Darkest Dungeon Gets First New DLC in 6 Years, The Fire's Edge
The DLC marks the first time Red Hook has backported content from the sequel to the original game, and it does so without new narration out of respect for the late Wayne June.
Key Facts
- The Fire's Edge DLC for Darkest Dungeon launches on August 19, 2026, on PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
- The DLC adds two new hero classes from Darkest Dungeon II: the Duelist and the Runaway.
- New trinket systems include conditional triggers, quest charges, and evolving trinkets.
- Three new village districts are added: Academy Duelo, Artisan Workshop, and Archaeological Base.
- The DLC contains no new narration; only existing voice lines for the ported heroes are included as a tribute to the late narrator Wayne June.
Reporting from 2 sources: Automaton, Game Spark.
Red Hook Studios announced on July 22 that a new DLC for the original Darkest Dungeon, titled The Fire's Edge, will launch on August 19. This is the first major content update for the 2016 turn-based roguelike RPG in six years, following the 2020 DLC The Butcher's Circus. The Fire's Edge introduces two new hero classes imported from the sequel Darkest Dungeon II: the Duelist, who switches between Attack and Defense stances, and the Runaway, who applies a Burn debuff for continuous damage. The DLC also adds new battle systems, trinkets with conditional triggers and quest charges, and three new village districts: Academy Duelo, Artisan Workshop, and Archaeological Base. Notably, the DLC does not include new voice-over narration; the game's narrator, Wayne June, passed away in January 2025. The developer stated that only narration for the ported heroes from Darkest Dungeon II is included as a tribute. The DLC will be available on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and Microsoft Store, as well as PS4 and Nintendo Switch. An Xbox One version exists overseas but its availability for this DLC is unconfirmed.
The Duelist switches between Attack and Defense stances, which change the performance of its skills. The Runaway applies a Burn debuff that deals continuous damage to enemies, and the DLC adds a new combat system that lets the Runaway set fire to dungeons.
The DLC introduces three new trinket systems: conditional triggers, quest charges, and evolving trinkets. Three new village districts are added: Academy Duelo, Artisan Workshop, and Archaeological Base.
Red Hook Studios stated that the DLC does not include newly recorded narration. Only narration for the ported heroes from Darkest Dungeon II is included, as a tribute to Wayne June, who died in January 2025.
Darkest Dungeon sold over 6 million copies as of a December 2022 announcement. The game entered Steam Early Access in 2015 and officially launched in January 2016. The sequel, Darkest Dungeon II, entered early access in October 2021 and fully released in 2023.
As of the announcement, only the Steam store page for the DLC has been listed. Availability on other platforms is unconfirmed. The Xbox One version of the base game exists overseas, but its support for this DLC is unknown.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.