Twitch broadcaster turns single-player Darkest Dungeon into a co-op game

Why face the sanity-breaking horrors of Darkest Dungeon alone when you could use the buddy system? For over a month now, livestreamer and YouTube creator John Wolfe has been playing the role-playing game Darkest Dungeon with three other friends, effectively turning a single-player game into a multiplayer co-op. He runs it like a campaign of Dungeons & Dragons, which led to the stream’s name: “Darkest Dungeons & Dragons.”

Red Hook Studios’s Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike with grimdark flair. It raised nearly $315,000 on Kickstarter in 2014, and it left early access last year. It’s now on PC, PS4, and Vita. Normally, one player selects four characters to explore dungeons, slay eldritch horrors, and collect treasure. Each character has a sanity meter, which dips when characters take damage or the darkness deepens, or simply as the stress of adventuring mounts in the depths of what sometimes looks like Cthulhu’s lair.