If that isnt enough, youll discover that your friends arent as united as you once thought.

You try your best to keep the group together, but it will all be futile in the end.

However, most of the time, only bad things happen.

Bounty Hunter and plague doctor, hester, runaway, and man-at-arms at inn

It just doesnt stop.

Kingdoms, its biggest DLC yet, is genius.

If your inns dont have anyone to defend them when the invasion starts, they will be destroyed.

Sprites of 10 different trinkets from Darkest Dungeon 2 on a blurred background

Lose five inns and youre out.

Also, you might have 12 characters to use now, but permadeath is still a thing.

Do you feel like you know everything about DD2 and it has become a walk in the park?

characters making drugs in schedule 1.

Dont worry, this is what youre looking for.

Youre still playing the same game, but the modified structure makes you keep dozens more variables in mind.

Its like jumping from a party-based RPG to an RTS.

A collage showing beasts in black and white and one of the female characters in the center, screaming.

For instance, you could improve an inn and hire low-level soldiers to protect it when youre gone.

As a result of this increased depth, your sessions with Darkest Dungeon 2 could be much longer.

I had one of three hours and a second one of four, and I didnt successfully complete either.

An overview of the first map available in Darkest Dungeon 2 Kingdoms.

If you lose, you start over from scratch.

Yet much to my surprise, I love the new DLC.

Situations like these and the indescribable satisfaction that comes from them are what Darkest Dungeon 2 is all about.

A message showing one of the possible nerfs that you can get after a day passes in Kingdoms.

You’ll need Trinkets to survive Darkest Dungeon 2, but which are the best?

A siege taking place in The Shallow Grave, one of you camps in Kingdoms. On the left you can see what defenses you have.

The carriage standing still before a fork with two possible paths and no clear answers to what is waiting on the other side.

A Plague Doctor winning a siege after being the only one left in the party and having very low health.

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