Winning fights depends heavily on recognizing your enemies' strengths and managing your heroes' abilities well.

Horrible things lurk in the dark, and if you don't bring enough torches with you, you're in big trouble: Get ready to fight. But the most important thing to keep in mind is that darkness is deadly.

You may be tasked with exploring 90 percent of a given area thanks to a helpful mini-map that sometimes defines the locations of treasures and enemies. Exploration and combat are the dual cornerstones of Darkest Dungeon. If not, you're in for some serious frustration.

Beware, ye who enter here: You must be able to accept failure and come back with a 'We'll get 'em next time' attitude. It seduces you with its forceful, energetic gameplay and then kicks you to the curb with its unforgiving balance. This difficult adventure is simultaneously one of the most fun and most maddening strategy role-playing games in recent memory. The Switch 'Ancestral Edition' includes both DLC packs for players to get into from the start. New environments have been added to the main dungeons, and a stagecoach event provides newer recruits for players. The game has also been expanded for the console and Vita versions with additional trinkets that are initially provided at the start of each game, giving a head start on dungeon exploration, as well as rare items. Success depends on creating a diverse party of mercs (Jesters, Plague Doctors, Bounty Hunters, Clerics, and so on) who can help one another survive not only challenging physical trials, but also the mental strain of the horrors they meet. Gameplay alternates between recovery and preparation within a dark, decrepit village and fighting your way through armies of fanatics, rabid dogs, monsters, and giant, poison-spewing bugs. Gathering together as many mercenaries as he can, he resolves to travel every wooded path and explore every subterranean hallway to drive the evil out. In DARKEST DUNGEON, the scion of a noble family returns home to find both his family's lands and castle overrun by evil.

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