


Newly recruited heroes typically come with 2-3 quirks, not all of which are necessarily beneficial.


Quirks are random character traits that every hero comes with. Transforming into beast form causes party members stress, while shifting back to human form relieves stress. His two forms offer a variety blight, knockback, and stun abilities. A shape-shifting class that switches between human and beast forms. Has several support skills and one that re-positions enemies. Although more powerful it heals at random and is also associated with a chance to bleed. Along with the vestal, he is one of the classes that can heal a party member. She is therefore very adept at dealing with enemies with high HP. Blight along with bleed are debuffs that can stack on one enemy. Her abilities are centered around the theme of blight. She is notable for having high damage abilities that are associated with debuffs. All her abilities are focused on killing the enemy either as direct damage or bleeding them out. She is also the best class that can deal with traps. She is notable for having skills that raises her accuracy while attacking. She uses knives and a pickaxe to deal damage. He is notable for having a skill that re-positions himself to the back if he ever finds himself in the front. Equipped with guns, he prefers to deal damage from the back. He is also notable for having skills centered around dungeon lighting. Unlike the Leper, the Crusader can re-position himself to the front while attacking at the same time. He is notable for having high damage but poor accuracy. He is one of the classes that prefers to be up front because his skills are limited to hitting front row enemies. He is also notable for having high critical chance and a skill that re-positions himself to the front while also attacking. He is the only class that has a party buff via his lute playing. She is also notable for having several support skills centered around dungeon lighting. She is one of the classes that has a heal spell and the only one that has party heal. He is also notable for marking and stunning enemies. He is one of the classes that can disrupt enemy positioning via his hook ability which can drag enemies in the back to the front. The game revolves around selecting a party of four in the town screen and then delving into a dungeon, of which there are five. It fully released for PC/MAC on January 19th, 2016. The game was available as an Early Access title from Steam. It turns out that constant dungeon raiding can make even the best of heroes crack under pressure. which affects the adventurer's stats and actions depending on how stressed they are. The most notable of these is the stress level. However, there are several systems in the game that shakes the foundation of traditional RPGs. Darkest Dungeon is, categorically, a turn-based role playing game.
