Driven mad by his findings, he fled and before committing suicide, he composed a letter to you, begging you to right his wrongs, and “deliver our family… from the ravenous, clutching shadows… of the Darkest Dungeon.”Ĭleansing your newly-gifted estate is a far greater challenge than it seems, however you must hire and send mercenaries to purge the evil from the various tainted dungeons on your land, and use the various relics and materials they unearth to restore the surrounding town area to working order. A letter from a deceased relative informs you that, as a result of his luxurious lifestyle and various decadent indulgences, he learned of an ancient gateway buried beneath the family estate that held some “fabulous, unnamable power.” He spent the remainder of the family’s fortune on mercenaries and occult rituals in a frantic effort to unearth the artifact, and upon finally reaching it, discovered that the “power” it contained was, in fact, a portal to some terrifying, eldritch other dimension, in which dwelled all manner of hellish monsters. Your email: you submitted this review: December 2015Ĭreative Director/ Lead Designer: Chris Bourassa/Tyler Sigmanĭarkest Dungeon is a gothic roguelike role-playing game where you play as a descendent of a noble family, determined to cleanse your inherited estate of the evil that infests it.
Your school: DigiPen Institute of Technology Scroll past the poster to get to the actual essay! I got selected as a Platinum Winner of GDC’s Game Narrative Review contest! There are only 3 Platinum winners (and a lot of submissions), but I’m one of them! Below is the narrative review I did of Darkest Dungeon, and how it uses game mechanics in tandem with narrative to give the player an authentic, stressful experience of the macabre and the mysterious.
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