Can't think of any other worthwhile game in this vein that'd be good though. But how many of these imitators are actually decent? I'll say Iratus is fairly interesting on the mechanical side (not amazing, but worth playing). Oh well.Īlso, "it spawned imitators"? Sure. Just extremely sad/disappointed, because I saw a lot of potential there.
Honestly, I am not even mad about what they did with Darkest Dungeon 2.
We will see how Darkest Dungeon 2 fares, but I don't have any hope it will get anywhere near the success its predecessor was, because the concept has lost its novelty already and I am expecting people to be less forgiving the game having weak points in a sequel. And instead of fleshing out its weaker aspects in the sequel, like KateMicucci said, the developers decided ditch all that when making a sequel. What Darkest Dungeon really rides on in the end is the atmosphere (the Narrator and the visuals, essentially). Which is actually pretty poorly fleshed out in the game. You know what Red Hook "pioneered"? Sanity as the core game mechanic.