Your email: you submitted this review: December 2015Ĭreative Director/ Lead Designer: Chris Bourassa/Tyler Sigmanĭarkest Dungeon is a gothic roguelike role-playing game where you play as a descendent of a noble family, determined to cleanse your inherited estate of the evil that infests it. Your school: DigiPen Institute of Technology Scroll past the poster to get to the actual essay! I got selected as a Platinum Winner of GDC’s Game Narrative Review contest! There are only 3 Platinum winners (and a lot of submissions), but I’m one of them! Below is the narrative review I did of Darkest Dungeon, and how it uses game mechanics in tandem with narrative to give the player an authentic, stressful experience of the macabre and the mysterious.