After playing the game for more hours than I care to admit, the main takeaway I got was the feeling of hope. Now I am fortunate to do this all over again with its sequel Darkest Dungeon 2 as it has just been released into early access on the Epic Games store. The highs, the lows, the heart attacks, and corpses. I watched, and played, every step of the development process. ![]() This was my experience with Darkest Dungeonback when it first came to early access in 2015. We, as players, get to see a game blossom and grow into its final form, like a butterfly with a two-frame jab and a health bar. That makes early access feel more intimate. ![]() Imagine, though, if the audience could look at the dailies on a movie shoot, or listen to the bass line of a new EP. Playing a game that’s still incomplete and giving the developers feedback makes sense it’s almost the purest form of beta testing. ![]() Early access is an oddly unique phenomenon that really only works in the world of video games.
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