Dungeons 3

I bought it on sale for $8, and I regret my choice. It might be a decent game, but the controls are poorly refined, the graphics are hard to parse, and they do a lousy job of setting goals and building your understanding of the game, even in the tutorial levels, and even for the very first task. At the end of the tutorial I found myself fighting off waves of the enemies, with no clear idea what my goal was, how many waves would be coming, no training on controlling or gather monsters in the dungeon... After killing off 3 waves with spells, and getting progressively more bored of it, a 4th wave made it to my dungeon heart. It started a repetative announcement that my dungeon heart was under attack and I needed to defend it. I couldnt' tell which heroes were doing what, and they blended into the scenerey with my own workers and soldiers. Where were my defenders? How do I tell them to defend? Do they do it automatically or do they have to be called? All the while 2/5 of the screen is covered by my spell list, and another 2/5 is obscured by a popup explaining the spell I most recently cast (that one with no apparent way to dismiss). Bored, frustrated, all of my defenders dead (I could only tell because I pulled up my army pane it was at 2, 1, and empty)... I just quit. Don't bother unless you want to puzzle it out, and deal with graphics and controls that aren't designed for intelligibility and usability.

Simply awesome

I like grinding and turtling. Corny humor not so much, but it goes with the spirit of the game :)

I love 'city' building games. Dungeon Keeper 2 was always on of my favorites. I had never even heard of 1 or 2, and now there's a 4th. This game is pretty in depth. Need to defeat certain areas to get 'evil points' to complete most of the research. Some of the rooms need a specific item to function properly. The comedy of this game and so many references to lots of other games and even pop culture. I don't think it's jab, it's more paying homage. I am loving the game, now I need to get 4.

Fun, mechanically sound and fun spin on the "Keeper" concept. Art direction is fantastic, plenty of hat tips which is an ongoing theme throughout the game. Good job at borrowing from other source material without outright committing copyright infringement, while simultaneously conveying a discernably individual art style. I'd chill on the silly references in the dialogue, however. Every fourth or fifth hit, and unfortunately there are many more to endure between them. I'd be very curious to see how the team would approach a unique or licensed IP, however, don't get it twisted. All the pieces of a fun game are present and accounted for.