On this page, we’ll take a look at the Occult Ritual (Dark Ritual / ТЕМНЫЙ РИТУАЛ) in Dungeon Crusher. I’ve seen a lot of new players wondering why they lose their progress—it’s because they don’t read the spells before casting them!
Why did I lose my heroes and statistics?
This is because you have just performed an Occult Ritual (Dark Ritual / ТЕМНЫЙ РИТУАЛ), if you click on the Dark Ritual icon, it will automatically take you back to the beginning BUT with bonus blue souls that will allow you to deal more damage, buy soul artifactsto make donations for clan science.
What is the Occult Ritual?
Occult ritual is a game function that acts like a reset; heroes all return to level 0, but successes, magic bottles, currencies, equipped artifacts, Hearts, Emeralds, Hero Shards and craft equipment are unaffected.
When using the Occult Ritual, the player receives 1 Hero Soul for every 200 hero levels purchased. And you earn bonuses for every boss specter you have killed.
The Dark Ritual is unlocked from Brath the Merciless at hero level 125.

When should an Occult Ritual be performed?
There are different times, the best of which is when your quests require it and you need to mount certain champions. When you get stuck and need souls (you can do a light ritual if you don't want to go back to the beginning).
This can also be useful when you lose champions you need instead of paying to revive them.
The goal is to perform occult rituals later and later (unless you need to farm stuff quickly and use the reincarnation altar. We'll cover that in another tutorial).
Occult ritual bonuses.
You get bonuses with achievements when you perform occult rituals, you gain DPC (only for click damage, not DPS).
| Name of the achievement | Description | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Risen | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 1 time. | +250 DPC |
| Immortal | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 3 times. | +5% DPS |
| Servant of the Lich | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 5 times. | +5% DPS |
| Lich | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 10 times. | +5% DPS |
| Great Lich | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 25 times. | +10% DPS |
| Great Lich II | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 50 times. | +10% DPS |
| Great Lich III | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 100 times. | +10% DPS |
| Great Lich IV | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 250 times. | +10% DPS |
| Great Lich V | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 500 times. | +20% DPS |
| Great Lich VI | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 750 times. | +20% DPS |
| Great Lich VII | Use the OCCULTED RITUAL 1000 times. | +20% DPS |







