Darkest Dungeon®

The game is not good, like at all: 4/10 TL;DR: Dont waste your time, play something better. Reddit touted how amazing it is, and it looked quite interesting visually and from the descriptions so i tried it... a lot... Its just not a good game. There are way too many character values that dont respond or work like they seem and there is no explanation how they actually work, even searching online brings you nowhere, because the functionality of most stats changed vastly over the years and patches. Characters die constantly, which feels awful, because death being a threat is one thing, but you can literally die in a single enemy turn with no way to prepare, load or escape. Most of the story is just repeating miscellaneous quests with no interesting writing or anything. The combat itself is convoluted and complex for the sake of complexity with no sense, there would be so many ways to streamline the stats and functionality to make it make more sense and just be better, but they chose not to. The actual dungeon runs are slow, with most "encounters" i.e. objects you find not doing anything but being traps in disguise, so just ignore them. Traps are also often unavoidable even if detected and prepared for. The random dungeon map sounds fun at first, but once you see that you can run into a deadend and then slowly with a lot of loading screens have to go back THROUGH ALL ROOMS AND WALKWAYS YOU ALREADY WENT THROUGH WITH NOTHING NEW HAPPENING you see how much time is wasted literally doing nothing but walking. Seriously, the game is a severe disappointment and utter waste of time. I 100% the game because i wanted to give it a fair chance, but even with various mods and following dedicated builds to reduce strain it still took me way too long to get through this slog of a game...

Devs changed the file structure at some point, so I don't know how to mod it anymore and can't be bothered with it.

I have to say, I'm totally addicted to this game. Even though I get frustrated with my character dying so often, after all the effort I put into developing them, when I think about how to act like the villain in the game not caring about my character's fate, or just seeing them as mere pawns it's actually a great way to protect my own sanity . . . 100%. Highly recommend it.

A strategy or turn based combat game needs perfect information to keep me interested. I don't enjoy random turn orders. Random hits chances and damage are fine, great even. But I know what those chances are before I make a decision. If I don't know what character is going next then I just feel no sense of engagement. Also the story was kind of lacking and the combat wasn't varied enough to be interesting.

做你的破肉鸽给工作室都做卖了想起你一代爹了，觉得自己喜欢游戏制作组不当人来看看红狗，饼都挂脖子上了不会自己吃。你现在彻底别管一代了就是对一代最大的贡献

Extremely RNG-dependent and several mechanics end up being the complete and undisputed meta(stuns and high speed), leading to specific combinations and playstyles being objectively the best while others are heavily punished and result in tedious gameplay with large setbacks

This game taught me a valuable lesson in which not everyone comes out alive, heroes can and will die whether you tried your damned-est or not. But that's the beauty in it, it forces you to think, to make decisions you may or may not want to make. 10/10 would recommend