Swine Wretches are horrendously deformed creatures with human skulls somehow attached to their chests. Fungal Scratchers are parasite zombies with irregularly-grown fungi for heads. The fungal artillery are piles of mushrooms that have grown into human corpses, forcing them to walk around like misshapen quadrupeds and spewing blight-filled fumes at their enemies.Many of the monsters are quite disgusting.The squealing of the swines in the Warrens takes the cake, although the roaring of the monsters in the Weald and the Cove or the hissing of the undead in the Ruins are not that comforting either.

The intensifying background noise as torchlight fades.Furthermore, the background when fighting this bastard is filled with those who have suffered a similar fate, each clearly occupied sack perfectly still. Unlike the Hag example, however, your character is shoved in a sack, adding a certain claustrophobia element, visibly struggling whilst being engulfed in searing flames, and to top it all off, audibly screaming in agony. Likewise, the Fanatic can pick one of your heroes to be burned at the stake. Watching the Hag throw one of your favourite heroes into her pot, and having to watch them being slowly cooked alive, deals heavy stress damage to the player.

As the Heir witnesses the terrors that lurk in and around the manor, perhaps they can begin to sympathize with their afflicted heroes a lot more easily. Darkest Dungeon is a Lovecraftian horror-inspired game that pulls no punches in the Nightmare Fuel department.

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