Welcome to Week 4 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new pets for Darkest Dungeon II, and a hero for Darkest Dungeon.  

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You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at https://feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase Submission

DARKEST DUNGEON II
Minibosses as Pets!! - aubrey_light

Get 3 miniboss inspired playable pets.

Adds Collected Collector, Death's Seedling and The Crablord.

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3292867664&searchtext=Thank you to our modding community, for all your hard work and talent and thank you to our fans for your dedication and continued support! Curious to see what we featured for our Darkest Dungeon mod showcase? You can check it out here:https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/262060/view/525373714489934720

GAMEPLAY

🔸 Increased Wanderer heroes candle bonus from 1 > 2

🔸 Increased Academic's Honorarium candle bonus from 10 > 15

🔸 Increased region completion candle bonus from 8, 20, 36, to 12, 24, 36

🔸 Increased Biome Bosses Cleared candle bonus from 4, 10, 20 to 8, 16, 24

🔸 Increased Faced End Boss candle bonus from 6 to 10

🔸 Reduced Character Unlocked Candle cost from 8 to 5

🔸 Removed Candle Penalty from all Radiant Flames

FIXES

🔸 Fixed Abomination's Rage+ tooltip to correctly reflect the amount of damage given

🔸 Fixed persisting heroes with no memories equipped reverting to Wanderer without its candle bonus when leaving them behind at the crossroads

🔸 Fixed heroes being able to persist as Wanderer without its candle bonus after being recruited as a reserve hero on a successful expedition

🔸 Fixed persisting heroes recruited as reserve heroes during an expedition having their Wanderer path indicate a possible candle bonus in the UI despite it being inactive for them

Welcome to Week 3 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new barks for Darkest Dungeon II, and a boss mod for Darkest Dungeon.   

If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form:https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7

You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us athttps://feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase Submission

DARKEST DUNGEON II

Book of Creative Insults Barks - Tranquil

Adds barks to the Taunt proc from Book of Creative Insults.

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3386370329

Thank you to our modding community, for all your hard work and talent and thank you to our fans for your dedication and continued support!

Curious to see what we featured for our Darkest Dungeon mod showcase? You can check it out here: https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/262060/view/506232053082097736

The Mod Showcase is back! The Mod Showcase was previously a weekly series that ran from 2020-2021, and highlighted 2 Darkest Dungeon mods per week. We're bringing that format back, and plan to showcase a mod from Darkest Dungeon, and Darkest Dungeon II every 2 weeks. 

If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form:https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7

You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at https://feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase Submission

DARKEST DUNGEON II

Crimson Court Inspired Palettes - dearHadrian

I love the aesthetics of Crimson Court, so I decided to do a couple of very fancy, bloody palettes!

Jester and Hellion were recently added to this pack, rounding it out to 10 skins in this pack.

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369286442Thank you to our modding community, for all your hard work and talent and thank you to our fans for your dedication and continued support! 

Curious to see what we featured for our Darkest Dungeon mod showcase? You can check it out here: https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/262060/view/510734384261760528

We've just moved our previous coming_in_hot build to retail. We also realized there were a couple changes in the last build that we didn't mention, so I'm posting those notes here now!

HEROES
Man-at-Arms
🔸Fixed an issue with Bolster and Bolster+ target playing idle animation during zoom-in if they did not have sufficient stress to trigger the stress heal effect
Duelist
🔸Fixed an issue with Intrépide Path's Aggressive Stance debuff neither displaying nor behaving correctly

Misc Fixes
🔸Fixed an issue with some Death's Head buffs showing on the Conditions tab instead of as direct buffs on the Hero
🔸Fixed a crash that would occur when triggering maximum loathing many, many times in the same play session

Modding
🔸Fixed an issue in both Confessions and Kingdoms where Hero Mods were disappearing on load unless they were in the last slot in the mod list

Send us your feedback!
Last summer we released the hero creation tool for the Darkside modding project. This tool contains everything you would need to create a full Confessions hero. If you are a modder, please let us know about any issues you have with this tool. Furthermore, if you have any suggestions for the Darkside modding project in general, send them our way. You can post your feedback in our Discord (please use the Feedback channel), or shoot us an email at https://feedback@redhookgames.com

Hello everyone.

We've just pushed a new build with a couple fixes. If you play with mods specifically, it would be great if you could switch to the coming_in_hot branch to test this out.

🔸 Fixed an issue where Hero Mods were disappearing on load unless they were in the last slot in the mod list

🔸 Fixed a crash that would occur when triggering maximum loathing many, many times in the same play session

The Mod Showcase is back! The Mod Showcase was previously a weekly series that ran from 2020-2021, and highlighted 2 Darkest Dungeon mods per week. We're bringing that format back, and plan to showcase a mod from Darkest Dungeon, and Darkest Dungeon II every 2 weeks. 

