Darkest Dungeon 2’s free strategy game Kingdoms update is coming in three parts, with the first due in 2024 | Gaming

Darkest Dungeon 2‘s Kingdoms mode – a free turn-based boardgame reimagining of the hellish roguelike roadtrip RPG – will release in three modules, Red Hook have announced. The first of this fearful trio, Hunger Of The Beast Clan, is down to launch in Q4 2024, which translates to sometime during the period 1st October to 31st December.

It’ll accompany a new paid Darkest Dungeon 2 DLC, Inhuman Bondage, which introduces a new region, a new hero with “…unique” mechanics and a fresh faction of seemingly excrement-themed fiends to slaughter.

In case you missed it, I spoke to Red Hook about the Kingdoms update at GDC this year. It’s both a “remix album” of ideas from each Darkest Dungeon game and a top-down strategy spin-off where you shuffle wagonloads of heroes around…