Darkest Dungeon is a gothic roguelike role playing game released by Red Hook Studios in 2016, famous for its stress system and the Ancestor's narration by Wayne June. His grave voiceover turns victories, failures and discoveries into bleak warnings, and short clips of that narration spread widely through gaming videos, streams and meme edits. This machinations clip survives because the delivery makes any plan sound doomed and sinister, so creators reuse it far beyond the game for reveals, schemes and moments where overconfidence is about to be punished.