Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition (2024) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition

The Oblivion Edition contains the main game and The Binding Blade DLC. The DLC introduced two new heroes, a special questline, wandering boss, and more.

15 July 2024

What Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition is

Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition is an adventure game developed by Red Hook Studios and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The world has fallen to ruin. A scholar's reckless experiments with an eldritch force called the Iron Crown spiraled out of control, triggering a catastrophic realignment that drove most of humanity to madness and tore open the way for horrors from beyond to invade. Wracked with guilt and trapped in a cycle of repeating torment, the Scholar is visited by his old mentor, who entrusts him with the flame of Hope and a grim purpose: carry that light across the blighted land to the distant Mountain, the source of the corruption, and finally reckon with the mistakes that doomed the world. Commandeering a battered stagecoach, the Scholar gathers a band of broken, haunted heroes and sets out on a…

Description from the publisher · source

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.

What it launched against

Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition launched on 15 July 2024, within three weeks of Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Once Human and Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Once Human, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.

Darkest Dungeon II: Oblivion Edition — frequently asked questions