Darkest Dungeon II is coming to Steam next February, as explained in new roadmap
Following its lengthy Early Access stay on the Epic Games Store, Darkest Dungeon II finally has a release window for its full release. You can expect Darkest Dungeon II‘s full release on Steam and the EGS in February 2023. In a recent community update, developer Red Hook Studios also laid out a Darkest Dungeon II roadmap ahead of its launch.
Red Hook Studios states: “This revised roadmap favours more frequent updates, and is in service of reaching a complete 1.0 in February 2023 on EGS and Steam. Console releases will follow.” This is not all the community update entails, which is very exciting for many fans who have not heard anything since the last update for the game, “The Shroud of the Deep.”
In the update, Red Hook states that the current XP system is quite minimal and lacks enough meaningful choices. This is definitely something players have experienced in the Early Access gameplay to this point. Your heroes cannot gain experience or level up. Instead, characters gain “Mastery Points,” a shared resource you spend in between dungeon runs. This is going to be addressed in Darkest Dungeon II 1.0. Red Hook Studios is going to overhaul the experience system to be more like the original game. This means the sequel will offer more decisions that grant or take away experience, as well as different bonuses for each character, which is closer to the original system.
As well as overhauling the experience system, the studio is going to change the way relationships work in Darkest Dungeon II. This feature is the equivalent of afflictions in the original. Relationships impact stats and certain aspects of your run based on how your characters interact. As it currently stands, a player can easily tell when a relationship is
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