News video games 25 June 2022, 15:45

Darkest Dungeon 2 Not Coming to Steam Any Time Soon

Steam users will have to wait until next year for the release of Darkest Dungeon II. Early access will still only be available through Epic Games Store.

I have bad news for all players holding off on buying the roguelike Darkest Dungeon II until it will be available on Steam. According to the game's official card the title will debut on Steam only in February 2023 - this confirms previous information about the Steam release, made available by the developers.

For now, the title created by Red Hook Studios remains in the early access phase, and only Epic Games Store customers can purchase it. Everything indicates that it will remain so until the official release. This also means that the usual one-year exclusivity period for this platform will be exceeded in this case. Recall that the title went into early access on October 26, 2021 and rapidly became a success.

The first part Darkest Dungeon gained popularity thanks to (or in spite of) its high level of difficulty, as well as a dark, dense atmosphere. It is worth mentioning, however, that the work on this game and later expansions tired the developers, who did not want to duplicate the same schemes in the sequel. That is why they decided to introduce a number of changes in Darkest Dungeon II, refreshing the gameplay for example by switching to 3D graphics.

Krzysztof Kaluzinski

At GRYOnline.pl, works in the Newsroom. He is not afraid to tackle various topics, although he prefers news about independent productions in the style of Disco Elysium. In his childhood, he wrote fantasy stories, played a lot on Pegasus, and then on a computer. He turned his passion into a profession as an editor of a gaming portal run with a friend, as well as a copywriter and advisor in a console store. He doesn't care for remakes and long-running series. Since childhood, he wanted to write a novel, although he is definitely better at creating characters than plot. That's probably why he fell in love with RPGs (paper and virtual). He was raised in the 90s, to which he would gladly return. Loves Tarantino movies, thanks to Mad Max and the first Fallout he lost himself in post-apo, and Berserk convinced him to dark fantasy. Today he tries his hand at e-commerce and marketing, while also supporting the Newsroom on weekends, which allows him to continue cultivating old passions.

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