The Blade's Will Harrison: Slashing claws, putrid bites, and swinging swords are common dangers in dungeon-crawling role-playing games. While these are a detriment to a character’s health in Darkest Dungeon, it turns out the most dangerous thing of all was my archer’s blood pressure levels.
"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.
Tis the season to be spooky, and so Rogueliker has gathered together a collection of roguelikes and roguelites that have fun being scary.
We've endured the purest terror in all of gaming in order to bring you this terrifying list of horror roguelikes.
I'm the critic who wrote this piece, and I just wanted to say that I am supremely happy any time I can spotlight indie games that have a real cross-over appeal to my more casual readers.
Darkest Dungeon has some issues and doesn't always play fair -- much like X-COM 2 -- but it's an experience worth paying for.