Structurally, I struggle with its imperfections, but Darkest Dungeon does everything else exactly right. It’s a Sisyphean game - you push your characters deeper and darker, and then they die and.you start again with a new bunch? The actual experience of losing a character is almost always full of tension, horror and tactical fuck-ups, but the aftermath can feel hollow. That’s probably because I don’t play multiplayer beat ‘em ups or hard-as-nails platformers, though I’m guessing Dark Souls, which is one of my favourites, has caused more than a few people to blink at their desktop wallpaper in astonishment, having instinctively dumped themselves there.ĭarkest Dungeon sometimes feels like it’s punishing me in ways that I understand but don’t appreciate. I don’t use that term very often, ‘ragequit’, because it doesn’t relate to my experience of games. The year's best dungeon crawler: grab your lanterns before continuing, it's Darkest Dungeon.Īdam: Sometimes Darkest Dungeon makes me want to scream and ragequit. Welcome to day ten of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, daily. We do find some wonderful things in the depths of the earth though. You can't write for a website about PC games without spending a fair bit of time down in the dungeons, crawling and looting.
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