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Meet the vampire hunter that’s coming for you in Darkest Dungeon’s DLC

Red Hook Studios announced back in October that Darkest Dungeon, its dungeon crawler about the psychological stresses of adventuring, would be getting DLC in early 2017 called “The Crimson Court.” Today, we’re able to bring you the first reveal of that DLC with the introduction of a new character called The Fanatic. As was teased previously with the Crimson Court poster and the tagline “The Blood! I must have the Blood!,” the DLC carries a Vampire or Parasite theme. The obvious addition to Darkest Dungeon, then, would be a Van Helsing-type vampire hunter that you could add to your party…

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Darkest Dungeon knows your weak point

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Darkest Dungeon (PC, Mac) RED HOOK STUDIOS We’re all pretty fragile, aren’t we? Never mind being mauled by fang and claw, merely being in the dark for a short time can deteriorate our defensive capacity. We grow paranoid and mad. Authors have long known this and picked at it with their words. Lewis Carroll used the language of nonsense to invent an unknowable monster, the Jabberwocky. The unknown is scary to us. And it’s this that H.P. Lovecraft so brilliantly exploited with his vast, unimaginable…

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Darkest Dungeon explores the psychological horror of the dungeon crawl

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Meet the vampire hunter that’s coming for you in Darkest Dungeon’s DLC

Darkest Dungeon knows your weak point

Darkest Dungeon explores the psychological horror of the dungeon crawl