Darkest Dungeon

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Eventually you had to do shit like torchless and deliberately bringing shitty parties just to avoid it being a completely boring cakewalk.

This is also where mod players powercreep the enemies with vanilla mob reworks, +50% HP, 1001 roaming minibosses, etc. One of the dreams that Project Iron Crown had for Black Reliquary's Mod Tools™ was a way to replicate DD2's combat, but alas.

@Genderuszk 2.0 apperently that Redraw of The Marauder is being done without even telling Von Hauser; as in he has no idea this is being done behind his back.

Pavel / Soggy Pizza's idea is since he's the project artist for the Marauder he can do whatever he wants with the art.

To be clear, I don't believe anyone should need Von Hauser or Pavel's permission to make a skin, but replacing the current art (as seems to be intended) without telling Von Hauser is a dick move.

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In less gay news, January 19th was Darkest Dungeon's 10th anniversary. Alas that Wayne June didn't live to see it.

A Statement from the Red Hook Founders

When we founded Red Hook, our goal was to support ourselves while making a game of our own dreams. Simple to describe, but not easy. We knew the difficulty, of course, because we had previously worked on other projects at other companies. We had seen our share of canceled games, failed games, or games that were good but couldn't find a large audience.

10 years ago, on Jan 19th, 2016, Darkest Dungeon was "completed" and released as 1.0.

It was immediately clear that we had bottled lightning. Back in the pre-release days, we didn't dare to entertain the fantasy that our work would resonate to the extent it has, or find such a passionate and creative audience. But it did.

As we reflect upon this 10 year run (11 if you include early access), the fullness of time has made us realize that connecting with you, the audience, proved to be one of the most fulfilling and thrilling parts of the entire dungeon crawl. Thanks to you and your perseverance, the game wasn't just flash in the pan.

This game about resilience showed its own resilience. A hardscrabble and mean game about making the best of a bad situation created an incredibly good situation for us and the development team.

We are so grateful for everyone who has ever engaged with Darkest Dungeon over the years - whether by playing, making art, filming let's plays and guides, getting yourself tattooed, writing, posting, commenting, and of course critiquing. (And yes, we love reading about the occasional party wipe due to spiders. Patently unfair, but always funny.)

Whether you have been with us since the days of Kickstarter or just completed the tutorial yesterday (hopefully Reynauld and Dismas both survived), we are happy you are here. And stay tuned - we're not out of the dungeon yet.

This expedition, at least, promises success. -The Ancestor

-Chris Bourassa and Tyler Sigman

Watch their art showcase here or buy their merch here.

Merch includes a Flagellant weeb pillow cover "back by popular demand", so we looped back round to gay news.

 

[The Bigger Scooper]

Pavel / Soggy Pizza's idea is since he's the project artist for the Marauder he can do whatever he wants with the art.

To be clear, I don't believe anyone should need Von Hauser or Pavel's permission to make a skin, but replacing the current art (as seems to be intended) without telling Von Hauser is a dick move.

Apperently Pavel has been earning enemies for being such a massive egoist; doing ironically the exact somethings Von Krolock was accused before MLD shit the bed.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Why this disclaimer? About two months ago, Okako was driven out from the official Discord and the Black Reliquary server for producing drawn sexual content of underage characters and conspiring to harass KiltedDungeoneer (a streamer, ironically the owner of the Squire) for confronting him. Snorlaxxo (a modder who has come up in this thread before, and a DD and BR Discord mod) was demodded from DD and kicked from Team Reliquary for joining this conspiracy, along with a third clown, KBite.

While Okako belongs in a woodchipper, I despise the unpersoning and self-pitying melodrama of the disclaimer on the Steam page. If anyone asks what happened in the official Discord no one will name and shame him, or even link to the summaries I've linked. Instead they'll carry on about how disgusted and shocked they were and how skeevy the mod makes them feel now, and pressure the fresh meat to move on.

