DM: Beware adventurers, for this darkness is not like the darkness seen in most other dungeons. In this labyrinth of evil and gloom, the darkness is a living being, a monster beyond natural understanding, only barely held back by the light of your torches. Should your fires die out, you will surely drown in the darkness, until the fires in your souls are smothered into mere embers and put out as well. Cleric: okay, I cast light. Plus, I have darkvision. DM: Fuck.
So true. most games are about skill, where if you are better than the rest, you have the highest chance of winning. But this...this is luck, anyone can win, it makes it interesting and not knowing where stuff is, is pretty scary.
@@seanlee2730 Darkest Dungeon is a very stylish and challenging turn-based RPG. It also involves exploring dungeons with a party of very mortal heroes, and you have a torch that you can ignite or snuff to alter the risk and rewards of your delve. The end game kinda drags on and can become a slog, but the music, art, narration, atmosphere, and combat are all really good.
Man, my friends and I rented this game out for Halloween, and we had so much fun with it! It even recommends an official Spotify playlist that you can have in the background and playing with only candlelightfor the mood. So much tension and fun.
"You see lurking in the gloom a shambling husk of what was once a man, decaying, maggot infested flesh dripping from his decrepit form. From whence his ruinous remains fall, new meat grows to take its place and quickly rots again. His bones show through occasionally, blackened from centuries of magically induced, unending decay. One can only hope he no longer thinks. Roll init-" *NEED A BREAK FROM THE ADS?*
I haven't played it, but my worry is that it is mostly luck based and not much strategy or tactics are required, based on my impression given all the random elements presented in this video. Me and my friends like strategic games. Am I misunderstanding this one? It seems like a fun concept but I'm concerned that it might just be a cool series of luck events
@@danielhughes3758 luck is sort of the point. The game is against you but that's horror for You. There are some things You can do to alleviate the pressure tho. I love it. Communicating is the Big strategy here.
@@danielhughes3758 It is a lot of luck but sometimes strategy is needed as well. Counting how many door tiles are left, having someone stay behind to hold the door and preventing a path from connecting to the door, managing encounters with monsters to alleviate how badly it hurts fellow players
My friend got this game and we played it together once. It was SUPER fun! Our group struggled to get into board games because of how it gets when competing against eachother, and this game let us enjoy a more cooperative experience that was honestly a blast.
You should try out forbidden island where you work together and trade cards with each other so you can get all of the statues and escape as the island slowly sinks into the sea.
Only time I played Forbidden Island was with a type-A red personality who just told everybody what to do, so it looked kinda fun watching him play himself I guess?
@@camronchavez7654 i have dozens of videogames for if i want to play a game by myself. if i want to play a board game its in all likelyhood because i want the social aspects of it.
Reminds me of Forbidden desert but more eldritch horror than Steampunk. Your airship crashed in a desert and you need to find all the missing pieces to fix it up and get it. However there is a storm brewing. After each players turn the storm covers up and moves tiles around. With the sun beating down on you, you need to manage your water supplies with cover or special artifacts. Get all the pieces back to the landing site to win.
This reminds me a lot about The Darkest Dungeon and I already love it. I have to buy it. It would be even cooler to play it while being actually in the dark with only candles and if you lose, you blow out the candle
Very interesting concept. And it’s nice to see that some people are still interested in board games. My only suggestion is that perhaps the candle playing pieces should be 3-D and stand up to make them easier to move. (Maybe even make each one a color coded LED light.)
I've only seen a handful of your videos thus far, and I'd like to try all of these for my little group. These I haven't seen covered by any other channel. Good stuff.
I like the randomness element of the game, it gives the players some choices when playing the game. PVE games like forbidden desert and pandemic can be played by one player simply because there is often a best choice to make.
Fear & Hunger and Amnesia had a child and it was a board game
Fear and hunger amnesia and inscription all in one
Will it grow into a video game?
Fear and Hunger: that's not my child. It has all its limbs intact
This reminded me more of dark wood
@@TenmaBackup Dark Wood doesn't really have dungeons like this. I may be wrong since I haven't finished the swamp yet.
Real cool idea. It is good to see that board-games are still alive and well, along with the highly imaginative creation of new ones.
The board game scene been poppin off fr
Yeah
Board games are super super active tbh. It's awesome
Blame Catan
Yeah! I’m in a couple of clubs and I swear someone shows up with a new board game every week!
The table top scene is huge brother.
Yep, this is going into my mental “dnd one-shot” idea folder
Make sure you say something like "deep dark pit" and not bottomless...
@@brandonreed9508 I throw my bag of holding in!
Right?
D&D, smh this is best played in Torchbearer or Best left Buried
Lol, torches, produce flame, dancing lights, and the light cantrip say hi. It won't work.
“All the darkness in the universe cannot extinguish the light from a single candle.” - Saint Francis
Until it does. 😈
It's what manner of creature the darkness creates.
@@OriginalNuckChorristime extinguishes it, not the darkness
This sounds like a hellish game. I'm going to use it to inspire a dnd dungeon
My thoughts exactly
Now that I think about it, you could probably use this game for the dungeons!
