Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court Review: A renewed thirst for blood

Enlarge / The Ancestor is still a total jerk in new cutscenes and narration. (credit: Red Hook)

Darkest Dungeon's first-ever DLC, The Crimson Court, is going to be a hard sell for many players. That's not just a pun on the expansion's extreme difficulty, either, although there is plenty of that here.

For those new to the game-and perhaps looking at The Crimson Court as an excuse to hop aboard the crazy train-Darkest Dungeon is a brutal turn-based dungeon crawler. In-game time passes when you send bedraggled squads into the depths of different dungeons. Managing time, resources, and a revolving door of adventurers is a delicate balance that players either learn to walk or bow out of altogether.

The Crimson Court DLC isn't self-contained, which presents the expansion's first structural hurdle. You either need to start a new campaign or use an existing save where you don't mind turning that balance inside out with new enemies, objectives, and dangers.

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