Darkest Dungeon® II — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| 2.04.85095 - Darkest Dungeon II - Hotfix | 2026-04-28 | We're released another hotfix for Darkest Dungeon II. Here's what the build includes:HELLIONRavager🔸 Toe to Toe is now a Path skill🔸 Toe to Toe+ does not ignore Winded (in fact, it never did for Ravager)🔸 Toe to Toe+ grants +4% Deathblow RES per Winded removed for 3 TurnsBerserker🔸 Toe to Toe is now a Path skill🔸 Toe to Toe+ does not ignore Winded (as above, it never did for Berserker)🔸 Toe to Toe+ grants +3% CRIT per Winded removed for 3 TurnsDev Note: Due to a system limitation that lead to a conflict with the Ravager and Berserker Paths' mechanics for ignoring Winded, the "Ignore Winded" component of Wanderer Toe to Toe+ is unable to |
| New Grave Robber Plushie Available Now | 2026-04-22 | "Avarice slips unseen into the catacombs of the mind."Our Grave Robber Plush is available for pre-order on Makeship now: https://www.makeship.com/products/grave-robber-plushieThis exclusive Darkest Dungeon merch is only available for a limited time! You have exactly 28 days to place your order. If the Makeship campaign is fully funded by May 21 at 10am PT, this plushie is guaranteed to go into production. You can read more about how Makeship works here! |
| Week 4 - Mod Showcase | 2026-04-20 | Welcome to Week 4 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new pets for Darkest Dungeon II, and a hero for Darkest Dungeon. If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7 You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase SubmissionDARKEST DUNGEON II Minibosses as Pets!! - aubrey_light Get 3 miniboss inspired playable pets.Adds Collect |
| Darkest Dungeon II - 2.04.84350 - Hotfix | 2026-04-06 | GAMEPLAY🔸 Increased Wanderer heroes candle bonus from 1 > 2🔸 Increased Academic's Honorarium candle bonus from 10 > 15🔸 Increased region completion candle bonus from 8, 20, 36, to 12, 24, 36🔸 Increased Biome Bosses Cleared candle bonus from 4, 10, 20 to 8, 16, 24🔸 Increased Faced End Boss candle bonus from 6 to 10🔸 Reduced Character Unlocked Candle cost from 8 to 5 🔸 Removed Candle Penalty from all Radiant FlamesFIXES🔸 Fixed Abomination's Rage+ tooltip to correctly reflect the amount of damage given🔸 Fixed persisting heroes with no memories equipped reverting to Wanderer without its candle bonus when leaving them behind at the crossr |
| Week 3 - Mod Showcase | 2026-04-06 | Welcome to Week 3 of the Darkest Dungeon Mod Showcase! This week’s showcase features new barks for Darkest Dungeon II, and a boss mod for Darkest Dungeon. If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcase Submission DARKEST DUNGEON IIBook of Creative Insults Barks - TranquilAdds barks to the Taunt proc from Book of |
| Week 2: Mod Showcase | 2026-03-23 | The Mod Showcase is back! The Mod Showcase was previously a weekly series that ran from 2020-2021, and highlighted 2 Darkest Dungeon mods per week. We're bringing that format back, and plan to showcase a mod from Darkest Dungeon, and Darkest Dungeon II every 2 weeks. If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showcas |
| 2.04.83892 - Darkest Dungeon II - Hotfix | 2026-03-18 | We've just moved our previous coming_in_hot build to retail. We also realized there were a couple changes in the last build that we didn't mention, so I'm posting those notes here now! HEROES Man-at-Arms 🔸Fixed an issue with Bolster and Bolster+ target playing idle animation during zoom-in if they did not have sufficient stress to trigger the stress heal effect Duelist 🔸Fixed an issue with Intrépide Path's Aggressive Stance debuff neither displaying nor behaving correctly Misc Fixes 🔸Fixed an issue with some Death's Head buffs showing on the Conditions tab instead of as direct buffs on the Hero 🔸Fixed a crash that would occur when trigger |
| 2.04.83880 - Darkest Dungeon II - coming_in_hot | 2026-03-16 | Hello everyone.We've just pushed a new build with a couple fixes. If you play with mods specifically, it would be great if you could switch to the coming_in_hot branch to test this out.🔸 Fixed an issue where Hero Mods were disappearing on load unless they were in the last slot in the mod list🔸 Fixed a crash that would occur when triggering maximum loathing many, many times in the same play session |
