Darkest Descent
Fight for your life in the endless halls of a primordial stronghold to escape an endless cycle. You and up to 7 of your friends can coordinate, strategize and conqueror the dungeon together, or you can face the horrors alone.
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16 itemsAbout the Game
Carve Your Path
You are a lost soul tasked with protecting a young woman wandering through the ruins of a long forgotten society, buried deep within the side of a mountaintop. Use powerful spells and weapons to fight your way through the stronghold to uncover ancient knowledge and meet a powerful deity held deep within its chambers in a desperate attempt to escape your fate.
Choose your Specialty
Pick a class best suited for your needs and discover each of their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Each class provides different ways to play and a collection of strange abilities, skills and runes.
Customization and Optimization
You will build your own attacks and powers through the use of spell and rune cards. Cards may have many special effects and synergies leading to many distinctive combinations and builds, experimentation is key. Each card provides a unique benefit, granting powerful buffs to one of your friends, weakening a hostile creature, mending your teammates wounds and obliterating monsters that block your path.
Cooperation and Coordination
Gather a team of up to 8 players and face the unknowable dangers of the stronghold together in this cooperative turn-based dungeon crawler. Master many different skills tailored to help a team, collaboration of your group is crucial for success. Players will have to communicate to decide which paths to take together and what unique specialty each player will hold.
