In Play: Going stir crazy in Darkest Dungeon

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In Play is a new column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week, if you remember that.
Maybe it's the cold snap, but it feels like the games industry has been particularly slow to crawl out of its holiday hibernation this year. It's quiet; too quiet. At Eurogamer, we've had so much time on our hands that we resorted to moving our desks around and finally relaunching our podcast. (For keeps this time. Honest!) It certainly beats going outside into that bracing Brighton air. Brrr.
Still, it's hard not to feel a little cooped up, a little hemmed in by sore throats and short days. Where better to escape to than the bright freedom of a video game world? Thing is, the games seem reluctant to come out of their shells, too. Casting about for the week's new releases, I found mostly reissues, remasters and special editions - and even those had a tendency to be a little, shall we say, inward-looking.
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