Red Hook Studios teased back in October the impending arrival of the second DLC for Darkest Dungeon II in “Inhuman Bondage”, with the developer announcing today that the DLC will be coming to PC on January 27th, 2025. Consoles will be receiving the DLC at a later date.
Inhuman Bondage will be accompanied by the new free game mode for Darkest Dungeon II in Kingdoms, along with its first of three adventure modules “Hunger of the Beast Clan” on the same day.
Kingdoms is an entirely new game mode coming to Darkest Dungeon II, featuring a completely reimagined game structure. Kingdoms is a parallel game experience to the Confessions game mode, with players being tasked with defending the realm from incursions by all-new enemy-factions.
“At Red Hook we love going against the grain,” says Chris Bourassa, Red Hook Studios Creative Director. “When asking ourselves how best to expand Darkest Dungeon II, we were nonplussed at the conventional wisdom of simply packing in more content. Instead, we pushed ourselves to reimagine the very structure of DDII, and from that thought experiment was born an entirely new game mode: Kingdoms.
Kingdoms is a parallel experience to the main DDII narrative campaign (“Confessions”), and remixes almost every system in the game. Players will journey from Inn to Inn across a persistent Kingdom map, racing to complete a quest line before time runs out. They will defend territory against a new bestial threat, complete contracts, upgrade and protect Inns – all the while switching up their parties to rest their most beleaguered heroes.”
Darkest Dungeon II is available now on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch.
