Darkest Dungeon, 2016’s best dungeon crawler and Red Hook’s Lovecraftian masterpiece, is getting a touch up and continued support in 2017.

The vampire-themed Crimson Court DLC has been in production for several months now, but before it’s debut, Red Hook plans to add a new “Radiant mode” that cuts the game’s admittedly grindy 80+ hour campaign into a more manageable 40 or so hour one. In the recent patch notes, Red Hook included this blurb about the shortened mode:

“One of the most common critiques of the game is that the significant length to completion can lead to some players abandoning their campaigns, especially after a particularly nasty party-wipe with a valuable trinket loadout. Game length also exacerbates some of the grindier elements of the game’s design. While a portion of this endurance test is simply Darkest Dungeon as we intend it, we also would love for more players to be able to see the story through. So, we are planning an alternative game mode (RADIANT), which will have balance changes and rule tweaks aimed at bringing the completion time down to approximately 40 hours. Rest assured that even in this alternate campaign ruleset, we won’t be compromising on some of the core ideas that make DD what it is (e.g. permadeath, autosaving). However, we will flex here and there on some things and generally structure it so that a reasonable investment of time and effort can see things through to the deepest parts of the Ancestor’s trail. This also paves the way for additional modability, via exposing more options.”

The Crimson Court DLC is expected to drop sometime in “early 2017” with vampires, a mad vampire hunter boss known only as “The Fanatic,” and more content. For those who want it harder, yet sooner, Red Hook has also been teasing a potential new NG+ type mode for the future.