History YMMV / DarkestDungeon

** Healing outside of battle is very limited, healing abilities are either reliable or powerful (not both), and [[AllDeathsFinal any character who dies is lost forever]] outside of a rare town event. Trying to squeeze more healing and stress relief in-battle is penalized by "stalling" skills quickly causing enemy reinforcements after a few turns

* PortingDisaster: The [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita PS Vita]] version of the game has some serious control issues relating to adapting a PC game for a handheld system like this. In addition to this, the UI hasn't had many changes from the PC release, which makes for a tough time reading all of the fine print on character and menu screens. Has since been fixed, however.

** "Sentimental relics from our forefathers" requires finding all fourteen of the Ancestor's trinkets. While the majority of them are fairly difficult to acquire, usually being rewards from long Champion-level missions, and in the Color of Madness DLC, an Endless Harvest past round 100, the ''real'' problem is that five[[note]]the Ancestor's Tentacle Idol, Scroll, Map, Candle, and Bottle[[/note]] out of those fourteen trinkets exclusively drop from [[ThatOneBoss the Shambler]], a boss who's capable of mowing down even well-rested and heavily-buffed parties. Killing a single Shambler is a hell of a feat on its own, and they will only drop one trinket out of that aforementioned five that you don't have, so you're expected to hunt down and kill ''four more''[[note]]three if you kill the Shuffling Horror beforehand, due to it sharing the same loot pool as the Shambler and being the first Darkest Dungeon quest's boss[[/note]] in order to secure the remainder of the Ancestor's trinkets. Your only saving grace is that the Shambler's trinket drops are not tied to quest difficulty, so you thankfully have the option of going after Shamblers exclusively in Apprentice-level quests.

** The description for "Murder of Crows" involves killing the Shrieker, which is a daunting task given its absurdly high Dodge stat and limited time to fight it. However, the game will still award the achievement if you [[HoldTheLine survived until the Shrieker fled]].

** "Sentimental relics from our forefathers" requires finding all fourteen of the Ancestor's trinkets. There are quite a few of them, and they're difficult to acquire, usually being rare rewards from Champion-level missions. Where this becomes a serious problem is that five[[note]]the Ancestor's Tentacle Idol, Scroll, Map, Candle, and Bottle[[/note]] out of those fourteen trinkets exclusively drop from [[ThatOneBoss the Shambler]], a boss who's able to mow down even a ''well-rested'' and heavily-buffed party, and only drops one out of five of those that you don't have, so you have to hunt this thing down at least ''five times''[[note]]four if you kill the Shuffling Horror beforehand, due to it sharing the same loot pool as the Shambler and needing to be killed to complete the first Darkest Dungeon quest[[/note]] if you want to get ahold of the remainder of the Ancestor's trinkets. Your only saving grace is that the Shambler's trinket drops are not tied to quest difficulty, so you thankfully have the choice of going after the Shambler exclusively in Apprentice-level quests.

** "Sentimental relics from our forefathers" requires finding all the Ancestor's trinkets. There are quite a few of them, and they're difficult to acquire, usually being rare rewards from Champion-level missions.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Expect each update to bring another VocalMinority portion of the fanbase to complain about the game, usually about it adding yet another RNG factor into the game.

*** Why does the crusader leave his family? Is it because he realizes he has changed too much ever to be a family man again? Or perhaps he is so far gone that he either no longer cares for them or even recognizes them.

*** At the end of the Antiquarian’s comic, it isn't shown whether the Antiquarian chooses to save the captive woman or not. Is she an AntiHero who frees the woman and lets her go, or an OpportunisticBastard who sacrificed her after killing her own master? One of her unique Crimson Court trinkets implies the latter. However, WordOfGod, by stating that the master's essence is in the censer, implies the former, since in that instance she wouldn't have ''needed'' to kill her, as the censer had already been given a sacrafice.

** The Siren, The Drowned Crew, and The Necromancer [[WasOnceAMan were all once people]] [[EtTuBrute that admired or at least trusted The Ancestor]] before he stabbed them in the back for his own purposes. When you read their backstories, it can be easy to pity them.

** The limited inventory space, while adding an element of resource management to the game, also means the player has to make the constantly irritating decision of whether to keep their supplies or discard them to get treasure. This is especially problematic in medium-length or longer quests in which the player must interact with items, resulting in the player having one or more logs for campfires and three quest items, even before purchasing essentials. As the narrator sometimes notes when you pick up treasure, "Packs, laden by loot, are often short on supplies."

* ThatOneDisadvantage: Of all the negative quirks, Kleptomania and Curious are ones that players learn to avoid or remove on sight. Kleptomania imposes a chance of the hero stealing loot that you would have gained, while Curious can cause a hero to interact with ''any'' curio without using a supply item that guarantees their safety, denying potential upsides and exposing them to avoidable harm.

** The Collector is a random encounter boss that has surprisingly little lore going for it. Aside from a [[BodyOfBodies fascination with his design]], he has an infamous reputation of showing up randomly in any run for unprepared parties thanks to his particularly rough FlunkyBoss nature. As such there's a fair amount of fanart and memes regarding him. [[LegacyBossBattle He even proved popular enough to be the only boss enemy from the first game to make it into the]] [[VideoGame/DarkestDungeonII Sequel]].