Physical-Based: “Flagellate” is not in this category because it takes place in the Abbey.These are MUCH less expensive than the Sanitorium. There, they can Pray to a Higher Power for guidance, Meditate to cleanse the mind and soul, or Flagellate yourself as punishment for deeds done on the road. Holy-Based: your characters (if their class/afflictions allow) can visit the Abbey.Unless it’s absolutely necessary, I’d recommend waiting to use the Sanitorium until you have a good amount of gold saved up. For a character at level 0, for example, it would have cost me 5,000 gold to treat 1 affliction. Treatment: your characters can treat illnesses, diseases, and afflictions at the Sanitorium… but it is costly.Stress relief and healing comes in 3 forms: Your party members can also purchase supplies from the Caretaker, better arms and armor from the Blacksmith, and most importantly, relieve Stress and heal. In the Hamlet, you can recruit new party members at the Stage Coach, visit the fallen at the Graveyard, or train at the Guild Hall. Once you make through the Woods – the Tutorial area – you reach the Hamlet, the “safe area”. You normally control 4 characters at a time, from Vestals (“War Priestess”) to Highwaymen (“Robbers/Thieves”) to Plague Doctors (think “Affliction Warlocks” from World of Warcraft), but to start out, you only control 2.

To rid the area of its haunts – bad humans, eerie fish-men, the undead, and all kinds of monsters and evilness that I haven’t had the pleasure of running across yet – you put out the call to all: come to The Hamlet, explore the area, vanquish the evil, become rich and famous! You are the heir to a mansion that, due to some “mistakes” by one of your ancestors, is now a haunted mess of land and building.

I have only played it for about 4 hours since then but I’ve really enjoying what I’ve experienced. I ultimately bought the game for PC on Thursday. I later saw him play a few minutes of it, and it piqued my interest. Good friend Scotty – the one who hosts the Game Nights that I write about, on occassion – had mentioned a PlayStation game called “Darkest Dungeon” to me a few weeks back.

Darkest dungeon character setup