Darkest Dungeon®

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?

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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.

Reclaim Your Ancestor's Estate

Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.

Core Features

The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks!
Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style
Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
Narration system to celebrate your successes...and failures
16 (and counting!) playable hero classes, including Plague Doctor, Hellion, and even the Leper!
Camp to heal wounds or deliver inspiring speeches.
Rest your weary, shell-shocked characters in town at the Tavern or the Abbey to keep their stress in check.
Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including character permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay

Can you stem the tide of eldritch horrors erupting across your family’s ancestral estate?

Descend at your peril!

Awards and Honors

PG Gamer: Best RPG of 2016
Game Informer - Best RPGs of 2016: 3 Awards
IGN - Best of 2016: 2 Nominations
IGF 2016 - 3 Nominations
Rock Paper Shotgun - 50 Best RPGs of All Time
PAX 10 - 2015
Game Debate Best Indie Game 2016
SXSW Gamer's Choice Nominee 2015
MMORPG - Best Indie RPG (Pax East 2014), Best RPG Nomination PAX Prime 2014
Indie Megabooth Selection - PAX East 2014, PAX Prime 2015

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Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Darkest Dungeon Soundtracks Available Now on Vinyl

Red Hook Studios and Darkest Dungeon composer Stuart Chatwood have partnered with Lost in Cult to bring you the Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II soundtracks on vinyl! The…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam patch notes
Darkest Dungeon - Coming_in_hot - Mod Manager Update

Hello! We've deployed an updated version of the Mod Manager to the coming_in_hot branch for Darkest Dungeon. NOTES: 🔸 New game can be created directly from Mod Manager! 🔸…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Week 17 - Mod Showcase

Welcome to Week 17 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features a new hero class for Darkest Dungeon and an outfit swap for Darkest Dungeon II. If you’re a…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Bone Courtier Plushie and Pin Set Available Now!

New Darkest Dungeon Plushie Available Now! “With no living sinew to actuate them, will these walking bones finally fail?” Our Bone Courtier Plush has arrived just in time for…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam patch notes
Darkest Dungeon - The Fire's Edge - Hotfix

Hello everyone! We've just pushed a little hotfix today to address one issue. Fixed an issue where the R3 / Right Stick Click was not working correctly for players using Linux.
Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Week 16 - Mod Showcase

Welcome to Week 16 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new heroes for both Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II. If you’re a mod maker, and would…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Darkest Dungeon: The Original Canon Graphic Novel, now live on BackerKit

Glory and honor to that ragged band whose triumph healed the world. Unfortunately, peace has never sat comfortably beside the Darkest Dungeon. Today, Vault Comics and Red Hook…
Darkest Dungeon®Steam announcement
Week 15 - Mod Showcase

Welcome to Week 15 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new heroes for both Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II. If you’re a mod maker, and would…