| Week 1: Mod Showcase | 2026-03-09 | The Mod Showcase is back! The Mod Showcase was previously a weekly series that ran from 2020-2021, and highlighted 2 Darkest Dungeon mods per week. We're bringing that format back, and plan to showcase a mod from Darkest Dungeon, and Darkest Dungeon II every 2 weeks. If you’re a mod maker, and would like to see your work featured, or if you know of an underrated mod you think we should showcase, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rTpUoFNPv9xmDDax7 You can submit up to 3 mods for each game. If you are unable to access Google, then please email your suggestions to us at feedback@redhookgames.com with the subject line: Mod Showca |
| Get 69% off Darkest Dungeon II during the Steam Winter Sale! | 2025-12-18 | The Steam Winter Sale is on now! Get 69% off Darkest Dungeon II - our lowest price yet! All our DLC is also on sale! You can score the following deals:Darkest Dungeon II: The Binding Blade - 25% offDarkest Dungeon II: Inhuman Bondage - 25% offDarkest Dungeon II: Infernal Supporter Pack - 25% offThe Steam Winter Sale ends January 5, so take advantage while you can! |
| Nominate Darkest Dungeon II for Labor of Love! | 2025-11-24 | We would be honoured if you nominated Darkest Dungeon II for the Labor of Love Award for the upcoming Steam Awards. Darkest Dungeon II had an incredibly busy year, with lots of new content and improvements added since January. We’ve put together this handy graphic that showcases everything we’ve added to the game this year.Want the details on all these releases? Let’s take a look back at 2025!We kicked 2025 off by releasing Kingdoms - a FREE standalone strategic game mode. Featuring a completely reimagined game structure, Kingdoms is a parallel game experience to the original Confessions game mode where players are tasked with defending their |
| 2.04.80601- Darkest Dungeon II - The Steadfast Steward's Update: Part 2 | 2025-10-29 | The Steadfast Steward’s Update Part 2The second part of our Steadfast Steward update is here! We wanted to thank everyone who took the time to test our beta builds this month. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping this release. Today's update focuses on reworking our two remaining heroes - Hellion and Leper. With this release, all of our heroes have been updated to the path system introduced in the 1.0 release of the game. We also added some new Dam options, for players looking to modify their expeditions. Finally, this update also includes a handful of updates to various heroes and enemies in an effort to address a number of odds an |
| 2.04.80494 - Steadfast Steward’s Update 2 - coming_in_hot | 2025-10-24 | Before you begin testing, we recommend making a backup of your save file before switching branches! Save files are found here: C://Users/Username/AppData/LocalLow/RedHook/Darkest Dungeon II/ How to access the coming_in_hot public beta branch on Steam: Right click on Darkest Dungeon II in your Steam libraryClick PropertiesClick BetasChoose ‘Coming_in_hot - experimental builds’ from the Beta Participation dropdown menu. How to send us feedback The best way to do this is by joining the Darkest Dungeon Discord. We have a specific section dedicated to the Steadfast Steward’s update with different channels for each hero rework You can also email yo |
| 2.04.80416 - Steadfast Steward's Update 2 - coming_in_hot | 2025-10-23 | Today’s update addresses the community feedback we received over the past few weeks, with the majority of our changes focused on the Hellion’s Carcass and Berserker paths. This build will contain what we intend to be the final retail versions of both Leper and Hellion reworks, with the target of release next week, after some final testing by you! We also intend to deploy another minor patch tomorrow with odds and ends that have surfaced in the feedback from both Steadfast Steward’s Updates.Before you begin testing, we recommend making a backup of your save file before switching branches! Save files are found here: C://Users/Username/AppData/L |
