On this episode we delve into the Darkest Dungeon, the horror RPG that hates you.
I find whenever we do one of these roguelike games that’s light on authored content, you have to hope the description of how it plays leads to some sort of metaphor. Thankfully, Darkest Dungeon is one of those that does. The game hammers hard on the “grind up those cogs in the corporate machine” message. But beyond that base message and a few shades of specifics in the behavior that is rewarded by the system, there doesn’t seem much.
These types of games don’t last long with me as much as it does with others. I often get a full story out of a set of circumstances, but then the game keeps going and I’ve lost any thread of story I was building as it spirals out. Still, it’s a good update to the Lovecraft vibe to contemporary concerns.
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“The old road will take you to hell. But, in that gaping abyss, we will find our redemption.”