So the studio decided to “do and say something somewhat different - but related - to the first game.” Red Hook wasn’t creatively interested in making a sequel that would be just bigger and better compared to the original.“There is an expectation gap where some people can’t view the game on its own, but rather just as ‘what parts of DD1 it isn’t.'” “With DD2, we think a significant part of the review scores represent the cost of having made something different,” Sigman said.

This might seem like not a great result, given that the first game sits at 91% positive reviews, but Red Hook Studios were ready that not everyone will accept the sequel.

Darkest Dungeon II currently has a “Mostly Positive” rating on Steam, with 75% of all reviews being positive.

According to the data shared by Sigman, the game launched on Steam at 600,000 wishlists and 35,000 followers.

This is above the similar stats for the first game.

60% of users have played it for more than 10 hours. Users spend 23.5 hours in Darkest Dungeon II on average, and the median playtime is 14.5 hours.Other countries in the top 10 include Germany, France, South Korea, Canada, the UK, Russia, Australia, and Taiwan. The US (30%) and China (18%) account for nearly half of ‌total sales on Steam.So this brings Darkest Dungeon II’s ‌lifetime sales to over 600,000 units.For comparison, roughly the same number of copies were sold during the 18-month Early Access period on the Epic Games Store.

Darkest Dungeon II launched on Steam on May 8 and sold over 300,000 units on the platform in its first month.Updated sales figures come from Red Hook Studios co-founder and game design director Tyler Sigman, who shared the data for Simon Carless’ GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

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