There was recently talk of re-doing the Miscreant's art. If the modders pull their heads out of their stinkditches long enough to actually do it, expect the current Miscreant to be memory holed.

Even when DDcord modders are justified in cutting ties with someone they're compelled to do it in the gayest way possible.
(chronological order is bottom to top)

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Red Hook has officially given up on Mythic Games and the Darkest Dungeon board game. Supposedly backers will get an email with the project files from an ex-Mythic employee.

 

[Plagas]

How does Darkest Dungeon 2 stack up to the first one? just as good, much worse?

 

[The Bigger Scooper]

Red Hook has officially given up on Mythic Games and the Darkest Dungeon board game. Supposedly backers will get an email with the project files from an ex-Mythic employee.
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>Dissapointed

Motherfucker, serveral people told Red Hook about Mythic because so many people got fucked over by their other scams.

During the first or second anniversary stream for DD2 some people asked about the board game because Mythic went into insolvency. Chris just brushed that off and I am paraphrasing this "They didn't know anything about the status of Mythic"

So it is either they where ignorant of the status of the board game (despite it literally being their IP.) or they knew but kept their mouths shut as not too make themselves look bad.

Just giving the files amounts to Mighty No. 9's (misattributed) "It's better then nothing" how about you refund the money.

I hope that Epic Games cash influx and getting bought out by Behavior was worth it 'cause your game aint worth a dime.

Welp thats enough sperging today.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

>Dissapointed

Motherfucker, serveral people told Red Hook about Mythic because so many people got fucked over by their other scams.

During the first or second anniversary stream for DD2 some people asked about the board game because Mythic went into insolvency. Chris just brushed that off and I am paraphrasing this "They didn't know anything about the status of Mythic"

So it is either they where ignorant of the status of the board game (despite it literally being their IP.) or they knew but kept their mouths shut as not too make themselves look bad.

Just giving the files amounts to Mighty No. 9's (misattributed) "It's better then nothing" how about you refund the money.

I hope that Epic Games cash influx and getting bought out by Behavior was worth it 'cause your game aint worth a dime.

Welp thats enough sperging today.

Curiosity about whether board game at home Cursed Castle devs ever approached Red Hook intensifies. (Yes, they asked Marvin, MetalGy and Zap.) Apparently they have a reprint which should have started shipping January 2026.

How does Darkest Dungeon 2 stack up to the first one? just as good, much worse?

I saw someone describe DD1 as an XCOM-like (in terms of the Hamlet and team management and persistence, though not in combat). DD2 isn't that. From the short time I played, Confessions doesn't quite stand on its own as a roguelite, and Kingdoms doesn't have the same lore and atmosphere that DD1 and Confessions have. But you might like the combat system enough to put up with it.

On that topic, DD1 and DD2 are currently at their lowest recorded prices on Steam (-92% and -78%).

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

While Okako belongs in a woodchipper, I despise the unpersoning and self-pitying melodrama of the disclaimer on the Steam page. If anyone asks what happened in the official Discord no one will name and shame him, or even link to the summaries I've linked. Instead they'll carry on about how disgusted and shocked they were and how skeevy the mod makes them feel now, and pressure the fresh meat to move on.

There was recently talk of re-doing the Miscreant's art. If the modders pull their heads out of their stinkditches long enough to actually do it, expect the current Miscreant to be memory holed.

Even when DDcord modders are justified in cutting ties with someone they're compelled to do it in the gayest way possible.
(chronological order is bottom to top)

After much sturm und drang, the Miscreant will be deleted off Steam Workshop "eventually".

1. If you feel so strongly that your collaboration has been tainted, say it with your serious face instead of whatever this is.



2. Memory holing anyone's work is ultra gay. Is it so hard to say "This past collaboration does not reflect our current stances about Okako's other work or their actions against other community members, including us, but this mod will remain available - signed Everyone Other Than Okako"?

