Instead of meticulously building your base and cultivating various teams of broken warriors, you have a pretty steady cast of characters and work on upgrading them, your stagecoach, and what your little rolling crew already has. When you’re making a sequel, there’s always a choice: Do you do what you did in the first one but try and make it better? Or do you try and do something different? Darkest Dungeon 2 goes…ROAD TRIP, GOTH BITCHES! Which is an interesting choice, stylistically speaking.

MonsterVine was supplied with PC code for review You have the very last light of hope? Well, friend, I got no job and nothing but time. “RUIN HAS FOUND YOU AT LAST! THE EPHEMERAL EQUATION IS UNBALANCED! THE WORLD IS A WASTELAND OF FAILURES PAST!” Do you like gothic atmosphere? Words like BITUMINOUS when “dark” would’ve done? For me, I just got laid off.

But you also have to enjoy writing like this…and this is just from, like, the opening cutscene of Darkest Dungeon 2. Oh, sure, you have to like the kind of turn-based tactical action, the intricate party management, the idea that you are doing incredible harm to your people by even sending them into battle. Darkest Dungeon is for a certain kind of person.

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