Darkest Dungeon is a gothic dungeon-crawling game by Red Hook Studios, released in 2016, in which the Ancestor narrates the player's doomed expedition. Wayne June voices the Ancestor, and his death-related lines became some of the game's most quoted moments because they frame failure as part of the story rather than a simple setback. Clips of the narration spread through gameplay videos, streams and meme edits, where players reused the line for any run that collapsed. It remains popular because it perfectly captures the game's bleak humour and punishing difficulty.