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Doom’ journey of hope against all odds.”Īlongside this Q&A, Red Hook was also kind enough to give us a look at some more detailed Steam data for Darkest Dungeon II. But the sequel? It’s “about hope - specifically the hope that you can overcome your own failures through the act of guided perseverance. The sequel has ‘anchors’ from the original, but riffs off them very differently : While “tied together by Darkest Dungeon’s signature turn-based combat”, DD II “is a straight road trip roguelite, where you assemble a party of four heroes and then attempt to defeat one of five different end bosses.” This contrasts majorly to the original, where “we put you in the position of a medieval hockey-coach, where you have to manage a roster of upwards of two-dozen different heroes.”Īlthough they look visually similar, the games have different vibes: Sigman explains: “The first game is quite nihilistic at its core - the premise is that you are heading home to inherit a familial estate that has been driven to ruin and madness”, and it goes downhill from there. This led us instead to… using the sequel to do and say something somewhat different - but related - to the first game.” We didn’t feel that approach played to our studio’s strengths… & weren’t as interested in that, creatively. The first option is the direct iterative sequel - for example, The Witcher franchise - everything the game before did, but… bigger and better. Here’s some takeaways:ĭarkest Dungeon II was a deliberately alternative approach to a sequel: Sigman notes: “There are essentially two ways to do sequels. So we asked Red Hook’s Tyler Sigman all about it. But DD II also has some intriguing elements of player controversy over its new direction. This is impressive in a world where sequels aren’t always easy to get right. Its gameplay loop is engaging and fun, & while some don’t dig the shift to roguelike, others v.much do: “not the same thing as DD1, but just as fun and challenging”.”ĭD II launched at 600k Steam wishlist balance - and around 35k Steam followers. “ Darkest Dungeon II … from Red Hook Studios had a better than expected debut, with 23,700 CCU (surpassing the original’s CCU peak of 19,300 users), and 3,400+ Mostly Positive reviews.
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As we narrated for our paid Plus subscribers on its week of release: Īnd when Darkest Dungeon II hit 1.0 on EGS and made it to Steam for the first time on May 8th, 2023, with a price adjustment to $40, it quickly broke big. The sequel - which switches up the original game’s formula in a few key ways - was a strong seller among non-AAA EGS ‘timed exclusives’, selling an impressive 300,000+ units on Epic Games Store at $30 during the 18-month Early Access period, according to a recent interview with the Red Hook team.
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So when the sequel released on Epic Games Store in Early Access form in October 2021, many wondered - how would the team follow it up, especially given the OG Darkest Dungeon has “multiple years of free updates & paid DLC improving it, including all the quality-of-life elements that result”, as Sigman comments. In some ways, this was surprising - Red Hook’s co-founder and game design director Tyler Sigman jokes to us: “Our logline of ‘a game about the psychological stresses of adventuring’ never felt like a surefire widespread hit to us!” The title - which now has 5.2 million players on Steam, according to data Red Hook shares below - has been one of the biggest ‘grimdark’ Steam games of the last decade. If you don’t know Red Hook Studios’ original ‘gothic turn-based RPG’ Darkest Dungeon, which debuted on Steam Early Access in January 2015, we’d be surprised. Darkest Dungeon II: a hit with focused ‘differences’ While we await the blessed moment when ‘hot game scopps’ rain down upon us all like confetti at a Flo Rida-guesting bar mitzvah, we have lots of game discoverability data and insight for you all - starting with a look at the data behind a hit sequel.
What’s going to be the most surprising comeback of the summer*? (*That isn’t Tim Langdell’s ‘Edge ’?) Let’s all wait and see…
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We can feel it, folks: Hype O’Clock - aka the ‘not E3’ reveals of myriad new PC and console video games - are almost fully upon us.
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