/r/darkestdungeon
Welcome to /r/darkestdungeon, the community dedicated to all things related to the critically acclaimed video game, Darkest Dungeon!
Welcome to the official subreddit for the games Darkest Dungeon 1 & 2!
Darkest Dungeon is available for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, PSVita, iPad and Nintendo Switch!
The first DLC, The Crimson Court, released on 19th of June 2017. The second DLC, The Shieldbreaker, released on 26th of October 2017. The third DLC, Color of Madness, released on 19th of June 2018. The fourth DLC, The Butcher's Circus, adding PvP released on the 28th of May, 2020.
Darkest Dungeon 2 is available on PC.
Click here to read comments made by Red Hook developers!
Game Overview
"Darkest Dungeon is a hard-core RPG about the stresses of dungeon crawling. You must manage a team of flawed heroes through the horrors of being 500 feet underground while fighting unimaginable foes, famine, disease, and the encroaching dark. You will have to tend to characters’ spirits as much as you do their Hit Points. But in these grim situations arises the opportunity for true skill and heroism!"
Posting Rules
Be mindful of reddiquette and the rules of Reddit. You can see extended explanations of the below rules here.
Posts must be related to DD in some way. Tangential relatedness, or passing something as DD content just because of title or simple caption is not enough. Addtionally please refrain from submitting low effort and commonly reposted content such as: conflicting quirks, Dismas holding his head, pictures of lots of loot, blurry screenshots, Full list of examples can be find here
Do not submit Youtube gameplay videos or Twitch streams as a link post. They must be part of a text post with additional information as to why we should watch that video or stream. Videos of other content (speedpaint, cosplay, trailer, etc.) are fine to be posted as links.
Tag memes and spoilers appropriately, using the flair/spoiler buttons. Spoiler policy here.
Do not post NSFW content. Mild gore is allowed.
Give credit when posting an artist's work, or post the source you got it from.
No rudeness, trolling, or inciting reactions, and no hate speech. Be polite to other users.
Do not beg or ask for game keys, nor share links to pirate the game. You will be banned without warning.
You can join the DD Discord here.
Browse our Wiki here r/darkestdungeon/wiki/index
Modding
You can find mods for the game on Steam Workshop and NexusMods.com.
Our wiki includes modding resources.
Patch Notes
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Even if you press the Press Y to Equip single Y button I can't get 1 item divided, is it a bug? Darkest Dungeon2 Nintendo Switch 1.0.4 version.
If you didn't already know, dodge tanking is extremely strong against the Focused Fault. Every time you avoid one of its attacks, whether because you dodged or it missed, you lose a Seen token. Bringing heroes that focus on generating Blind and Dodge makes the fight ezpz. So, I made a little cheat sheet of heroes that can do that.
Heroes that can Blind:
Heroes that can generate dodge:
If you build your team out of these building blocks, Act 3 boss will be a cakewalk.
I am at 83th week in my first playthrough of dd and I have a question. Will there be a moment, when there won't be lvl 0 and 3 missions so i won't be able to train the new recruits? Because I'm getting 1 or 2 consistently and all others are lvl 5. I also killed like all the bosses with the exception of prophet and the flesh
I went into the oblivion's ingress with a dead healer, and 2 of the other heroes died before even the weaker cultists went down. My Flagellant soloed the whole encounter. I know he has the issue with death herself hunting him but isn't he a little TOO strong if he can solo the brunt of a cultist encounter?
I’ve saved up a bit of money and I want to buy something related to the games but can’t really find anything. And no I’m no getting a body pillow with the flagellate on it.
Trying to 100% achievments. Not much left. Gran Slam long past gone. Going for the clash.
First attempt. Everyone at 0. Had one relationship at 90% bad. didn't trigger.
Second attempt. Last kill at last fight before inn gives a pip up.
Third attempt. Last inn is the roaring hearth, and occultist gets pacifier.
I think i'm loosing it. WHY do they all want to be nice NOW that i'm trying to have them piss each other off.
AAAAAAAAAARGH
THE BOSS OBSESSION IS DEAD!! First try and surprisingly easy. BEST RUN EVER! Now I can peacefully close that game and enjoy the day. 3 hours gameplay... I can't believe it
Picked up this game in the autumn sale and love it, the art style is great and I enjoy the hamlet management system. Major problem im facing right now is that I feel super softlocked by the game. I can't finish any quests as my guys are usually 1 hp after like 2 fights and their stress bar climbs incredibly high. Tried fixing this by killing the guys at the back that usually give stress but the enemies up front just decimate my health bar in 1 turn. Right now i'm just stuck in a cycle of buying provisions, doing 2 or 3 rooms to make my money back, having to abandon quest so as to not die. I cant afford any stress relievers or anything. Send help
Save me? I could probably use some advice on the characthers mostly since I don’t know most of them too well
You know, after a good while of fearing him and his pyre, I’ve come to realize something. If you guard those he’s about to put on the pyre, he simply puts the MaA/other guarding classes on it, regardless of if they have the curse or not. I think that really highlights the idea that the man is an animal - rabid, destructive, and incapable of nuanced understanding. He. must. be. put. down.
This is my first attempt at a decent cove party -- !
I just got through an Exemplar fight that, for all intents and purposes, went pretty well, but there was a moment early in the fight that has me scratching my head. My Leper has a combo token on him, but the altar has 2 worship tokens. The wiki says that Exemplar should use Pillar Of Sacrifice first, which would give me time to clear the combo token before Exemplar's second action, right?
Apparently not. I don't know if it was a bug in the AI, or what, but it proceeded to use The Fall as its first action that turn, though it luckily missed.
But then why did it use The Fall early?
The sleeping mascot
This has happened more than once to me, anyone know why this happens?
This has happened more than once to me, anyone know why this happens?
Am I the only one that ALMOST feels bad for the enemies when I use this skill? Not only does it almost guarantee two procs of 'pain', but then a punish gives him the third and then boom, healthy, well as healthy as a skeletized man can be (which is pretty damn healthy.)
I've found that bringing a strong marking team, along with a viable way to take out high prot / annoying backliners is to pair Hellion with Arbalest. Feel free to take a stab at any part, most of this is what I've scrapped together from reddit posts, and personal experience.
.. And yes, before you say anything, I have mods. I took them off for the sake of all of your eyes.
( Not game changing ones, just cosmetic. )
Hope you all enjoy! Comes in different colours if you'd prefer 😉
I need more space in my roster, and Dismas has horrible negative quirks and no meaningful positives. I would discard him instantly if he wasn't the starting character. Is there any reason to keep him?
Edit: I kept him. I do like the idea of keeping the two starter guys alive as long as possible. It just clashes with how expendable the characters otherwise are in this game.
Btw the game has been so damn fun these last few days. I originally got it few years back for free on epic, and played for couple dosen hours. However, I never got that far and also epic games suck a*s if you ask me, so I bought it on steam with all dlc but CoM. (Gonna buy it at some point too, it just wasn't in the bundle I got) .The combat is so addictive, and my god are some of the characters cool (Flagellant and leper especially).
Played two runs yesterday. In the first one I had 4 pairs ready for good relationsships (1 of them in the "very good" zone). (Left the inn for the mountain and not one of them triggered.
Next run after the first area i got 3 pairs just on the theshold to bad relationsships. And of course all 3 of them triggered.
This game sometimes... but I guess thats why I love it😅
Please do the second one lol