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Darkest Dungeon®

Red Hook Studios · 2016-01-19

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 27, 2016 (Linux), Aug 24, 2017 (iOS), Sep 27, 2016 (PlayStation Vita), Jan 19, 2016 (Mac), Feb 28, 2018 (Xbox One)

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Darkest Dungeon® is an Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2016, priced at $3.74, with an estimated 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 162,519 reviews).

4,610
playing now
92%
positive of 163k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
128
twitch viewers (latest)
18.3
viewers/channel (concentration)
83/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (454 ratings)
1,778
Nexus mods (21M downloads)
4.67★
PlayStation Store rating (12,254 ratings)
84/100
opencritic · mighty · 93% recommend · from 80 critics
95h
to beat · rushed 56h · completionist 128h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.74
steam price (US)

4,610 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike role-playing video game developed and published by Red Hook Studios. The game was first released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in January 2016, which followed a year-long early access development period. Later that year, it was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Linux, with a port for iOS being released in 2017, and ports for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One being released by 2018.

Trailer

Darkest Dungeon® trailer thumbnail

Darkest Dungeon - Release Trailer [OFFICIAL]

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 4,610 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6,385 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~798/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1M–9.8M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 163,161 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$3.08-88%
Fanatical$3.12-88%
GreenManGaming$3.19-87%
Humble Store$3.74-85%
Steam$3.74-85%
WinGameStore$3.74-85%
GOG$3.75-85%
GamersGate$3.75-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-11-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 145 of 183 observed days · $1.09 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.7k2.7k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 585 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1,477 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 818 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 889 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 176 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2,575 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 627 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 277 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2,067 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2,156 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 520 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2,666 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2,368 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,974 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,509 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2,306 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,719 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2,000 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2,678 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 179 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,705 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,040 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,234 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 888 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,890 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,566 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,634 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,148 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2,595 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 230 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,122 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1,374 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,047 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,422 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1,523 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2,059 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,314 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1,910 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,306 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,250 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 830 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,240 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 850 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 760 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,016 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 893 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,029 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 890 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,299 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,110 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,113 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 794 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 990 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,352 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 994 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 581 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 746 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 728 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 493 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 877 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 717 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 688 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 727 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 715 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2,086 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 263 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,017 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 778 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 997 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 889 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 572 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 932 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 722 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,913 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 197 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 957 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,010 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 832 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 862 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 748 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 765 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 866 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 622 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 708 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 658 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,080 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 773 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1,012 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 617 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 653 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 511 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 654 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 928 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 33 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6.9k2.6k2026-09-15 11:00 — 5,061 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 4,295 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 3,795 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 5,410 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 5,014 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 3,568 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 3,644 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 4,436 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 3,177 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 4,600 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 4,807 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 2,577 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 3,519 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 5,291 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 3,647 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 4,536 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 6,086 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 3,219 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 3,948 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 6,291 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 4,430 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 3,739 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 4,610 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
