Choose your party and your quest carefully Ever hear the saying “it’s better to be safe than sorry”? Well forget that this is a difficult game, and it’s always better to be poor than dead.Ģ.

You can go through ten dungeons without ever being poisoned, but I can guarantee that the first time you don’t buy any antidote is the time that your party suddenly becomes incredibly susceptible to spider venom. You’re brave, you’re reckless, and you don’t want to spend any of your hard earned gold on shovels: what could possibly be the harm? The first thing to realise about Darkest Dungeon is that, although it’s completely randomly generated, luck will always be against you. You know, sometimes this is a roguelike, after all. Keeping this in mind, here are my five tips to surviving Darkest Dungeon. As a roguelike, Darkest Dungeon is soul-crushingly punishing to even veteran players, exposing them to both the stress of Lovecraftian horrors, and the horror of being torn apart by angry mushroom people. Articles // 25th Jan 2016 - 8 years ago // By Ben Robson 5 Tricks to Surviving Darkest Dungeon (Sometimes)ĭarkest Dungeon is set for its full release from Early Access on the 19th of January, and having followed the game through its development since July of last year, you can bet I’m pretty excited about finally being able to enter the final dungeon.

Darkest dungeon managing stress