Darkest Dungeons is basically Lovecraft moved back to the late medieval/early renaissance period. It's an amazing game and totally nails what you are describing.
Hmm, it's 90% off on GOG. Should I get it? What's the gameplay like?
It's a side-scrolling dungeon-crawl rouge-like RPGs. That doesn't really do it justice, though. You play a guy who inherits his corrupted ancestor's manor and finds that it is over-run with eldritch abominations. You have to hire a team of adventurers and train them up to confront all the monsters underneath the manor. The twist is that your adventurers actually suffer from stress and madness if they are in the dungeons too long. Darkness causes them to stress. Facing the undead stresses them out. So you have to balance stress management and resources and your heroes to survive.
Edit: I forgot to say, yes you should buy it. It is, without a doubt, one of the best indie games of the last few years. The art style is amazing and seriously reminds me of Mike Mignola's work on Hellboy.
Thanks. I just might check it out. Just started Etrian Odyssey, my first dungeon crawler a month ago and I'm eager to see what else the genre could give. Is the game finished though? Last I heard about it, in 2015ish it was still unfinished and being patched like crazy.
Yeah it's finished. It actually has a full expansion, a DLC character, and another expansion on the way. The current expansion introduces vampirism and I think the next one is introducing some sort of cosmic, extraterrestrial threat IIRC.
Fuck, I waited too long and it's back at full price lmao. Oh well, I still have a massive backlog so it's not too bad. But this'll definitely be at the top of my to play list later and if gets back on sale in the near future I'll skip a bunch of my backlog to play it. ---
Darkest Dungeons is basically Lovecraft moved back to the late medieval/early renaissance period. It's an amazing game and totally nails what you are describing.
Hmm, it's 90% off on GOG. Should I get it? What's the gameplay like?
It's a side-scrolling dungeon-crawl rouge-like RPGs. That doesn't really do it justice, though. You play a guy who inherits his corrupted ancestor's manor and finds that it is over-run with eldritch abominations. You have to hire a team of adventurers and train them up to confront all the monsters underneath the manor. The twist is that your adventurers actually suffer from stress and madness if they are in the dungeons too long. Darkness causes them to stress. Facing the undead stresses them out. So you have to balance stress management and resources and your heroes to survive.
Edit: I forgot to say, yes you should buy it. It is, without a doubt, one of the best indie games of the last few years. The art style is amazing and seriously reminds me of Mike Mignola's work on Hellboy.
Thanks. I just might check it out. Just started Etrian Odyssey, my first dungeon crawler a month ago and I'm eager to see what else the genre could give. Is the game finished though? Last I heard about it, in 2015ish it was still unfinished and being patched like crazy.
Yeah it's finished. It actually has a full expansion, a DLC character, and another expansion on the way. The current expansion introduces vampirism and I think the next one is introducing some sort of cosmic, extraterrestrial threat IIRC.
Fuck, I waited too long and it's back at full price lmao. Oh well, I still have a massive backlog so it's not too bad. But this'll definitely be at the top of my to play list later and if gets back on sale in the near future I'll skip a bunch of my backlog to play it.
You definitely should. It's been one of the best indie games of the last few years. I can't recommend it enough.