After four years in Early Access on the Epic Games Store, it finally released on Steam on May 8th, 2023.

The sequel, Darkest Dungeon II, was announced in February 2019.

On April 2020 they announced a new free DLC pack for the game, The Butcher's Circus, which features a new biome and player vs player combat. A Nintendo Switch version was released on January 18th, 2018. The iPad version was released on August 24th, 2017, and The Crimson Court is scheduled to be released later. A second DLC, named The Color of Madness, was released on June 19th, 2018. A paid DLC expansion named The Crimson Court was released on June 19th, 2017 for computers, and on August 22nd, 2017 for consoles. The game was fully released on Janufor Microsoft Windows and OS X computers, with a Linux release on April 26th, 2016, and a release for PlayStation 4 and Play Station Vita consoles on September 27th, 2016. On February 3, 2015, the Steam version was released as an Early Access title. Darkest Dungeon focuses on the humanity and psychological vulnerability of the heroes and asks: What emotional toll does a life of adventure take? You will send out teams of recruited heroes on a perilous side-scrolling descent, dealing with a prodigious number of threats to their bodily health, and worse, a relentless assault on their mental fortitude! Five hundred feet below the earth you will not only fight unimaginable foes, but famine, disease, and the stress of the ever-encroaching dark. Your goal is to drive back these horrors and redeem the family name. You are the heir of a former noble family, damned due to the actions of a hedonistic forebear who spent the family fortune excavating an ancient portal underneath the family estate and inadvertently releasing an untold number of Eldritch Abominations. Darkest Dungeon is a challenging Gothic Horror Dungeon Crawling RPG about the stresses of dungeon crawling, developed by Red Hook Studios.

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