A massive Darkest Dungeon overhaul mod adds an entirely new campaign

pcgamer.com:

A sprawling Darkest Dungeon mod will release this month, with Black Reliquary(opens in new tab) set to release on March 24, 2023. The mod is a total conversion mod with the thumbs-up of the original Darkest Dungeon developers at Red Hook, and the list of changes is… really big. It's foremost a gameplay overhaul and entirely new campaign with a new setting, new characters, new narration, new music, new enemies and facts, trinkets, and new player heroes.

The story will follow a band of heroes as they delve into the Black Reliquary, a monolithic structure in a desolate desert known only as The Valley. Here's how the developers describe it: «Abandon what you think you know. The Valley does not know mercy or sympathy, and the trials ahead of you will be unlike anything you have faced before! Find yourself in your new home aboard the Flameseeker airship, and reunite with an old acquaintance from many years past, as you join forces to assault the oppressive and mysterious Black Reliquary.»

There's both a story-driven release date trailer and extended gameplay trailer for Black Reliquary, both highlighting the incredibly amount of new art and design that has gone into a free game expansion. Which, to be honest, isn't even what this is. This is some kind of free sequel that fell through a crack in reality from another dimension.

It is a lot, and has been in the works for years. It's one of those rare mods so thoroughly developed and extensive that it's getting its own Steam(opens in new tab) page rather than be consigned to a Workshop, an honor rarely accorded to mods outside of those for decade-or-more-old games like Half-Life 2.

Shout out to the dude playing the new narrator, who—at least in these trailers—really nails the