

The difficulty? Nail-biting, unforgiving, and viciously punishing. The gameplay? Deceptively complex and well crafted without being unintuitive. The art style? Profoundly unsettling and unmistakably stylish. The music? Intense, thematic, and anxiety spiking. It is only in the world of video games that we lovers of medieval horror can get our fix.ĭarkest Dungeon is one of the greatest medieval horror games to date alongside A Plague Tale: Innocence, the Castlevania and Dark Souls franchises, and Amnesia: the Dark Descent (A game that doesn’t technically count despite its highly medieval feel due to the fact that it takes place in the 1800’s).ĭarkest Dungeon has it all, and is frankly one of my all time favorite games.

Few books touch it, and even fewer movies bother making an attempt. There’s not nearly enough medieval horror.