Yes, I will do this too. It’s strange how so much can be used for DnD
DM: Beware adventurers, for this darkness is not like the darkness seen in most other dungeons. In this labyrinth of evil and gloom, the darkness is a living being, a monster beyond natural understanding, only barely held back by the light of your torches. Should your fires die out, you will surely drown in the darkness, until the fires in your souls are smothered into mere embers and put out as well.
Cleric: okay, I cast light. Plus, I have darkvision.
DM: Fuck.
@willc3697 That's why you say it's a special type of magical darkness.
"then you'll be consumed by this darkness"
Sounds fun, I wanna play it
Yo I want to see an animation based on this game
Or game this would be a super fun small time steam game like lethal company
Imma make it
@Ki0lin good luck lad
o7 @Ki0lin
@@Ki0lin bet ima watch it when it drops
I'm putting this on my Christmas wishlist
did you got it?
I'm definitely gonna pick that up at some point that looks awesome
It does
I have it, and it's an interesting play.
@@definitely-not-you Nice
So true. most games are about skill, where if you are better than the rest, you have the highest chance of winning. But this...this is luck, anyone can win, it makes it interesting and not knowing where stuff is, is pretty scary.
@@prebenkulsnakes and ladders are luck based
Sounds like every caving trip ive ever been on! Its really being with your friends that makes it so fun ❤
Its called spelunking
What the fuck
Yo what caves you go in
Nah you are a victim
What bro 😭
That's certainly a dark dungeon, possibly even the Darkest Dungeon
@@seanlee2730 I'm pretty sure there's a game called Darkest Dungeon
That's correct. @@thetorterradude
@@seanlee2730 Light is also an important mechanic in that game as well.
@@seanlee2730 Darkest Dungeon is a very stylish and challenging turn-based RPG. It also involves exploring dungeons with a party of very mortal heroes, and you have a torch that you can ignite or snuff to alter the risk and rewards of your delve.
The end game kinda drags on and can become a slog, but the music, art, narration, atmosphere, and combat are all really good.
i was looking for someone to mention Darkest Dungeon
Man, my friends and I rented this game out for Halloween, and we had so much fun with it! It even recommends an official Spotify playlist that you can have in the background and playing with only candlelightfor the mood. So much tension and fun.
"You see lurking in the gloom a shambling husk of what was once a man, decaying, maggot infested flesh dripping from his decrepit form. From whence his ruinous remains fall, new meat grows to take its place and quickly rots again. His bones show through occasionally, blackened from centuries of magically induced, unending decay. One can only hope he no longer thinks. Roll init-"
*NEED A BREAK FROM THE ADS?*
I played this at a convention once! Great game. It comes with and eerie soundtrack to listen to while you play.
But you didn't buy it? :/
@@Phildiculous I did, actually. We also bought 20 other board games at the convention and haven't gotten back to playing it.
I haven't played it, but my worry is that it is mostly luck based and not much strategy or tactics are required, based on my impression given all the random elements presented in this video.
Me and my friends like strategic games. Am I misunderstanding this one? It seems like a fun concept but I'm concerned that it might just be a cool series of luck events
@@danielhughes3758 luck is sort of the point. The game is against you but that's horror for You. There are some things You can do to alleviate the pressure tho. I love it. Communicating is the Big strategy here.
@@danielhughes3758 It is a lot of luck but sometimes strategy is needed as well. Counting how many door tiles are left, having someone stay behind to hold the door and preventing a path from connecting to the door, managing encounters with monsters to alleviate how badly it hurts fellow players
His voice and music gives me chills
My friend got this game and we played it together once. It was SUPER fun! Our group struggled to get into board games because of how it gets when competing against eachother, and this game let us enjoy a more cooperative experience that was honestly a blast.
You should try out forbidden island where you work together and trade cards with each other so you can get all of the statues and escape as the island slowly sinks into the sea.
@@crimsonsonic2 I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Pandemic is a nice cooperative game too
@@awkwardvulpix3085 Yes, super simple Coop game that works well for beginners.
Every group I played it with had a lot of fun.
Only time I played Forbidden Island was with a type-A red personality who just told everybody what to do, so it looked kinda fun watching him play himself I guess?
Art style is great
in LOVE with everything about this. the design is simple but the aura is incredible, and i absolutely adore the monster designs and concepts
Glad to see other DMs agree to run a One-Shot based on this.
I like how we all came to the conclusion that this would make a great dnd game
very simple premise but set up the mood just right and it's an eerie, contemplative experience. I liked it!
I love this game! The maze evolves and changes around you the moment you look away, and it makes for a really fun night with the buds
The art here is just amazing
We need digital version of this
Naaaa boy!! Play at the table PA’
it would absolutely be very very popular if it was a video game misssed oppurtinity ngl
This is 1 of the excellent way to Promote the Product !
I love Night cage so much, definitely worth playing, five players is the best
Reminds me of the warhammer game with the scouts and tyranids. Nice!
i wish i had ppl to play with this looks cool as hell
You can play it as one player!
