It's boring and it stems from the fact that, if your dungeon crawl requires a lot of endurance, then saving your mana (or whatever secondary resource your skills expend) for healing spells is going to be the most efficient thing to do. I've talked at length before about the common problem in turn-based combat of just repeating the basic 'attack' action ad infinitum until the combat is over. So in that basic description, we can definitely see some cool, intriguing ideas, but what first jumped out at me when playing it was how amazingly fulfilling the combat is. As you complete missions, adventurers will level up and gain quirks (both good and bad) and you'll gain items that can be used to improve your base camp, giving your adventurers better equipment, skills and stress relief. In the dungeons, you'll not only have to keep an eye on your party's health, but also their stress and the light level of your torch. It is indeed a turn-based RPG where you perform missions exploring randomly generated dungeons with a party of four adventurers selected from a larger stable of recruits. Darkest Dungeon is a video game currently in early access on Steam. It fills me with a dark, hungering glee as I watch my party descend further into madness, wondering how far I can push them before their souls break.

Though, judging by my latest series of posts (and - let's be honest - the vast majority of posts on this website), that fact was already readily apparent.Īnd it is with that fact in mind that I will just say right up front that Darkest Dungeon hits all the right notes.

I'm a big sucker for old-school turn-based RPGs.

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