A sprawling Darkest Dungeon mod will launch this month, with Black Reliquary (opens in new tab) set to launch on March 24, 2023. The mod is a complete conversion mod with the thumbs-up of the unique Darkest Dungeon builders at Crimson Hook, and the listing of adjustments is… actually massive. It is foremost a gameplay overhaul and completely new marketing campaign with a brand new setting, new characters, new narration, new music, new enemies and info, trinkets, and new participant heroes.
The story will observe a band of heroes as they delve into the Black Reliquary, a monolithic construction in a desolate desert recognized solely as The Valley. Here is how the builders describe it: “Abandon what you assume you already know. The Valley doesn’t know mercy or sympathy, and the trials forward of you’ll be in contrast to something you will have confronted earlier than! End up in your new dwelling aboard the Flameseeker airship, and reunite with an previous acquaintance from a few years previous, as you be part of forces to assault the oppressive and mysterious Black Reliquary.”
There’s each a story-driven release date trailer and extended gameplay trailer for Black Reliquary, each highlighting the extremely quantity of latest artwork and design that has gone right into a free sport growth. Which, to be sincere, is not even what that is. That is some sort of free sequel that fell by means of a crack in actuality from one other dimension.
It’s a lot, and has been within the works for years. It is a type of uncommon mods so completely developed and in depth that it is getting its personal Steam (opens in new tab) web page moderately than be consigned to a Workshop, an honor not often accorded to mods outdoors of these for decade-or-more-old video games like Half-Life 2.
Shout out to the dude enjoying the brand new narrator, who—a minimum of in these trailers—actually nails the gravelly narration one takes with no consideration as a part of the Darkest Dungeon milieu.
That and all of the artwork is absolutely what makes me say this appears like a sequel. Not a sequel within the 2020s sense, the place its been 5 – 6 years because the first, however within the Nineteen Nineties sense the place the Sequel would reuse the engine and a few artwork, overhaul programs, after which go ahead confidently into launch like a 12 months later max.
Black Reliquary be obtainable fully free through Steam to those that personal Darkest Dungeon, the Shieldbreaker DLC, and the Crimson Courtroom DLC. Yow will discover Black Reliquary on Steam (opens in new tab). The Black Reliquary crew funds the customized artwork concerned within the mod through Patreon (opens in new tab), and you’ll observe the mod’s improvement on Twitter (opens in new tab).
Take a look at the gameplay trailer, under.
