "just one more run" and before you know it, it's 4 AM”
Steam review · 62.1 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“HP isn't your only resource. At 100 Stress, heroes break—gaining game-ruining debuffs (Paranoid, Abusive) or clutch buffs (Virtue).”
Steam review · 16.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“attacks miss despite having high accuracy, enemies land multiple critical hits in a row, and suddenly a run you've invested 20 hours into is over.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“If you enjoy farming low level dungeon x5-10 times before you're able to run a single high level dungeon, then this game is for you.”
Steam review · 120.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Spending 20 expeditions to get a healer up to par so you can have a functional team for the harder missions, only for her to get one shot”
Steam review · 100.7 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“unit 1 becomes stressed > this triggers them becoming "irrational" > this spikes the stress of other 3 units”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“ultra-long animations, about 5 seconds for each of your four characters and four enemies”
Steam review · translated · 47.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews
“you can't disable that DLC and I feel this is a weird departure from letting people enable and disable DLCs at will”
Steam review · 76 h played ↗
From the Steam store page
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Recommended
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+ Outstanding story and characters
− Unfair bosses and unbreakable coins
analyzed 10 h ago
+ Best-in-genre tactical gameplay
− Unfair-feeling RNG and missed high-odds shots
analyzed 8 h ago
+ Huge replayability
− Bugs and crashes
analyzed 1 d ago
+ Pals as workers and base building
− Late-game grind
analyzed 1 d ago
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