After beating the final dungeon I had the impression 'meh, it wasn’t too hard as I imagine' and 'meh, overrated Stygian', so you will see changing in your attitude toward the game. I beat NG + in 50 weeks - very fast (in normal mode I was used to grind for about 80-90 weeks) - with 1 (3) deaths in the account. A noticeable growth of levels difficulty can be felt in certain opponents especially in the 3rd level of the dungeon – but I will explain that later. After surviving 5-10 dungeons, I become calm and get used to gameplay. If you have already decided on Stygian then play it normally, more careful and more defensively and do not think about time / death limits, because in this way the game will be too stressful to go on.

This is a completely wrong and depressing approach. I was afraid of losing and wasting several dozen hours into the game and that I will have to repeat it all over again with painful and stressful grind. The most important is your attitude towards the game! I was preparing very long time to go to NG + because my attitude was negative. If you cross that borderline, your safe gonna be automatically deleted and you have to start all over again. What is the most annoying while playing Stygian is time limit - 86 weeks and the heroes’ death limit - 12 (in practice 10, because of 2 obligatory deaths in final fight). Critical hits happen even from a minor enemies and the stresses rate is brutal such Bone Courtier hits 20 stress at once, to 35 in case of criticism. Enemies have about 20-30% more life and deals 20-30% more damage. NG + mode is basically playing from scratch into a higher level of difficulty. (But I prefer to call him the oldschool NG + habits of dark souls : )

To my surprise, there are no guides on the NG + game (Polish or English versions), so I decided to focus on the subject.įor those who may not know, the Stygian mode is available after beating the game - after last update hit the ground(March 2017) I just finished the easy mode aka Radiant / Light, hard mode / hardcore / stygian has been unlocked. After at most 280 hours spent in the Darkest Dungeon I believe that have some knowledge about this brilliant game.

Darkest dungeon tips for stygian mode?