Hours played
How long do people play Darkest Dungeon®?
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 31 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 11 hours and 77 hours.
First 2 h
70% recommend
2–5 h
88% recommend
5–10 h
90% recommend
10–20 h
91% recommend
20–50 h
92% recommend
50–100 h
94% recommend
100–200 h
96% recommend
200–500 h
96% recommend
500 h and up
96% recommend
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. Counted from about 163,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
Does Darkest Dungeon® hold up?
It grows on people: 88% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% past 500 hours.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of Darkest Dungeon® tell you?
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 70% of those recommend it. After the window, 92% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 88% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 16 hours in.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 2 came while a refund was still possible and 18 after the window had closed.
Seal
Darkest Dungeon® grows on you
Grows on you
88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/darkest-dungeon#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/darkest-dungeon/seal/grows-on-you.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Darkest Dungeon®: Grows on you. 88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% past 500 hours played."></a>Everyone's copy
15 of 58 copies here were never launched
In 58 libraries here. 15 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 6.4 h.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 2.4% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 41: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.