| Pre-order Highwayman and Crusader Tees! | 2025-10-22 | New Darkest Dungeon merch is available for pre-order now in The Yetee Store. New additions include Highwayman and Crusader t-shirts, a Deathblow beanie, a Curse of the Court poster and pet stickers! If you haven't stopped by The Yetee's Darkest Dungeon store, be sure to swing by. We have a number of Darkest Dungeon t-shirts, pins, and even a Flagellant body pillow for sale. Follow the link to see everything currently on offer: www.theyetee.com/darkestdungeon |
| 2.04.80241 - Steadfast Steward's Update 2 - coming_in_hot | 2025-10-15 | Fixed narration not playing when arriving at faction combat routes in the Sprawl, Sluice, Tangle, Shroud, and FoetorUpdated Regen token iconFixed Death appearing in Kingdoms without Flagellant in the party when the Dam option is enabled. Dam options are meant to affect Confession mode onlyEmpty Stein: Replaced Target Ally: Strength (95%) or Daze (5%) with When Stress Healed: +1% CRIT (1 Battle) Dev Note: The previous buff was confusing since it didn't interact with Raucous Revelry's ally effects, so it was changed to a more universal buffUpdated Korean localizationFixed scroll wheel sensitivity and gamepad input issues introduced by our Unity |
| 2.04.80209 - Steadfast Steward's Update 2- coming_in_hot | 2025-10-14 | HEROESHellionRavagerFixed an issue with Toe to Toe not correctly converting Winded into TauntLeperMonarchFixed an issue with Purge+ having extraneous information in the tool tipFixed an issue with Ruin Has Come+ token inflicting DMG instead of stressFixed missing Mastery icon on Ruin Has Come+ tokenMONSTERSCultistsFixed an issue with Cultist Altar not correctly granting Worship in certain Confessions when using "Altar of X" skillsFixed an issue where it could be possible for the Cultist Altar to use Altar of Denial or Altar of Resentment and not have those skills reveal in the Academic View if the first time seeing them occurs during an Exten |
| Steadfast Steward's Week 1 Survey | 2025-10-09 | Hello everyone,Our Steadfast Steward’s public beta build has been available on our coming_in_hot branch for a couple days now.We hope you’ve been enjoying the changes we’ve made to the Hellion and Leper! We would like everyone who has tested the build to take out the time to fill in this quick exit survey. This survey contains 10 questions, and should only take you a few minutes.This survey covers the Steadfast Steward's build number 2.04.80166 that was released on October 7. We will keep it open until October 13, 10am PT.Please only fill in the survey if you have tested the current coming_in_hot build!Fill it in here.If you haven’t started t |
| 2.04.80166 - Steadfast Steward's Update 2 - Coming_in_hot | 2025-10-07 | The second part of our Steadfast Steward’s update is here! This build is now testable on our public beta channels. Please note that this build is focused on completing the remaining work from this summer’s Steadfast Steward’s update and thus will not be as expansive. Specifically, this update is focused on the following areas:Finishing the 2 remaining hero reworks - Hellion and LeperAdding 2 more options to The DamMinor fixes and improvements Due to the smaller scope, we expect to be on our public beta branches for only a couple weeks, while we ingest community feedback and iterate. This first build contains all the scheduled work for this up |
| Steadfast Steward’s Update Part Two - Participation Details | 2025-10-03 | Our final hero reworks are nearly here! Since the release of the third Kingdoms module, Curse of the Court, our team has been focused on completing the remaining work from this summer’s Steadfast Steward’s update. We’re happy to announce that a new update is coming to our public beta branches next week.This public beta period will be focused on just a few changes, and should conclude by the end of the month. Read on for more details on what to expect, and how you can participate. What will this update contain:The second part of our Steadfast Steward update will not be as expansive as the one we had in the summer, and will focus on following a |