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Each character class also has a number of skills to choose from, so while personally I found some classes to be more useful than others, there’s plenty of room for customisation and for tailoring your squad to suit your own play-style.

You do this by recruiting and training adventurers who you form into parties and then send into dungeons to wipe out the creatures within.Įach adventurer – who level-up with successful quests and whose gear can then be upgraded accordingly – fits into one of numerous classes such as crusader, occultist, grave robber, bounty hunter, highwayman, and more unexpected classes such as jester and leper. (I named my estate the “Carter” estate in honour of Lovecraft’s character Randolph Carter). Including both real-time movement and turn-based battles, Darkest Dungeon is a dungeon-crawler in which your goal is to exterminate the malevolent forces which have come to occupy the sprawling estate you have just inherited, this evil having been unleashed due to the actions of your ancestor.

Now a fully-fledged cosmic horror convert, I eagerly picked up Darkest Dungeon, a game which wears its Lovecraft influence with pride, the developer and publisher, Red Hook Studios, even – I assume, anyway – taking its name from Lovecraft’s short story The Horror at Red Hook. Lovecraft’s work, the cosmic horror element of Bloodborne – an element brilliantly ommitted from any of the game’s pre-release promotional material – inspiring me to read the entirety of Lovecraft’s fiction writing in the space of a couple of months.

Although I’ve been a keen reader all of my life, it was only after playing From Software’s incredible action-RPG that I actually read any of author H.

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