Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms
Kingdoms is a free standalone campaign game mode coming to Darkest Dungeon II. This new game mode challenges players in a desperate race against the clock to find and defeat a monstrous threat before it…
Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms is an adventure developed by Red Hook Studios, released 27 January 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms is
Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms is an adventure game developed by Red Hook Studios and released in 2025. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kingdoms is a free standalone campaign game mode coming to Darkest Dungeon II. This new game mode challenges players in a desperate race against the clock to find and defeat a monstrous threat before it overwhelms and destroys the Kingdom. Journey across the land to gather resources and battle evil incursions, all while defending a network of safe haven Inns.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 121 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 | Intel Core i5 4460, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms launched on 27 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist and Eternal Strands. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Eternal Strands.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Darkest Dungeon II: Kingdoms yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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