Let's Play Darkest Dungeon Gameplay - Part 14 - Expendable
4Darkest Dungeon is a turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler game produced by indie development team Red Hook Studios. The game follows the story of an estate manned by a rich older man, who becomes bored with a lavish life of luxury, and starts to investigate myths surrounding the manor. He spends the last remaining vestiges of the family wealth on workmen, who slave endlessly and finally uncover a portal, a door to another world. Horrors are uncovered and the man is the only one who escapes alive, and he writes to the Player, his relative. He entreats the player to come to the mansion to investigate the horrors and "reclaim your birthright," before ending his own life by gunshot.
Darkest Dungeon saw an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign and has received early praise from Let's Players and the media. The game features a unique, hand-drawn "gothic crowquill" art style, as well as some fairly unique mechanics. First and foremost among these would be the Stress system in the game, in which Heroes are treated more as humans than supernatural warriors, and the effects of fighting many warriors and beasts take a toll on the adventurers. Not only does the game feature permadeath and thus a very unforgiving penalty for mistakes, but characters can develop phobias and afflictions along the way as a result of stress. Conversely, heroes can also react positively to the affects of stress, rallying in the throes of battle. Their proclivities and aversions are procedurally generated, and the events in each battle are subject to random number generation (RNG) as well, making each trawl through the dungeon unique and interesting.
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Steam describes the premise of the game as follows:
"Darkest Dungeon on Steam"
http://store.steampowered.com/app/262060/
"Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.
Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.
- The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks!
- Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style
- Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
- Ten (and counting!) playable hero classes, including Plague Doctor, Hellion, and even the Leper!
- Camp to heal wounds or deliver inspiring speeches.
- Rest your weary, shell-shocked characters in town at the Tavern or the Abbey to keep their stress in check.
- Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including meaningful permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay
Can you stem the tide of eldritch horrors erupting across your family’s ancestral estate?
Descend at your peril!"
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Developer Red Hook Studios describes the combat as follows:
"About Darkest Dungeon"
http://www.darkestdungeon.com/about-the-game/
"Tactical, strategic, and deceptively deep, combat in Darkest Dungeon combines nostalgia with the elegance of modern design. It will challenge you in fresh new ways. Party order is crucial for setting up attacks, but it can also expose your heroes to threats. At all times, you must juggle the need to do damage with the importance of protecting the health and minds of your party members. Train, upgrade, and adjust your loadout to find the right combination of skills, honing your party into a four-person monster-wrecking Special Forces team.
- Invest in unique character skills, manage your loadout, and customize your party to your play style.
- Learn and master tactical positioning and skill combos.
- Battle a huge variety of enemies with challenging attacks and innovative mechanics.
- Use your party as a single fighting unit - set up and unleash combos using multiple characters to devasting effect!
- Face down intimidating bosses.
- Get obliterated by intimidating bosses!"
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