Darkest Dungeon

Games
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RPS has an article today about an upcoming game, called the Darkest Dungeon. There is a REALLY cool video , detailing a group of warriors descending into the dungeon, and their realization that perhaps its not all fun and games. I won’t reveal the video, because I actually find it very cool, but the gameplay idea is very interesting as well:

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.[INDENT] Each 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. Furthermore, how you perfom in the dungeon will have lasting and impactful consequences on their continued development. 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.

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I like that - I’ve always liked the idea of how it would actually be, crawling about in dungeons. I’ve been in a few deep caverns and caves in my life, and some of them were quite scary, even with a guide, so I cant imagine what it would be like with just a torch, and knowing that monsters actually lurked around every corner. I’d love for a game to actually simulate that!

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They use the word “impactful,” so minus five points.

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Holy crap that video is everything I want the Pathfinder dungeons I run to be. I’ll probably buy this as inspiration if naught else.

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Could be awesome! I hope it doesn’t channel too much Don’t Starve as I found that game tedious in the end.

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And it modifies “consequences”. minus 25 points.

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The game sounds awesome but Fall 2014… :(

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Indeed, too far off. The Idea and trailer look great! Let us hope they can deliver.

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I almost posted about this but I thought it was too far off. But I’m glad you did, Razgon, just so I can say AWESOME. I love the elevator pitch on this thing.

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This game looks fantastic. I’ve always been a fan of a good challenging dungeon game

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I almost posted about this but I thought it was too far off. But I’m glad you did, Razgon, just so I can say AWESOME. I love the elevator pitch on this thing.

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This does look very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

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Darkest Dungeon has just entered Kickstarterand funded in about a day. The new trailer (Under Story) is damn cool as well! The whole game oozes atmosphere.

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Funny how the narrator managed to speak after the (assumed) suicide… Cool premise for a game though.

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It was the letter he wrote. And before you ask, perhaps a servant or estate helper posted it afterwards. :-)

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I really like the style and it seems the gameplay would be interesting. Something is holding me back though, and it is the sense of replay-ability with the game. I have not had a chance to look through all the pitch materials and I do see one of the stretch goals reached is “20% more game”. Somehow though I am getting the sense that the game is limited in play time.

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Really like how that looks. I hope they can bring the game to fruition.

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Yeah, this seems replete with possibilities. The combat looks maddening though with all the “misses” so I hope there is some tuning done on that front. It’s likely part of the RPG/old-school pen and paper design I realize, but there is a reason many RPG’s did away with frequent misses.

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Update 25 mentioned a bit about early access:

You can expect Early Access to hit Steam around mid-Feb of 2015.

I think they are planning for a summer 2015 release. Overall they are only running 6 months behind, which going by most kickstarter projects, seems damn good.

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They definitely seem to be keeping busy as it took about five months for me to finish my podcast interview with them for my site.

Part 1 Is more about how the studio was formed, the kickstarter and some art style related questions. While Part 2 is more about the gameplay and progression. They were some great guys and I really can’t wait to play this as it was my first kickstarter pledge this year.