7.0k0Dec 2014Aug 2026Dec 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2015 — avg 487 · peak 1,011Aug 2015 — avg 811 · peak 2,350Dec 2015 — avg 1,327 · peak 3,543Apr 2016 — avg 1,150 · peak 2,611Aug 2016 — avg 984 · peak 1,674Dec 2016 — avg 1,774 · peak 4,737Apr 2017 — avg 1,610 · peak 3,292Aug 2017 — avg 2,493 · peak 4,991Dec 2017 — avg 2,643 · peak 5,291Apr 2018 — avg 2,849 · peak 7,982Aug 2018 — avg 3,263 · peak 6,142Dec 2018 — avg 2,444 · peak 4,883Apr 2019 — avg 2,136 · peak 3,434Aug 2019 — avg 2,167 · peak 3,724Dec 2019 — avg 2,951 · peak 5,142Apr 2020 — avg 3,782 · peak 6,841Aug 2020 — avg 2,928 · peak 4,214Dec 2020 — avg 3,199 · peak 5,870Apr 2021 — avg 3,387 · peak 7,558Aug 2021 — avg 4,017 · peak 7,419Dec 2021 — avg 3,380 · peak 5,856Apr 2022 — avg 3,353 · peak 10,467Aug 2022 — avg 2,807 · peak 5,042Dec 2022 — avg 3,203 · peak 5,544Apr 2023 — avg 4,917 · peak 9,917Aug 2023 — avg 2,340 · peak 4,523Dec 2023 — avg 2,511 · peak 4,696Apr 2024 — avg 6,756 · peak 19,737Aug 2024 — avg 3,199 · peak 5,858Dec 2024 — avg 5,900 · peak 15,615Apr 2025 — avg 3,948 · peak 7,603Aug 2025 — avg 2,935 · peak 5,497Dec 2025 — avg 3,948 · peak 7,569Apr 2026 — avg 2,971 · peak 5,510Aug 2026 — avg 4,945 · peak 12,496
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
98982026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 98 new positive2026-09-21: 12 new negative2026-09-23: 14 new positive2026-09-23: 5 new negative2026-09-24: 17 new positive2026-09-24: 4 new negative2026-09-25: 18 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new negative2026-09-26: 28 new positive2026-09-27: 23 new positive2026-09-27: 3 new negative2026-09-29: 13 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 16 new positive2026-10-01: 16 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-02: 15 new positive2026-10-02: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 34 new positive2026-10-03: 5 new negative2026-10-04: 11 new positive2026-10-04: 5 new negative2026-10-05: 23 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new negative2026-10-06: 27 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 14 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-10: 23 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 22 new positive2026-10-11: 9 new negative2026-10-12: 35 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new negative2026-10-13: 33 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 6 new positive2026-10-14: 8 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$0.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $15.002016-01-28 — best price $19.992016-11-29 — best price $24.992017-04-14 — best price $24.992017-09-26 — best price $24.992018-02-08 — best price $9.992018-06-12 — best price $24.992018-11-12 — best price $24.992019-03-16 — best price $24.992019-09-03 — best price $7.492019-12-09 — best price $7.492020-02-29 — best price $24.992020-06-15 — best price $24.992020-11-25 — best price $6.242021-04-16 — best price $4.992021-09-02 — best price $24.992022-01-08 — best price $24.992022-06-28 — best price $24.992022-12-01 — best price $24.992023-04-13 — best price $24.992023-09-01 — best price $24.992023-12-02 — best price $24.992024-03-06 — best price $20.652024-04-12 — best price $19.152024-06-21 — best price $19.152024-09-04 — best price $22.392024-11-18 — best price $24.992025-02-04 — best price $19.152025-04-19 — best price $3.302025-06-25 — best price $22.492025-09-11 — best price $24.992025-11-21 — best price $2.982026-02-12 — best price $24.992026-04-14 — best price $3.752026-06-05 — best price $19.512026-07-31 — best price $19.512026-09-02 — best price $2.882026-09-27 — best price $2.882026-10-14 — best price $3.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6301432026-05-29 — 259 pageviews2026-06-02 — 175 pageviews2026-06-06 — 175 pageviews2026-06-10 — 143 pageviews2026-06-14 — 207 pageviews2026-06-18 — 165 pageviews2026-06-22 — 168 pageviews2026-06-26 — 210 pageviews2026-06-30 — 173 pageviews2026-07-04 — 183 pageviews2026-07-08 — 181 pageviews2026-07-12 — 192 pageviews2026-07-16 — 167 pageviews2026-07-20 — 175 pageviews2026-07-24 — 185 pageviews2026-07-28 — 236 pageviews2026-08-01 — 245 pageviews2026-08-05 — 148 pageviews2026-08-09 — 182 pageviews2026-08-13 — 160 pageviews2026-08-17 — 233 pageviews2026-08-21 — 383 pageviews2026-08-25 — 460 pageviews2026-08-29 — 411 pageviews2026-09-02 — 290 pageviews2026-09-06 — 320 pageviews2026-09-10 — 218 pageviews2026-09-14 — 243 pageviews2026-09-18 — 200 pageviews2026-09-22 — 194 pageviews2026-09-26 — 226 pageviews2026-09-30 — 178 pageviews2026-10-04 — 208 pageviews2026-10-07 — 237 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.7k82026-09-30 22:34 — 61 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 149 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 347 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 90 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 84 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 77 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 27 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 981 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 226 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 155 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 72 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 128 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 55 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 306 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 165 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 468 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 105 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 102 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 430 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 107 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 78 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 100 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 157 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 88 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 149 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 120 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 71 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 149 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 27 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 2,661 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 128 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.8%
earned "Welcome home..."
27.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing7 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Korean

Post-launch support: 7 DLC released, first 2015-02-03, latest 2026-08-18 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGDarkIndieStrategyDifficultRogue-likeTurn-BasedAtmosphericPerma Death

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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