RPS will principally be slumbering this Monday, Might eighth, because the UK has a nationwide vacation for some cause or different. Which means I will not be round to inform you a couple of stagecoach’s journey throughout a decaying land. I am referring, in fact, to Darkest Dungeon 2 hitting 1.0 and arriving on Steam for the primary time.
I am telling you now, as an alternative. Helpfully there’s already a launch trailer and Purple Hook have shared some particulars of their post-release plans.
Darkest Dungeon 2 has been in early entry over on Epic since 2021, and it principally appears to comply with within the grim footsteps of the unique. You place collectively a celebration of adventurers, you are taking them into emotionally scarring turn-based battles, and also you try to assuage and improve them sufficient to outlive ever extra harrowing foes. That bit concerning the stagecoach and decaying land was straight from its Steam page.
In a news post about its launch, Purple Hook say that 1.0 will characteristic “12 playable characters with an entire narrative that includes 5 acts.” A type of characters, and the 2 closing acts, are new to this last launch.
Besides it is probably not a last launch. The identical information publish explains that, similar to the primary sport, Darkest Dungeon 2 can be supported post-release with “various free updates… that vary from content material to quality-of-life.” Present plans embody new monsters, new skins, mod assist, and stability tuning.
Brendy checked out Darkest Dungeon 2’s early entry launch at launch and deemed it a tough begin. I’ve heard little about it since and I am unable to inform if that is a superb factor or not. The unique Darkest Dungeon was met with plenty of participant backlash because it made substantial design modifications throughout its personal early entry, and so maybe the sequel having a quieter time within the Epic Video games Retailer cul-de-sac is for the perfect.
We’ll discover out Might eighth.