Darkest Dungeon II

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About the Game Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse.

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Developer:
Red Hook Studios
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
08 May 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Mixed (264)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (11797)

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About the Game

Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

Kingdoms

New Game Mode - Kingdoms - Now Playable!

“This squalid Kingdom, these corrupted lands, they are yours now, and you are bound to them.”
Kingdoms is an entirely new stand-alone strategic campaign game mode available to play now in Darkest Dungeon II.

Featuring a completely reimagined game structure, Kingdoms is a parallel game experience to the Confessions core game mode. You will be challenged to defend a crumbling realm against incursion from all new enemy factions.

Manage a persistent roster of heroes, gather resources, and pursue an epic questline in order to track down and defeat the source of evil before all is lost.

Progress in each game mode is tracked separately, and you can freely switch back and forth between active sessions of either.

Kingdoms is being released in thematic modules, each focusing on a different enemy threat. All three adventure modules - “Hunger of the Beast Clan”, “Secrets of the Coven”, and “Curse of the Court”- are available now!

Confessions

Gather your courage and ride out into the chaos of a world undone.

Four heroes and a stagecoach are all that stand between darkness and salvation.

Tried and True Turn-based Combat, Improved

The ground-breaking genre-defining combat from Darkest Dungeon returns, but everything from stats to rules has been refined and improved. The all new Token System helps make your decisions impactful while adding even more depth of play.

Unforgettable Heroes

Uncover and experience the tragic origin stories of each hero. Unlock their full potential via new skills, paths, items, and more.

Roguelike Runs, Each With Its Own Emerging Story

Each expedition lasts from 30 minutes to several hours. Even an untimely end will arm you with resources that can be spent to improve your next journey.

The Altar of Hope

Engage with a massive system of upgrades and boons that opens up new strategies for each expedition. Choose what’s important to you as you formulate your assaults on the Mountain.

The Affinity System

As travels progress, heroes bond with each other or grate on each others’ nerves, leading to desperately needed combat synergies or journey-ending dysfunction. Manage their stress and interaction to keep the team together until the bitter end.

Nightmarish Environs

From the burning Sprawl to the diseased Foetor, the long road to the Mountain will challenge your strategies and your endurance.

Explore five distinct regions, each with their own unique creatures and challenges.

A Moment’s Peace

Rest your weary, shell-shocked heroes at the Inn, where you can relieve their stress and try to improve their relationships with a variety of diversions and delights.

Face Your Failures

Journey to the Mountain and face down five terrifying manifestations of your weaknesses.

Signature Art Style, Evolved

Darkest Dungeon’s genre-defining art now improved with no expense spared on 3D visuals, animation, and visual FX.

A Feast for the Ears

The audio team from Darkest Dungeon is back. Revel in an all new narration performance by voice actor Wayne June, a brand new expansive score by Stuart Chatwood, and bone-crunching sound effects from Power Up Audio.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
AMD Athlon X4 | Intel Core i5 4460
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370
Storage:
6 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
i7 6700k
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Storage:
6 GB available space

User reviews

tstplsignr
Not recommended | 12 Jul 2026
14.5h played

I do not understand how the same team can make one of the best roguelites of all time and then follow it up with complete slop. ♥♥♥♥ combat, ♥♥♥♥ progression, ♥♥♥♥ events, even the art style has been downgraded. ♥♥♥♥

Helpful: 7
DismissedEnd
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
18.9h played

If DD1 never existed and this game came out, it would be critically acclaimed and then DD 1 would be panned if it was the sequel. It's a good game, people just don't know how to handle change.

Helpful: 9
Saaranir
Recommended | 13 Jul 2026
15.3h played

Surprised by this game review. It deserve better. They still managed to innovate from DD1 and took risk to make something great again. I guess a lot of people wanted the same thing but better

Helpful: 0
SpectQua!
Recommended | 17 Jul 2026
49.7h played

I love this game. I sadly however, made the mistake of getting too attached to my hero's as I named them all by my friends T_T For a tip to new players. DO NOT PUT THE NAMES AS YOUR FRIENDS. It will make you worry for

Helpful: 0
Janonas
Not recommended | 12 Jul 2026
2.5h played

Honestly a huge downgrade from the original for me. Its infused with too much of the modern roguelike slop that ive come to despise, such as over-focus on metaprogression and slay the spire type maps. Its also far less

Helpful: 5
LegendaryBilly
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
283h played

Even tho this game is quite different from the first, the developers took a risk in making a different game while keeping most of the roster and combat flow. Where the game shines through is in it's self reflecting

Helpful: 1