Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Gamivo
- Live offers
- 34 offers · 17 stores
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The official store went from €22.99 to €3.44 overnight, and that is the number doing the rounds this week. Our own price log tells a duller story. Days before any of that, the same game was already going for €1.29 at the key sellers, while the official page was still asking twenty-two euros. A fat percentage and a low price are two different things, and this game is the textbook case.
The official cut is real. It still is not the floor
Roguelike, four heroes, a stress meter and a hamlet you keep rebuilding out of the rubble. Red Hook's dungeon crawler has been discounted so often that its list price stopped meaning anything years ago. What counts is where it lands each time, and these four reference points all come out of our own history table:
| Reference point | Amount | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Official store, the day before the cut | €22.99 | The list price nobody pays |
| Official store, sale live | € | The discount in the headlines |
| Cheapest offer on our list right now | € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) at Gamivo | Live, with the seller's coupon already taken off |
| Lowest we have logged in twelve months | €1.29 | One seller's own price earlier this month, before coupons. It held for four days |
Read rows two and three together and the discount deflates. The official sale never went under the key sellers. It caught up with them, and it is still about a euro above where they had already been.
What the sellers were doing while the sale was being announced
Our history table keeps one entry per store per day, so the floor can be read off instead of guessed at. Over the last fortnight it sat at €1.29 for four days straight, climbed to €1.99, then to €2.09, and there it has stayed. Nothing dramatic behind that: one seller ran out of cheap stock and the next one up took over.
A deal post written off a press release cannot tell you that. It only ever sees one shop, on one day.
Is the bundle the cheap way into the expansions?
This is where people lose money on this particular game. There is an Ancestral Edition that puts the base game and all three expansions into a single code, and it is sold as the tidy option. Tidy it is. Cheap it is not, as long as the pieces are cut this hard on their own:
| What you buy | Cheapest offer live |
|---|---|
| Base game | € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) |
| The Crimson Court | € (with coupon Gocdkeys10) |
| The Shieldbreaker | € (with coupon GOCDKEYS10) |
| The Color of Madness | € (with coupon SEPGOC10) |
| Ancestral Edition, everything in one code | € (with coupon GCDKGamivo) |
Add up the first four and put the total next to the last one. While the gap stays where it is, four separate codes beat the single one, and you keep the option of stopping after the base game if the stress meter turns out not to be your thing. The bundle only wins the day the expansions come off sale and the edition does not.
Every live offer, coupons already applied
Here is the full list. Each amount already has that seller's coupon taken off it, so what you read is what the checkout asks for, not a headline that grows on the payment screen:
Before you pick one, look at the label. A plain code with a region on it is an ordinary purchase: you redeem it on your account and the game is yours. An account offer is something else. You sign into somebody else's library, and the licence never becomes yours. On a game this cheap those two are usually a few cents apart, which makes the second one a bad trade any way you cut it. If you would rather just get it done, you can buy Darkest Dungeon key from the cheapest seller on that list.
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Region, launcher and saves
Does a regional code work outside its region?
Codes marked Global redeem anywhere. Ones carrying a specific region get checked against your account's country at redemption, and a mismatch is simply refused. On a two or three euro purchase, a few cents more for a Global code is cheap insurance.
Do the expansions need the base game?
Yes, all three. They install on top of it, they will not launch on their own, and a code for any of them is worth nothing without the game underneath.
Is it well enough reviewed to justify even three euros?
Our own rating snapshot puts it at 9 out of 10 across more than fifty-six thousand player reviews, with a critic score of 84. For a game that costs less than a cinema ticket, there is not much to think about.
Does the sequel carry your save over?
No. The follow-up is a separate purchase with a separate progression system, and nothing transfers. Treat them as two different games that happen to share a mood.
The short answer
The discount is genuine, but it arrives late and it is not the best this game has been. If you want it, the key sellers have been under the official page for weeks, so there is no reason to pay the higher of the two. If you want the expansions as well, pick them up one at a time while they are cut separately rather than reaching for the bundle. And if you have been putting it off, holding out for something deeper than what is already there means gambling over roughly a euro.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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