Darkest Dungeon is a game I played on PC for almost 2 years. I decided before buying the DLC to Great game - obtuse control method choices.

Great game - obtuse control method choices. Despite initially readjusting to button controls after heavy PC usage, I can fully see the Switch becoming my main way to play the game with its touchscreen options undocked and fantastic battery life. Darkest Dungeon at its core is a fantastic game, and its port to Switch is nothing short of well-done. While I have not tested it in all possible configurations, it lasted 5 hours and 12 minutes with maximum brightness and Wi-Fi enabled before hitting the 1% mark, at which point I put it into sleep mode to charge it. Perhaps the highlight of Darkest Dungeon on Switch is its battery life. Text can be hard to read, and touchscreen may be harder to navigate for those with larger fingers. However, as with the Vita version, the Switch's screen suffers from a small UI. It makes playing in portable mode a lot more fun than I would have expected. I particularly like that the touchscreen can be used for all menu, combat, and navigational purposes. The touchscreen is able to be used in portable mode which, while it's not required, felt more intuitive than the button controls. My untrained eye can't perceive what FPS it's running at, but in a slow, turn-based game such as this, it doesn't particularly matter. Frame rate seems stable in both docked and undocked modes. Buttons can sometimes be a little confusing and unintuitive, but it doesn't take too long to get used to them.

As I found with the other console versions, the controls aren't nearly as fluid as they are on PC. That being said, the game is fantastic, and the port was done very well. RNG is a heavy factor in this game, and if you are not a fan of that, I wholeheartedly advise you to stay away from Darkest Dungeon.

And, yes, it will not always be entirely your fault. And yes, you will likely a lose a lot of units. But how does Darkest Dungeon run on the Switch, and how does it compare to the other consoles? Before heading any further, it is worth a warning to those that have never played: Yes, the game can be difficult. This was, of course, known with its releases on PC and other consoles. The game itself is fun, with extremely high replayability due to the randomized nature of the game. This Darkest Dungeon is a very good game.

Darkest dungeon on switch review