Darkest Dungeon is a gothic roguelike dungeon crawler released in 2016, famous for its stress system, permadeath and the grave voice of its narrator, the Ancestor. Short narrator lines from the game became popular as reaction sounds because they turn ordinary failures into something theatrical and final. Obliterated circulates among gaming editors and meme creators as shorthand for a run that did not just fail but ended completely, which is why it still appears in wipe compilations, challenge videos and defeat montages years after release.