And tangentially, if all you needed was an Okako-free skin for the Miscreant, an "outsider" like Dada could have done one in a week. So posturing about AI and being broke or having no time was more important.

The Miscreant First Recruit event mod and the NG+ Patch are by neogulyi / ShallowIris. If Iris ever reappears, he might take down the former and/or alter Miscreant support in the latter. The other accessory mods are less likely to go down. All but the Miscreant party limit remover mod are currently available on Skymods. (The Miscreant party limit remover is unavoidably not fully stable, as admitted in its description.)

Edit:

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

After much sturm und drang, the Miscreant will be deleted off Steam Workshop "eventually".

The Miscreant is back under new management. (Ghostarchive of Steam page)

Spoiler: Steam Description Text

Greetings Steam User, I am Hunter. If you do not know who the artist is of this mod, then please carry on and download. I will be leaving out names other than what's on any presented images.

I do not agree with the notions of the artist but here's the skinny of it: They're a lolicon, self admitted, they've been ousted from the major servers of the DD community, and no it wasn't just a single age up of Megumin.

They perpetuate a space for those who see no issue in sexual predation and excuse it with the thinly veiled excuse "it's fiction, doesn't matter." Their own admission even states that they care not of the characters presented in sexual positions, lewd shots, etc are young, loli, whatever as long as it is fiction.

It's my obligation, as the uploader, to lay this truth out cold and hard to anyone who uses this mod to know. Most Steam Users don't read as is the meme but this is here for those that do care about morals. It's important to have this known, burying this fact is against my ethos.

I will not remove this disclaimer, I will not remove anything already written here nor will I not write anything I don't already have proof of.

If any claim of harassers to this individual occurs, do feel free to expose them for a public name and shame, I will tolerate that from anyone. This disclaimer serves to tell the truth and only but, not as a platform to encourage harassment. I stand to display the acts of this individual while maintaining a public, unedited upload of this mod.

The previous mod team is no longer responsible for this project and is solely my responsibility going forward.

Any comments, concerns or bugs confine it to a Discussion Thread as Comments will be closed.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Edit: Deal is off. Everything goes back up.

One guesses that the "deal" was about putting Discord screenshots from Okako in the Steam screenshots roll (visible in Ghostarchive).



But of course, Hunter / .monster__hunter. is a self-admitted furry porn artist who claims to be an ex-Marine who lost a leg in Ukraine.

J

🦊 Furry Post in thread 'Furry Fandom and Drama General'

Dec 8, 2025

Meet .monster__hunter. ID 1276568030977200209


Kicked out of the USMC because of Blumpf
And he had to divorce his >wife for Ukraine, you see, because his warrior's soul can never know peace
But he's not fired, he quit because muh illegal orders and deportations
And he lost his leg in Ukraine and shouldn't be alive and now he has a prosthetic engraved with the names of the fallen
(All that story unfolded over a few months, not in one off-topic dump)
And he's so hard he can kick border Nazis in the balls with steel toed boots and get away with it
...

• Jenny Sider

Reactions: x 5 x 1 x 1

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[AnOminous]

How does Darkest Dungeon 2 stack up to the first one? just as good, much worse?

Most people like it less. I personally haven't been able to get into it. Others like it, but if you look at stats, it generally has fewer players.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

The Miscreant is back under new management. (Ghostarchive of Steam page)

This link is currently down, whether due to DMCA or due to (censored) uploads of Okako's porn ironically violating Steam guidelines. Not to be deterred, Hunter / JackingWay / WankingWay posted an unlisted reupload. (Ghostarchive)

In other news, the Fiend Festival region, another S-Purple-concepted collab mod, has finally been released. Its two major pain points are the use of Black Reliquary's Prep Round in base DD where not every class has setup skills, and the furries. Though of course DDcord modders see the furries as Owning the Chuds.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I like the irony that the true sequel for DD is literally retarded cat raising simulator, as the legacy of the original gets cemented as a hotbed of trannies and degenerates.

