This game... Why there are not many games like this on steam?
This game is awesome, its original, its rogue like, its hard, the arts are beautiful, the sound is immersive.
It's 10 out of 10.
I can't tell you anymore just go and buy the game already and have fun or stress with it.

Well this scratched part above I gotta correct this.
This game isn't hard, its way above that level. Every single mechanic in this game are there to F*** the player. In hard games you have hard mechanics to challenge the players and less good mechanics to help the player finish the game. Think of Dark Souls, the Bonfire is a good thing right? Imagine Dark Souls without a checkpoint who fills all your health. Nice, now dive into Darkest Dungeon...

So you just leveled some of your characters to level 3, its gotta be a good thing right? 2bad4u. Treating diseases and stress recovering methods just got more expensive. Treating quirks are now too damn expensive you can't even think about it. Well at least they are stronger right? I gotta say this, NO. Your characters just got more stress resistance in lower levels quest. Oooops this is a good mechanic! I found it. NO! Your lv 3 characters can only enter lv 3 or above quests. You gotta be kidding. The only good part of leveling is that you unlock more levels of weapons and armors in blacksmith and unlock more levels of skills in the guild, IF you are able to invest harder in one character, and in this game a single critical hit with a bleeding effect can kill anyone.

The Critical Hits... Who doesn't love them? In normal games they are your luck helping you defeat a strong boss. In Darkest Dungeon they are your worst nightmare. The enemy has the same chance of critting in you that you have to critting them, well, it depends of the character. But when you have someone in the party with the biggest stress you can sure hope it will get a critical strike from the enemy and things gonna be worse. When you crit you recover like 6 stress points and maybe the characters around you recover this too but when you take a critical strike from the enemy your character gets something about 11 stress points and the people around can get that too. But you can land a critical heal, which heals more and also recover stress.

Just like This War of Mine did, Darkest Dungeon changed my mind about dungeon games. You are familiar with one hero killing 1000 enemys, burning villages, killing dragons alone... They are just fairy tails. In Darkest Dungeon every battle is hard, since the tutorial. You learn to respect and treat every enemy as an enemy, not some loot bags. The encounters can be a full team with a tank, one melee damage dealer, one mage with stress spells and a shaman with heals and buffing skills. The tank can guard the others meanwhile buffing his own defense, the damage dealer can bleed and hit hard your entire team, the mage will do stress damage to the entire team and the shaman will heal the tank meanwhile buffing the damage dealer.

You have to buy food and torches in the beginning of each quest, so you will learn how to spend money properly. I had to dispense some good characters because they went insane and I could not afford 2 weeks of treatment for them. You will have to make tough decisions, just like TWoM.

The funny part of the game is that you can make the game harder playing with less level of lights from torchs expecting to have better loots. Thank you but no.

I gotta say, try this game. You never played anything like this before. If you are a casual gamer see some videos on youtube and stay out of this but if you are hardcore... You just found where to spend the rest of your year.