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The first thing you’ll notice loading in Darkest Dungeon is its narrator, solemnly intoning the occult-induced fall of an aristocratic family.

That specialness comes from three distinct components: its presentation and style, its role-playing depth, and the meta-game that incorporates both. Darkest Dungeon was released this week on PC, with a PS4/Vita release expected in the first half of this year.ĭarkest Dungeon is at its core a brutal tactical role-playing game - a sort of dark fantasy XCOM - but that’s an insufficient description of exactly what makes this game so special.

The latter category best suits Red Hook’s Darkest Dungeon, a game that sure as hell isn’t perfect, but a game that deserves all the attention it can possibly handle for all the things that it does right.