darkest dungeon can you fight bosses again

New enough to be interesting, but not so desperate to carve out an identity for themselves that they’re unwilling to ever rely on classic tropes when they’re appropriate. It’s got a bunch of classes and monsters that are similar enough to standard fantasy fare that I don’t feel like I’m being left adrift in a sea of nonsense proper nouns and made-up jargon (offenders in this category often commit the double sin of leaving me adrift in this sea, and then when I get my bearings it turns out the setting is actually standard fantasy fare anyway, they just renamed all the elves and dwarves and dragons), but moved firmly in a lower-magic and more early 16th century millieu where gunpowder weapons and heavy cavalry exist alongside one another.

My first thought is that if someone tried to design a game specifically for me, Darkest Dungeon is what they might come up with. It’s got a dark and oppressive mood, but that darkness can be pushed back, one bloody sacrifice at a time.

Darkest Dungeon was released over half a year ago and I’ve been playing it off-and-on ever since I got it in the Steam summer sale several months ago, but I don’t have any D&D sessions to write about until this afternoon (and the rest of the weekend), so I’m going to give my thoughts on the game now.

Darkest dungeon can you fight bosses again