Dark Quest 2

Dark Quest 2

Brain Seal Ltd · 2018 · RPG, Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based, Dungeon Crawler

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About Dark Quest 2

✦ AI summary

Lead a party of heroes through a dice-driven dungeon crawl inspired by classic board games, making tactical turn-based decisions as you delve deeper into an evil sorcerer's castle. Create your own adventures with the map editor, brave the campaign solo or cooperatively, and manage your party's strength and sanity through crafting, upgrades, and the unpredictable Skull of Fate.

Dark Quest 2 is a turn based RPG inspired by legendary board game Hero Quest. The game features a party based system where you control a group of heroes, an isometric hand-drawn art style, dice based mechanics and much more.

Each map is designed to take you through an adventure that will test your party's strength, courage and sanity as you go deeper and deeper into the castle in search for the chambers of the evil sorcerer.

Features


  • Single-Player Campaign: Play a story driven campaign that takes you through a series of adventure on your epic quest to defeat the evil sorcerer.
  • Map Editor: Create new adventures and distribute them through steamworks
  • Multiplayer: Play together with your friends and complete the campaign cooperatively!
  • Turn Based Mechanics: Every turn each of your heroes in your party can take one single action. Play wise and carefully or fall captive in the eternal prison of the sorcerer.
  • Skull of Fate: In the darkest dungeons of the castle, when left with no hope your last and only way out will be to roll the skull of fate and reveal your twisted fate.
  • Assemble a Party: Control a group of heroes each with their own personality and strengths. Use the unique strengths of each character and work together to defeat the minions of the evil sorcerer.
  • Enter a world of fantasy and adventure: Explore twisted mazes, find hidden doors and fight bloodthirsty orcs!
  • Village: Stay with the old masters and learn new powers, craft new weapons and mix potions that improve the capabilities of your heroes.

Games/Board games that inspired us:

  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Dungeon Saga
  • Hero Quest
  • Talisman
  • Warhammer Quest

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 23, 2026
Being a huge enthusiast of board game dungeon crawlers like Talisman, HeroQuest and such I tried looking for similar games on Steam and came up with the Dark Quest series. Given it was already on sale, I decided to give Dark Quest 2 a go. It's a nice little HeroQuest clone that is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. You start out with a single hero and then on subsequent runs you recruit other characters to come with you to complete a campaign comprising of a couple dozen maps until you eventually get to the end. Each map is a small dungeon maze with rooms and corridors and everything is turn based including movement just like a board game. There aren't too many stats to worry about, nor any of the more advanced systems of modern RPGs. Everything here is kept as simple as possible, in the spirit of board games of the olden age. This is a game which evokes memories of simpler times, doesn't take hours to play and is very easy to master. The gameplay boils down to clearing a dungeon, defeating the enemies and grabbing all the loot you can find. There is a moderate difficulty to each dungeon, but you may grind them as many times as you want by replaying the same map over an…
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Recommended Mar 23, 2026
7.5 / 10 On a whim tonight I typed Heroquest into steam and it came back with these Dark Quest Games. "What the heck do we have here?" I asked aloud (and somewhat suprised I had never heard of these)... Being a huge fan of heroquest as a boy (MANY MANY moons ago) I read the users comments and decided to give Dark Quest 2 a go. It also didn't hurt that it cost me less than $5. I just played for an hour and what I experienced, I liked a lot. This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. This is a game that reminds me of simpler times, doesn't take hours to master or play through in one sitting, and brings back some nostalgic vibes of my childhood! Bravo! I am looking forward to beating this!
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Recommended Jul 11, 2026
Dark Quest 2 is the best of all the dark quest games. The others a clunky and rather dull. 2 is at least somewhat tactical and well worth the cost. I'd probably skip the rest.
Recommended May 12, 2026
Dark Quest 2 is a turn-based dungeon crawler that openly embraces the spirit of classic tabletop fantasy adventures while presenting them through a charming board game-inspired format. Developed and published by Brain Seal Ltd, the game acts as both a tribute to old-school strategy RPGs and a streamlined dungeon-crawling experience focused on tactical combat, exploration, and party management. Rather than attempting to modernize the genre with overwhelming complexity or cinematic presentation, Dark Quest 2 builds its identity around simplicity, nostalgia, and strategic encounters that feel heavily inspired by traditional pen-and-paper campaigns. The game immediately establishes its tabletop influence through its presentation. Characters move across environments that resemble handcrafted board game maps filled with miniature-style figures, dice-inspired mechanics, traps, treasure chests, and dungeon layouts that feel physically assembled rather than digitally generated. This visual direction gives the adventure a unique personality that separates it from more conventional fantasy RPGs. The entire experience feels like participating in a living tabletop campaign guided by an unseen …
Recommended May 5, 2026
A short turn-based game for the weekend. Q: Would I recommend? A: Yes. [+] 1) A little bit of Warcraft-like styling 2) Short 3) Each hero for different situation [-] 1) Short 2) Bugged Some progression-compromising bugs. Fortunately, a restart of the map helps, but you need to play it all over again... 3) Forced reruns to collect abilities in order to progress Conclusion: 7/10
Recommended Mar 27, 2026
Very nice old game for you to play when you are happy

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