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Game intelligence STEAM ANALYZED

Darkest Dungeon®

Red Hook Studios

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

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Overview

A quick look at the completed Steam page analysis for Darkest Dungeon®.

Steam page score93.3Communication and conversion readiness

What stands out

Key strengths and opportunities based on the saved analysis.

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Strength

The core proposition is immediately understandable

The short description identifies the genre, the hero-management role, the main threats and the psychological-stress premise.

A prospective player can quickly understand both the game format and the intended dark, challenging experience.

Strength

The stress and Affliction systems provide a concrete hook

The page names specific afflictions such as paranoia, masochism, fear and irrationality, and explains that they affect gameplay.

This gives the game a recognizable identity beyond generic turn-based combat or gothic presentation.

Strength

Gameplay copy is unusually concrete

The page describes recruiting, training, procedural dungeons, permadeath, camping, stress management and turn-based combat.

Players can form a practical understanding of what they will do rather than relying only on atmospheric marketing language.

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Steam Analysis

How well does the Steam page communicate and convert?

Great potential

89.0% analysis coverage

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The portion of the Steam page that had enough information to assess.

Clarity and positioning95.8
Differentiation100.0
Copy and information hierarchy83.3
Media readiness100.0
Discoverability and classification100.0
Product offer and release status100.0
Consistency and trust83.3
Page hygiene75.0

This is a strong, well-positioned page. It clearly communicates a gothic turn-based roguelike RPG, the player's role, the core activities and the distinctive psychological-stress systems. The main weaknesses are minor page-hygiene and scanability issues rather than fundamental clarity problems.

How this game compares
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A comparison with other Steam pages that AdsForGames has analyzed.

Steam page scores compared with the analyzed games in AdsForGames.

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Steam Page Score93.3 / 100
Dataset median80.8
Compared with the medianAbove median
Dataset percentile
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The share of analyzed Steam pages scoring at or below this game.

95.6

The current Steam Page Score for Darkest Dungeon® is 93.3/100, compared with a dataset median of 80.8 across 2,468 analyzed Steam pages.

Based on 2,468 analyzed Steam pages. Area samples may differ when a score is unavailable.

Eight areas of the Steam page

Scores use the current saved analysis. Each comparison uses that area's own sample.

Clarity and positioning

95.8 / 100

Dataset median 87.5 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 81.5 percentile

Differentiation

100.0 / 100

Dataset median 87.5 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 97.6 percentile

Copy and information hierarchy

83.3 / 100

Dataset median 75.0 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 78.1 percentile

Media readiness

100.0 / 100

Dataset median 100.0 · Around median

Based on 2,467 scores · 50.1 percentile

Discoverability and classification

100.0 / 100

Dataset median 75.0 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 97.4 percentile

Product offer and release status

100.0 / 100

Dataset median 75.0 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 86.6 percentile

Consistency and trust

83.3 / 100

Dataset median 75.0 · Above median

Based on 2,468 scores · 63.4 percentile

Page hygiene

75.0 / 100

Dataset median 75.0 · Around median

Based on 2,466 scores · 62.8 percentile

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When each saved source was last collected.

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