How to play Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition on Mac

Game summary

Darkest Dungeon®: Crimson Edition contains Darkest Dungeon plus Darkest Dungeon®: The Crimson Court DLC. Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system. * The Affliction System – battle not only monsters, but stress! Contend with paranoia, masochism, fear, irrationality, and a host of gameplay-meaningful quirks! * Striking hand-drawn gothic crowquill art style * Innovative turn-based combat pits you against a host of diabolical monsters * Narration system to celebrate your successes...and failures * 15 (and counting!) playable hero classes, including Plague Doctor, Hellion, and even the Leper! * Camp to heal wounds or deliver inspiring speeches. * Rest your weary, shell-shocked characters in town at the Tavern or the Abbey to keep their stress in check. * Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including character permadeath, procedural dungeons, and incredible replay Can you stem the tide of eldritch horrors erupting across your family’s ancestral estate? Descend at your peril! "THE BLOOD...I MUST HAVE THE BLOOD!" Darkest Dungeon®: The Crimson Court is the first expansion for the award-winning grim and gothic RPG by Red Hook Studios. Crimson Court is a parallel campaign experienced alongside the main Darkest Dungeon content that will provide you with new challenges and variation at every difficulty level. The narrative grounding sheds some light on the Ancestor’s early days, and will be presented in the same style of cut-scenes you’ve seen elsewhere in the game. * A new hero class: The Flagellant! * A new dungeon region: The Courtyard * A ful
First released: Dec 2017

Play Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Darkest Dungeon: Crimson Edition like you would on any PC.
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