Sure, my people were developing minor psychoses. I did a few more runs in other parts of the Darkest Dungeon‘s objective-filled map, mostly to explore and push toward the eventual goal of fighting one of the game’s many bosses.
To me, each character is a precious snowflake ice swan baby, and I’m charged with keeping them alive at all costs - while also using them as my primary weapons in an ongoing war against aliens/dragons/Lovecraftian hell denizens. I’d heard how mercilessly difficult the game was, and I’m the sort of player who hates losing anybody in games with permadeath like XCOM and Fire Emblem. There’d been a few close calls, but it’d been a smooth dip into the shallow end of the dungeon pool. “This isn’t so bad,” I said to myself as I completed a preliminary run through an apprentice (that is to say, low-level) location in Darkest Dungeon. Never mind carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. As you earn gold and spend it on new equipment and skills, your characters become stronger, but they never stop being human.
If you take characters on too many adventures in a row, they can lose their minds or even die of heart attacks. That’s to say nothing of your characters’ overall stress levels, which slowly creep upward as a result of enemy encounters or environmental hazards, like an icy hand raising individual hairs on the back of your neck. Overconfidence is the quietest killer - and also the most gleeful. Even the breeziest run can take a turn for the very bottom of the toilet after only one or two false steps. These sorts of things can happen during turn-based battles and outside them as you manoeuvre through dungeons - for instance when you’re rooting around for treasure, only to encounter a trap or noxious disease cloud. Maybe they will develop an eating disorder and start gulping down your precious food reserves. Maybe they will come to fear a certain enemy type or location. There is an enormous list of diseases and mental “quirks” that characters can contract while searching for secrets beneath the estate of a once-proud family.
No matter how successful a dungeon run, your intrepid do-gooders will come back with maladies that turn their iron resolve to piss, pus and puke. At any given moment, your character roster will contain enough people - each representing any of 14 classes - to fill out multiple four-character adventuring parties.
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