Darkest Dungeon II will come out of early access in February 2023

Red Hook Studios has announced that it will launch version 1.0 of Darkest Dungeon II in February 2023, thus leaving its early access. At that time it will be when it is officially published in PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store , with a console launch that will arrive later, even without specific dates.

Since the study opened its anticipated access in the Epic store, the last of them The Shrow of the Deep has been updated. In addition to the usual errors corrections in these releases in test phases, they have taken advantage of the community to announce improvements in the relationship system within the game so that the issue of affinity between characters is more attractive and has more impact. Although in the content per se no new added are expected for now, they point out that the team is mainly focusing on polishing all aspects of the game, although their future plans will mainly go through adjusting and improving trinkets.

The title began its Early Access phase on October 26, 2021, when its official launch date was still set for that year, after its announcement in 2019. Of course, Darkest Dungeon II will maintain the dark tone of the first part, Although with characters that go from 2D to 3D, and their main themes will be hope, courage and determination. Just before the announcement of the test version, the study presented some details about its fight, which is deeper than the first to include nine extra classes and some new mechanics.

My partner Marta Trivi was convinced in her first impressions of this early access, when she highlighted her ability to maintain the virtues of the prequel knowing how to modify her structure and references of her, although still with things to polish:

Her narrative is reinforced with multiple references and ironic winks to the hero's journey with the clear intention of developing metaphors that go beyond the constructs of Gothic and _lovecraftiana_lovecraftiana_lovecraftiana_lovecraftiana, promising a novel approach to the different manias and phobias. However, Red Hook Studio has a long way ahead. Make the extensive maps do not become repetitive and the different confessions contribute something beyond their final boss must be some of their priorities. However, this advance gives us what we wanted. We have a very clear thing again: only crazy people, fools and masochists will leave this trip alive.

Here you can read your first impressions.

Version 1.0 of Darkest Dungeon II will be published in February 2023 for PC , through Steam and Epic Games Store .