This is stress, the idea that people subjected to the kind of horrors that dungeon explorers go through might crack under the pressure.

Darkest Dungeon is a turn-based battler with an overarching structure, and one idea that lifts it way above the ordinary. Sacrificed on the altar of curiosity, for a cosmic kick in the teeth. Everyone dead, quest over, all loot and treasure gone, all investment in those heroes lost. The last survivor looked at the corpse, clutched their own chest and fell. Back in the waking world, brains spinning at what had just occurred, one had a heart attack and died on the spot. If you can lead them to victory, you’ll have earned it.I hammered the retreat button as another hero fell, and the final two escaped alive. We want you to manage a party of human heroes faced with almost insurmountable odds. We want Hudson’s panic from 'Aliens', MacReady’s booze-battling from 'The Thing', James’s detached sadism from 'The Hurt Locker'. In short, we want to create the kind of team interaction and tension that arises in the most desperate situations. On top of the Affliction system, which tracks each hero's stress levels and monitors their psychological status and relationships with one another, the game features perma-death and turn-based tactical combat. You are put smack-dab in the role of a squad leader or sports team manager, doing your best to keep the human factors from fracturing your team or destroying their effectiveness. Furthermore, how you perfom in the dungeon will have lasting and impactful consequences on their continued development. The concept behind Darkest Dungeon is to put the dungeon back in 'dungeon crawler.' The environment itself is an antagonist - a scary, haunted place where your chances of survival are slim, hordes of terrifying monsters notwithstanding.Įach and every adventurer you recruit will develop a unique combination of predispositions, proclivities, flaws and strengths - factors that must be carefully considered when forming a party and leading it through horrific environs. I'm already sold, on the concept at least. The game should be finished by Autumn 2014 but a crowd-funding campaign may well occur to assist with production. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

Darkest dungeon stress hack