Dungeon Keeper™ 2

Dungeon Keeper II is an excellent game with solid gameplay that's well paced, it's suitable for all ages as there's no foul language or shocking visuals. It has elements that appeal to a variety of gamers, aspects ranging from designing your own dungeon to managing your horde of minions in combat situations. The controls are simple to master and sufficient for the gameplay, DKII does not require an ultra powerful computer as it's quite old nor do you need crackerjack reflexes and there's enough content in there to keep you entertained for a long time. It supports multi-player in addition to a marvelous single player campaign which packed to the rafters with a unique brand of humor as well as a skirmish mode. The game itself was marvelously innovative for its time and the pace at which you unlock new content in the game is slow enough that there's always something to look forward to but consistent enough to ensure you always feel rewarded for each of your actions - I cannot recommend this game highly enough.

in present time everything works perfectly (win 7)

This is one of my favorite strategy games. It's humorous and cartoony atmosphere adds a lot to the overall experience. You play as an evil "Keeper" who has to build rooms to attract creatures to your dungeon and make sure their needs (food, gold, sleep) are met so they don't become unhappy and leave. It's really addictive and the difficulty isn't too hard in single player mode. I give this game a solid 5 stars. However, on my Windows 10 Home machine I experience frequent crashes when the game goes on for too long (30+ minutes). Sometimes it simply crashes to desktop and I get a popup error. Other times my entire computer freezes, forcing me to reboot. It never crashed like this when I first got the game when it came out. The game is still playable though, but I would recommend saving often if you hit the 20 minute mark.

Hi, I just downloaded Dungeon Keeper 2 today. For some reason unknown to me i cannot seek to get passed the main menu. Nothing i click on responds to me. I have to press alt and F4 just to get out of the game. I currently use windows 10 but i didnt think that would or should be an issue as it says that it can run on that system. Any advice would be much appreciated? Regards Aaron

The good part + You can group minions easier + You can select tiles to dig and to build on easier The bad part - Comic-like graphics that miss out on the dark tone of the first part, models look clunky and worse than the pixelstuff of part one - Hotkey-layout and bindings are a backstep, missing out important functions that you could even bind in the first part. E.g. still no no hotkeys for spells (speed or possession) or not even the (often needed) functions (selling mode, query mode). - UI controls: E.g.There is no way to tab through the panels. In part 1 you could at least least jump to the expected panel with 1-5. Here you cant, quess why? Cause 1-5 is reserved for creature abilities. That was also true in part one, but there the hotkeys simply changed depending if you were in keeper-mode or possession-mode. Incomprehensible why such a basic thing got removed. - Documentation: Not the only part being removed, also the information panel for creatures is swapped out. While you could see the stats of different creatures in part one to estimate what they are good for, even when those stats were wrongly described, the second part does not offer such a thing. You can upgrade Spells. What for? The tooltip does not tell. - Watered down game mechanics: But for what do you need documentation when you take out the interesting mechanics anyway? Room efficiency is basically gone - you can build like a moron. There is no gain of walling the rooms in, having certain shapes of them or making sure that tiny imps don't run through the library as the studying warlock rewarded such behavior with fireballs. Instead of deepening such mechanics, they removed them. This is just an excerp of what is wrong with UI, controls or mechanics, ignoring the bad level building and missing difficulty all along. This sequel is the epitome of the still present trend to make games accessible for a big audience instead of teaching your it to learn and appreciate your game.