Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral 2017 Edition

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About the Game Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Reclaim Your Ancestor's Estate Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond.

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Developer:
Red Hook Studios
Engine:
Proprietary Engine
Release date:
19 January 2016
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (678)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (56339)

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About the Game

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring.

Reclaim Your Ancestor's Estate

Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.

Core Features

  • The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks!
  • Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style
  • Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
  • Narration system to celebrate your successes...and failures
  • 16 (and counting!) playable hero classes, including Plague Doctor, Hellion, and even the Leper!
  • Camp to heal wounds or deliver inspiring speeches.
  • Rest your weary, shell-shocked characters in town at the Tavern or the Abbey to keep their stress in check.
  • Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including character permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay


Can you stem the tide of eldritch horrors erupting across your family’s ancestral estate?

Descend at your peril!

Awards and Honors


  • PG Gamer: Best RPG of 2016
  • Game Informer - Best RPGs of 2016: 3 Awards
  • IGN - Best of 2016: 2 Nominations
  • IGF 2016 - 3 Nominations
  • Rock Paper Shotgun - 50 Best RPGs of All Time
  • PAX 10 - 2015
  • Game Debate Best Indie Game 2016
  • SXSW Gamer's Choice Nominee 2015
  • MMORPG - Best Indie RPG (Pax East 2014), Best RPG Nomination PAX Prime 2014
  • Indie Megabooth Selection - PAX East 2014, PAX Prime 2015

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows XP
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
Open GL 3.2+ Compliant
Storage:
2 GB available space
Additional Notes:
1080p, 16:9 recommended

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7+
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Open GL 3.2+ Compliant
Storage:
2 GB available space
Additional Notes:
1080p, 16:9 recommended

User reviews

MosterdpotTV
Not recommended | 14 Jul 2026
111h played

I wanted to like this one so badly. The art and atmosphere is great. But the grindiness combined with the degree of randomness in such a punishing setting is simply too much for me. It just feels like an excercise in

Helpful: 3
apetersson
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
746h played

745 Hours.. If i was looking for some excuses, i'd say - it makes a lot of sense to just leave the game running overnight instead of quitting and reloading. But I am a grown man i don't need any excuses :)

Helpful: 0
Scottimus432
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
369h played

So, this game is a masterpiece. I just defeated it on Stygian mode for the first time. It really boils down decision making into so many layers of risk reward it becomes an addiction. From the party characters choices,

Helpful: 0
BananaGuy
Recommended | 13 Jul 2026
78.7h played

A lot of people believe this game to be impossible to complete. Indeed there is only a less than 5% completion rate if the global achievements screen is to be believed. I was one of those people until I watched a few

Helpful: 0
sashene
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
22.1h played

played for an hour, realized i had no clue how party synergy or skills worked, spent two hours reading guides, came back, and now i'm having a blast destroying enemies without my heroes dying. great game.

Helpful: 0
ZealotCuckQueen
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
25.5h played

An amazing game that really scratches that gritty dark fantasy RPG itch. Challenging but very rewarding with more experience, it encourages moving past the instant satisfaction mindset and shifts your thinking into long

Helpful: 0