Dungeon Keeper Gold™

After "playing" EA's atrocious Dungeon Keeper mobile remake (read: not a remake at all, just a blatant cash grab) I had to come back and redownload and replay this gem of a game. Theme Hospital is great, Dungeon Keeper 2 is great, and I'd give them 5 star ratings as well, but the original Dungeon Keeper stands out above all similar games. It's got a great dark sense of humor, art design that keeps the graphics looking fresh even if they're outdates, and tons of character and replayability. If you don't already have it you should buy it right now.

Dungeon Keeper is a classic game in the unfortunately very thin base building genre. The basic idea is that you build and maintain dungeon, attract monsters to do your bidding and duke it out with the Lord of the Land and any other keeper, all with a good helping of dark humour. If you have played games such as Evil Genius and Startopia, meet their granddaddy. To help you do your bidding you have the imps. Puny, defenseless and beady-eyed, they are your little helpers in running the dungeon. They require neither food, pay nor sleep and they are the only of your creatures who can dig tunnels to expand your dungeon, mine gold and - most importantly - deliver gold to your treasury, as well as sundry upkeep. If they are not up to snuff you can right-click them to give them a slap with your Hand of Evil to give them the proper motivation, at the cost of some of their health. As the only thing an imp can do in battle is to die, you'll need to attract more combat-oriented creatures to your dungeon. Not only do they expect to be paid, but they also require the dungeon to be up to their standard - the bulbous bile demons won't join you unless you have a large hatchery to support their feeding pleasures, and the kinky dark mistresses won't be attracted unless you have a torture chamber to fulfill their... other pleasures. Once you actually have creatures in the dungeon the work is not over. They need to spend time in the training room (costing money) to acquire new abilities and be useful in combat, when they level up they expect to be paid more (do they think you are made of gold?) and all through this you need to keep them happy by making sure that their needs are satisfied - worst come to worst you can drop a sack on gold on them to make them happy. Additionally certain creatures do not get along with each other. A spider will try to pull the wings of every fly it comes across, if you convert a heroes wizard through judicious use of torture expect him and your warlock to have "words", and the ultimate death machine, the Horned Reaper, does not get along with anyone will have to be kept separately. But honestly, why are you still reading this review at this point? Just buy the game already! It's the good Bad choice.

I have really nostalgia related to this game. I spent countless hours building dungeons as kid. I still like to return to it from time to time.

The game is great, this release not so much. the sound is too choppy to play. i regret spending the 6 or 7 bucks it costed cuz it's never going to get played its so bad.

Finally found this site after trying to force my old Dungeon Keeper to work on my laptop, and I'll admit I was wary of at first, but I went for it; no regrets at all. It is just as I remembered it, and yes, the resolution starts off low, but just press alt + r in game and it dramatically improves. Seriously, if you're a Dungeon Keeper fan, buy this, it's cheap and it's brilliant.