@@camronchavez7654 i have dozens of videogames for if i want to play a game by myself. if i want to play a board game its in all likelyhood because i want the social aspects of it.
Looks like fun. Imagine playing with the lights off using real candlelight!? Lol
This would be an excellent horror game or animation
Played this for the first time this last weekend. So fun. We even set the mood w only electric candles lighting around us and creep music playing
I love the style and idea of this game but I was so confused playing it for the first time
What a wonderful iteration on a Labyrinth like board game, really cool
In that game, "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and incidius killer."
The artwork here is what sells it.
Reminds me of Forbidden desert but more eldritch horror than Steampunk.
Your airship crashed in a desert and you need to find all the missing pieces to fix it up and get it. However there is a storm brewing. After each players turn the storm covers up and moves tiles around. With the sun beating down on you, you need to manage your water supplies with cover or special artifacts.
Get all the pieces back to the landing site to win.
Wow this sent me str8 back to my childhood, we used to play a similar board game back in 2007
..... New DND map idea.... Gonna need to buy this
the gigantic board taking beast looks amazing
They should actually make this into a real horror game.
…it actually is a real horror game. The TH-camr didn’t make it up.
It’s so real you can even buy the game at a store where they sell other games.
Sounds like a series of mechanics that could make an amazing DnD session.
Darkwood vibes
Sir, you have my respect for knowing that game.
Oh good, I wasn't the only one feeling that
This just gave me a great idea for a dnd dungeon, thank you
I love your reviews.
Thank you for making me more afraid of the dark:)
Just listening to this gave me chills!! How can a boardgame be this terrifying??
That sounds amazing!
That's cool! It's like a nightmare version of Forbidden Island.
Definitely a fun boardgame, played it a few months ago at a local boardgame cafe
This reminds me a lot about The Darkest Dungeon and I already love it. I have to buy it. It would be even cooler to play it while being actually in the dark with only candles and if you lose, you blow out the candle
Darkwood is an indie game on steam that is exactly remiscient of this dark art style for those who are interested
Very interesting concept. And it’s nice to see that some people are still interested in board games.
My only suggestion is that perhaps the candle playing pieces should be 3-D and stand up to make them easier to move. (Maybe even make each one a color coded LED light.)
Board games should never disappear, but many need to be digitalized and playable on things the Steamdeck and Switch.
This is fantastic.
This game is a staple for halloween parties for me
Wow, sound like a adventure for all the family
This game should be in the hunger games in teams of 4
I love playing this game with my dad, he’s crazy about it. Glad it’s getting more recognition
Been trying to find this game, anywhere i can get thats cheaper than amazon? Im from southeast asia
I do not, you would have to check your local gamestores or message the developers and see if they could cut you a deal!
I would check at your Barnes and nobles, I got mines for $46
Yo pls make an app or online game based on this. So many people would play it.
I no no wanna :’(
Too bad you're playing it tommorow whether you like it or not
This sounds awesome!
Honestly, sounds pretty cool.
Literally the start of "Surviving The Game as a Barbarian" but with lights
Bro this is so cool, I'm actually excited for some reason and I wished that this has an animation or movie
This concept could make interesting game/story ideas.
My friends have played this 3 times- still haven’t won the game but the vibes are immaculate
I played this one with my friends. It was pretty fun and intense! It even has difficulty settings
😮
I always feel dumb when I'm hearing any board game explained.
If someone makes this a video game (if it's not one already), I would DEFINITELY play it!
There’s a game called the darkest dungeon that has similar mechanics and revolves around light
@@Emily12679 Nice
So... the choice of music really sells this game. Good job. I want this now
Yooo this sh*ts lit, literally and figuratively
I played it once, it's lovely.
Love that concept so much
Even I am a kid I would love this in my bday for now ❤❤❤😂😂
Looks amazing.
Daaaamn, this looks cool!
Nice job summing up the game.
Brooo I need to play this when Halloween comes back around
I’ve played it a couple times. It’s super fun!
Yeah, I've had this nightmare before. Multiple times
Honestly, sounds pretty fun!
I've only seen a handful of your videos thus far, and I'd like to try all of these for my little group. These I haven't seen covered by any other channel. Good stuff.
This is one game that my family and I love to play. This is amazing!
Thx for the D&D idea!!! 😊
Dude this seems like an actual amazing game I’d for sure play it
Looks fun! I like the artwork too.
that sounds awesome
This sounds really cool.
I love it! 😀😃
It brings back so many memories seeing board games. But this is really cool
I love it!
I want this. I would play the shit out of this
Genuinely looks awesome for a board game
I like the randomness element of the game, it gives the players some choices when playing the game. PVE games like forbidden desert and pandemic can be played by one player simply because there is often a best choice to make.
this looks freaking cool
This sounds great
Worlds brigthest flashlight: 🗿
Not afraid of the Dark: 🗿
The Sun: 🗿
Electricity: 🗿
NIGHT LIGHTS: 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
this sounds like it would give my lil cousins nightmares.........i'll take 7
I'ma buy every Game you make a video. You're videos are great!! Biggest fan ❤❤
Can confirm this game is fucking awesome and thank you for recommending it to us!