If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7

You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at https://feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase Submission

Witness: Vestal Path - Lux

"I will burn it all down, in the name of the Light!"

A role that demonstrates mastery of the holy fire via slaying and protecting.

The Witness is a new Vestal path that gains many potent offensive Burn-centric tools, as well as an anti-DoT Guard, an excellent way to protect heroes vulnerable to these ailments. The Witness is at home in ranks 2 and 3, and aims to spend more time attacking than the average Vestal thanks to her powerful Burn synergies.

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3650654970Curious to see what we featured for our Darkest Dungeon mod showcase? You can check it out here: https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/news/app/262060/view/532125218178599398

Thank you to our modding community, for all your hard work and talent and thank you to our fans for your dedication and continued support!

The Steam Winter Sale is on now!

Get 69% off Darkest Dungeon II - our lowest price yet!

All our DLC is also on sale! You can score the following deals:

• Darkest Dungeon II: The Binding Blade - 25% off

• Darkest Dungeon II: Inhuman Bondage - 25% off

• Darkest Dungeon II: Infernal Supporter Pack - 25% off

The Steam Winter Sale ends January 5, so take advantage while you can!

We would be honoured if you nominated Darkest Dungeon II for the Labor of Love Award for the upcoming Steam Awards.

Darkest Dungeon II had an incredibly busy year, with lots of new content and improvements added since January.  We’ve put together this handy graphic that showcases everything we’ve added to the game this year.

Want the details on all these releases? Let’s take a look back at 2025!

We kicked 2025 off by releasing Kingdoms - a FREE standalone strategic game mode. Featuring a completely reimagined game structure, Kingdoms is a parallel game experience to the original Confessions game mode where players are tasked with defending their realm from incursions by all-new enemy-factions.

Over the course of the year, we released a total of 3 Kingdoms adventure modules, each featuring its own unique enemy faction and quest. Our first module, Hunger of the Beast Clan, released in late January. Secrets of the Coven followed in April, along with a number of community requested improvements including improved hero path comparisons, as well as updates for Kingdoms like inn storage, custom difficulty settings and more.

Finally, our third Kingdoms module, Curse of the Court, was released in August, and featured the return of the Crimson Courtiers from the original Crimson Court DLC.

Darkest Dungeon II received its second DLC, Inhuman Bondage, in January!

This DLC introduced a new mini-region, The Catacombs, and a new playable hero to Darkest Dungeon II, the fan favourite and original Kickstarter backer-assisted designed character: The Abomination. This reclusive alchemist comes with a unique battle mechanic, allowing him to transform into a fearsome monstrosity - at the risk of spiraling stress! 

Speaking of DLC, we also released the Infernal Supporter’s Pack in April, which came with unique hero palettes and weapon kits, as well as 4 stagecoach skins themed around Catacombs and Kingdoms enemy factions!

June marked the release of our long awaited Hero Origin Skins. This is the version of the Darkest Dungeon II heroes that you see in the Shrine of Reflection.

This free pack comes with the Origin hero skin for each hero in Darkest Dungeon II, including DLC Characters, and allows you to transform your heroes into their past forms as you race towards the looming mountain to face your failures!

The summer of 2025 also saw the expansion of Darkest Dungeon II modding. Our effort to bring the hero origin skins to life had the side benefit of laying the groundwork necessary to expand our modding tools, and allow for character modding! Modders are now able to create unique hero skins and weapon kits in Darkest Dungeon II. We also added the ability for players to create their own custom heroes! You can find our Hero Creation Tool in the Darkside project.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out some of the amazing mods on our workshop: https://testx-steam.c5game.com/app/1940340/workshop/

The Steadfast Steward’s Updates that were released in July and October included a wide range of improvements and community requested changes, chief among them was the completion of our hero reworks! In July we finished our reworks of the Occultist, Plague Doctor and Runaway, then returned to rework the Hellion and Leper in October. 

We took this opportunity to add more information to the Academics View by expanding it to include more helpful information while you’re in combat. For monsters it shows requirements and conditions for skill use. For heroes, we now show skill cooldowns, skill uses, and stress RES. Speed can now also be viewed on this sheet for both heroes and monsters.

July’s Steadfast Steward’s update also saw us updating a few systems in the game, such as Ordainment, Battle Advantage Modifiers and Memories, to make them more interesting and impactful on gameplay overall. We were also able to add a run modifier section to the Altar of Hope called The Dam. This allowed us to address a number of community requests we’ve received since release. Players can now add the option to retreat in Confessions, have the Mountain appear at all inns, increase the chances for battle modifiers to roll in all encounters, extend Confessions 1 and 2, plus more!

Finally, we used this update to introduce one of our most highly requested features - combat and driving speed toggles. These toggles can be found in the Options menu and will allow you to independently increase speed of driving and combat up to 1.5x.