In some way it's really fitting.

 

[AnOminous]

Yet another example of troons ruining EVERYTHING.

 

[The Bigger Scooper]

I like the irony that the true sequel for DD is literally retarded cat raising simulator, as the legacy of the original gets cemented as a hotbed of trannies and degenerates.

In some way it's really fitting.

Considerng it appears support for DD2 is done; and anything related to modding is bland. Its kinda to be expected the golden age was 2016-2020.

 

[Irrational Bounty Hunter]

This link is currently down, whether due to DMCA or due to (censored) uploads of Okako's porn ironically violating Steam guidelines. Not to be deterred, Hunter / JackingWay / WankingWay posted an unlisted reupload. (Ghostarchive)

In other news, the Fiend Festival region, another S-Purple-concepted collab mod, has finally been released. Its two major pain points are the use of Black Reliquary's Prep Round in base DD where not every class has setup skills, and the furries. Though of course DDcord modders see the furries as Owning the Chuds.

They've completely lost the plot at this point with the art direction, this just straight up looks retarded. With Black Reliquary you could argue that it was stylized well for Darkest Dungeon (and I would agree, it was overall very impressive) but this is outright unappealing. The obsession with giving everything a massive ass or pair of tits is clearly having detrimental effects on their brains in the long term.

 

[The Bigger Scooper]

The obsession with giving everything a massive ass or pair of tits is clearly having detrimental effects on their brains in the long term.

I mean thats more because of S-Purple concepts, what should be more criticized is that disgusting furry stuff, like come on now.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

The official Discord's Mod Showcase is back after 4 years. Submit links to mods through Google Forms (incognito, does not seem to require sign in) or to feedback@redhookgames.com with the title "MOD SHOWCASE SUGGESTIONS".


Unfortunately Nemesis has not produced a class. An alternative is Modded Dungeons Music Fix (not by Nemesis), which was uploaded in 2025, and is both useful and highlights the lack of care Red Hook put into the DD engine. (Basically, there is only one unused music slot and all dungeons with custom music have to fight for it. This mod repackages the music from all the dungeon mods into one bank and defines triggers for them by torturing the engine. It has to be manually updated if a new dungeon mod comes out or music is updated.)

Of course no one should interfere.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

About two months ago, Okako was driven out from the official Discord and the Black Reliquary server for producing drawn sexual content of underage characters and conspiring to harass KiltedDungeoneer (a streamer, ironically the owner of the Squire) for confronting him. Snorlaxxo (a modder who has come up in this thread before, and a DD and BR Discord mod) was demodded from DD and kicked from Team Reliquary for joining this conspiracy, along with a third clown, KBite.

This link is currently down, whether due to DMCA or due to (censored) uploads of Okako's porn ironically violating Steam guidelines. Not to be deterred, Hunter / JackingWay / WankingWay posted an unlisted reupload. (Ghostarchive)

KBite, one of Okako's alleged co-conspirators, has re-emerged with a public reupload of the Miscreant. (Ghostarchive)

No doubt KBite is conveniently downplaying his role, and the Steam page neither blasts Okako's perversions nor gives him credit for the art.

Presumably this is unacceptable to Hunter, because new public uploads have been posted under the JackingWay / WankingWay handle. Guible / Siyo of the Seminole uploaded a few minutes before Hunter with Hunter's thumbnail, which is interesting because some days ago Siyo reuploaded a non-public Apollyon mod claiming they were porting a Chinese mod, and DDcord modders were upset. They also did a very basic eyeless edit of Jiangshi's alternative skin and the edit is also no longer public.

Spoiler: Siyo screenshots

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In less gay news, Seal's standalone game set in the Black Reliquary universe, Wundertrench, can now be wishlisted on Steam, though future news would be off-topic for this thread.

https://nitter.net/Slightly_Seal/status/2027483289963933774

 

[_Delirium]

Well that was a lot of tranny drama.