The Sluice

"Tread carefully and quickly. This is swine country."

- The Academic

The Sluice is one of the routes that can be traveled in Darkest Dungeon II. It is shorter than the other regions with a more limited selection of encounters, and is unmapped. Players will have to navigate mostly blind, with the only clues to future encounters coming at forks in the road. The Sluice does not count as one of the three regions that must be traversed to reach the Mountain, and it provides an extra bonus to the score when ending a run. The Sluice does not carry any region modifiers or quests. It is essentially a difficult but short 'bonus' region that grants an opportunity for extra rewards, at the risk of difficult enemy encounters with little to no chance for re-supply.

Encounters

 * The Inn
 * Academic's Study
 * Shrine of Reflection
 * The Warrens (encounter with Swine)
 * Oblivion's Ingress (encounter with Cultists)

Enemies
The main enemy faction in The Sluice is the Swine.


 * Swine Brute
 * Swine Skulker

Narrator Quotes

 * When selecting The Sluice as the next route at an Inn:
 * "Unmapped, unexplored. A risky proposition."
 * Upon arrival in The Sluice:
 * "Tread carefully and quickly. This is swine country."