2016 · Turn-Based Combat · Dungeon Crawler · Dark Fantasy
How long isDarkest Dungeon®?
by Red Hook Studios
31 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 11 hours and 77 hours
Darkest Dungeon® among the 170 party RPGs here
The whole tier list#4
of 170
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 73%
- got past 2 hours
- +29 on the kind's 45%
- 33%
- past 20 hours
- +16 on the kind's 17%
- 88%
- launched it
- +29 on the kind's 58%
- 462
- libraries own it
- 1 in 5 of the 2,472 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Almost always played: only 12% of the owners here never launched it, fewer than for 150 of 152 party RPGs.
70% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
88% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
90% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
91% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
92% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
94% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
96% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
96% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Darkest Dungeon® hold up?
Grows on people
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.
Do the first two hours of Darkest Dungeon® tell you?
In the first two hours70%recommend it
After that92%recommend it
8 in 100 said no: 7 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
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.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. 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.
It grows on people: 88% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% past 500 hours.
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.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 31 hours on Monday, December 14.
Half of its reviewers had played between 11 and 77 hours: Nov 24 to Jan 29, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
How far do players get in Darkest Dungeon®?
Launched it 100%
Earned its most common achievement 94%
Earned a typical achievement 9.4%
How this is counted
Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.
Is Darkest Dungeon® worth it?
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Darkest Dungeon®
- Steam list price, US
- $24.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 31 h
- party RPG rate
- $1.05/h
- 31 h at that rate
- $33
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Darkest Dungeon® worth it? Yes.
Good value
1.3× the hours of a typical party RPG, for the same money
Loved
92% recommend it after the refund windowmost party RPGs: 89%
Gets played
88% of owners here have played itmost party RPGs: 59%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 31 hours come to 81¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 81¢ an hour, Darkest Dungeon® is cheaper per hour than 136 of 205 party RPGs here: the typical one of 205 party RPGs here charges $1.05, so the same $24.99 buys 1.3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (party RPGs) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Darkest Dungeon® today?
Almost anywhere
PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and 1 more.
- PS Vita2016
- todayiPhone2017
- todayXbox One2018
- todaySwitch2018
- todayPC2018in Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition
- todayPS42019in Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Darkest Dungeon® came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Darkest Dungeon®?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Darkest Dungeon®, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Darkest Dungeon® would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@miojo holds this page
- 1st
@miojo196 h - 2nd
@goofy-ahh-face127 h - 3rd
@nu1x63 h - 4th
@mossyotter61 h - 5th@slowspeaker61 h
- 6th
@player-4344 h - 7th
@nestortillo42 h - 8th
@ermoldan5.8 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Darkest Dungeon®?
- B
The middle pick of 13 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 40
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
In @miojo's Top 4
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
Games like Darkest Dungeon®
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Darkest Dungeon, but you're the villain, and half the hours
Liked · 85%Games like Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Legend of Keepers
Darkest Dungeon, but a management game, and a turn-based tactics game
Mixed · 79%Games like Legend of Keepers
Othercide
Darkest Dungeon, but a turn-based tactics game, and a third of the hours
Liked · 82%Games like Othercide
Mordheim: City of the Damned
Darkest Dungeon, but not a roguelike, and more divisive
Mixed · 70%Games like Mordheim: City of the Damned
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Darkest Dungeon®: a kind of game it is that Darkest Dungeon® is not, a feature its tags carry that Darkest Dungeon®'s barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.