Darkest Dungeon®
Worth it · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7485% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.44/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 163,616
- Critics
- 84 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Roguelike
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 56.4h
- To 100%
- 128.4h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 21% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 126
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6,016 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
94 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Legend of Keepers: Prologue (free, scores 77) and Darkest Dungeon® II ($39.99, scores 38).
More about Darkest Dungeon®
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 8 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 4,459 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 56.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 128, 2.3 times as much.
163,616 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Good game. I don't play strategy games like this often, but this game has. Deep strategy. In my opinion. I'm not good at it, but it's fun. Requires thinking which I don't always have.
2 more reviews
Love the game. Runs great no lags. One of the few games i can play with no difficulty
A little while ago I was obsessed with a game called no skin. It was a horror Roguelike that really took me for a ride, so much so that I made the effort to 100% it which is rare for me. Ever since I've been looking for that same high and have gone through many a game only to be left disappointed. In steps Darkest Dungeon and suddenly I'm right back there. Don't get me wrong the Gameplay loop is very different but...
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About the game
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?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Darkest Dungeon® scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/262060/darkest-dungeonReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.