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Characters also develop quirks (both positive and negative), like addictions to material things, or a thirst for strong drink.

Stressed out characters develop afflictions, like paranoia or abusiveness or fearfulness, and stop responding to your inputs - they may not let the party healer fix them, or pass their turn when you need them to attack. The party takes on stress damage in many ways - any time the dungeon gets too dark (and you let the torches go dim), any time you run out of food or the right equipment, whenever a monster scores a critical, and many monsters do psychic damage to the characters. What drives the Lovecraft theme home are the stress and afflictions suffered by your party. The art is reminiscent of Mignola's work with Dark Horse comics, full of stark shadows. In the game, you take your squad of four stalwart warriors through dungeons filled with cultists, fish-men, undead, and horrible Lovecraftian bosses like the Inchoate Flesh, the Collector, and the Shambler (which looks a lot like a Shoggoth).

You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor…" It's a theme straight out of HP Lovecraft, about a decadent ancestor that dabbles in forbidden lore and awakens an eldritch horror deep beneath the ruined mansion. But then I watched the trailer to the game… "Ruin has come to our family. I watched him play a few minutes and didn't think it was great - it has this low tech 2-D graphics and combat techniques out of something like 4E or an MMO, full of buffs and de-buffs. My 14 year old picked up this game on Steam a couple of weeks ago, "The Darkest Dungeon".