Red Hook Games have a very promising and tantalizing kickstarter funded game in Darkest Dungeon. Like the runaway hits Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, Darkest Dungeon not only embraces the darkness and evil side of dungeon crawling, it revels in it. “When the senses are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness, who can stand?” is the question that the game’s developers are asking you.

Instead of pulling archetypes from other video games, Darkest Dungeon lends its characters personas from iconic movies like MacReady from The Thing, Hudson from Aliens, and James from The Hurt Locker. Darkest Dungeon plays out in a 2D perspective and has you traversing dungeons and monsters and is also firmly rooted in classic RPG tropes, namely permadeath, procedural dungeons, and loads of replay.

You can view their kickstarter pitch below:

Despite only being published for a day, the game’s kickstarter campaign has already attained its funding goal, and then some. Currently sitting at roughly $105,000, it has already blown passed two of its stretch goals – the playable Houndmaster class and the wandering Brigand minibosses that if defeated, will earn you special rewards.

The game’s official list of features are below:

• The Affliction System – heroes’ personalities are paramount! Contend with paranoia, abusiveness, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks
• Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style
• Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters
• Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including meaningful permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay
• A distinctive game world featuring over a dozen unique playable character classes such as the Plague Doctor, the Highwayman, and even the Leper!
• Town meta-game – tend to your heroes wounds, both corporeal and cerebral
• Loot! Gold, jewels, heirlooms, and mystical trinkets. Not to mention upgradable armor, weapons, and consumable supplies.
• Things That Once Seen Can Never Be Unseen…

In light of the game being funded so quickly, Red Hook Games have published a new trailer that shows off even more of the psychological horrors that lay in wait.

You can view the House of Ruin trailer below:

If you want to pledge to Darkest Dungeon, you can do so on their kickstarter page.