Posted on: September 6, 2024
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Very in line with the Dungeon Keeper series. Enjoyable.
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War for the Overworld
Description
Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you built your own!
War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RTS and God Game genres. Carve out your Dungeon and conquer the Overworld!
Do you feel you are in a slump? Monotonously disembowelling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? You are starting to wonder... are heroics really your calling? Then welcome to the War for the Overworld!
Dungeon Management Reincarnated
Excavate and build your dungeon beneath the overworld, in the modern dungeon management game that’s most faithful to the genre’s original DNA. Keep your dungeons, slap your minions, and forge underground fortresses filled with all the dastardly rooms, traps and heinous minions you desire. Do it all under the mentorship of the original and best voice of evil: Richard Ridings!
Wield the Arsenal of Evil
Evil loves options, and within the Veins of Evil there are plenty to go around! Choose from over sixty rooms, spells, potions, rituals, defences and constructs as you progress through the game. Deploy your fiendish tools against the goodly heroes of the overworld, and teach them the price of trespass.
Conquer a Myriad of Modes
With six game modes to choose from you can conquer your enemies in your own unique way. Choose from Campaign, Skirmish, Scenarios, Multiplayer, Survival, and the My Pet Dungeon expansion (free 2-level demo included in the base game), and discover what it truly means to be the bad guy.
Customise, Create, and Share with Your... Enemies
Build your own maps and campaigns with the intuitive and powerful Map Editor, complete with scripting support, then share them with the community to join the ranks of thousands of custom maps already created! Meddle further, and change the very rules themselves to your liking with dozens of mutators. Being evil has never been so creative!
Made by Cultists (Fanatics), for Cultists (Fanatics)
War for the Overworld is developed by an independent team of fanatical developers, each with a true love of the dungeon management genre. We have continued to update the game since launch, with countless patches, balancing, polish, and many new features. Our community has been vital to our success, and we couldn’t have made the game what it is today without their help. We thank them sincerely.
War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RTS and God Game genres. Carve out your Dungeon and conquer the Overworld!
Underlord Edition also available! In War for the Overworld, each and every Underlord is their own unique being. A dungeon is a direct reflection of an Underlord’s presence and individuality. The Underlord Edition includes an extra Dungeon Theme, game soundtrack, lore book The Dungeoneer’s Guide to the Underworld (English only), and short story compilation All That Is Gold (English only)!
Ultimate Edition also available! If you desire the absolute incarnation of evil, then look no further than the Ultimate Edition, which features: base game, Heart of Gold expansion, My Pet Dungeon expansion, The Under Games expansion, Underlord Edition extras (dungeon theme, soundtrack, lore books).
Do you feel you are in a slump? Monotonously disembowelling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? You are starting to wonder... are heroics really your calling? Then welcome to the War for the Overworld!
Dungeon Management Reincarnated
Excavate and build your dungeon beneath the overworld, in the modern dungeon management game that’s most faithful to the genre’s original DNA. Keep your dungeons, slap your minions, and forge underground fortresses filled with all the dastardly rooms, traps and heinous minions you desire. Do it all under the mentorship of the original and best voice of evil: Richard Ridings!
Wield the Arsenal of Evil
Evil loves options, and within the Veins of Evil there are plenty to go around! Choose from over sixty rooms, spells, potions, rituals, defences and constructs as you progress through the game. Deploy your fiendish tools against the goodly heroes of the overworld, and teach them the price of trespass.
Conquer a Myriad of Modes
With six game modes to choose from you can conquer your enemies in your own unique way. Choose from Campaign, Skirmish, Scenarios, Multiplayer, Survival, and the My Pet Dungeon expansion (free 2-level demo included in the base game), and discover what it truly means to be the bad guy.
Customise, Create, and Share with Your... Enemies
Build your own maps and campaigns with the intuitive and powerful Map Editor, complete with scripting support, then share them with the community to join the ranks of thousands of custom maps already created! Meddle further, and change the very rules themselves to your liking with dozens of mutators. Being evil has never been so creative!
Made by Cultists (Fanatics), for Cultists (Fanatics)
War for the Overworld is developed by an independent team of fanatical developers, each with a true love of the dungeon management genre. We have continued to update the game since launch, with countless patches, balancing, polish, and many new features. Our community has been vital to our success, and we couldn’t have made the game what it is today without their help. We thank them sincerely.
Copyright Subterranean Games Ltd. 2013-2018, Copyright Brightrock Games Ltd. 2015-2018
Popular achievements
Indy
Locate the hidden Artefact on level 2
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38.98%
Completionist
Claim all 3 Siege Shrines on level 4
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49.64%
Awakening
Complete level 1
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88.27%
Welcome to Kairos
Complete level 2
common
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79.93%
The Breach
Complete level 3
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65.45%
Shades of Grey
Complete level 4
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55.64%
The Rear Guard
Complete level 5
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46.08%
Behind Enemy Lines
Complete level 6
common
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41.32%
Heart Attack
Complete level 7
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36.19%
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
Multiplayer Notice: Multiplayer is available online via GOG Galaxy, as well as via LAN and Direct IP. All multiplayer connection methods are cross-compatible with the Steam version of the game.
Linux notice: Before playing the game, please make sure you are using the latest proprietary drivers for your graphics card.
Recommended system requirements:
ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
Multiplayer Notice: Multiplayer is available online via GOG Galaxy, as well as via LAN and Direct IP. All multiplayer connection methods are cross-compatible with the Steam version of the game.
Linux notice: Before playing the game, please make sure you are using the latest proprietary drivers for your graphics card.
Time to beat
14.5 hMain
26.5 h Main + Sides
48.5 h Completionist
19 h All Styles
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The Jimquisition
7.5/10
I can only remain confident that, from this positive base, Overworld is only going to get better. It just would have been wonderful to have it begin that way, because we don't rate potential here.
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7/10
Not so much a sequel to Dungeon Keeper 2 as an unofficial remake, and while a little magic has been lost along the way this is still a charmingly unique strategy game.
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Posted on: September 15, 2024
Kyrylo_O
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 2
good old game
I love it
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Posted on: March 21, 2025
RantChasey
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 6
War for the Overworld
It tries to be a Dungeon Keeper remake, but it's not doing a great job.
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Posted on: December 14, 2020
Solscar
Verified ownerGames: 417 Reviews: 6
More than an keeper could dare to hope!
This game flew under my radar for a long time, but I'm glad to say that it exceeds all expectations. Dungeon Keeper 3 was never released by bullfrog, but I'm happy to say that these guys have it well in hand
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Posted on: July 6, 2025
Montanagirl
Verified ownerGames: 64 Reviews: 2
Dungeon Keeper with modern flaws
I should have done some research beforehand and asked for a refund. I was absolutely prepared to expierence a straightforward Dungeon Keeper clone which it seems to be and thats totally fine. The problem is that its also designed like a F2P mobile game. The main menue is cluttered with social media and buy this, buy that, "look here, gimme engagement" and the first game mode I wanted to dive into already tries to lowkey fomo me into buying a dlc really bad. Literally before I actually start the game once, it tries to milk me. Not with a new feature mind you. With a game mode that is absolutely barebones and was simply a basic part of the original game. Its also as I said obviously designed with a manipulative marketing intend to make me spend a little more right away. Thats just horrible behavior even for a innovatively designed new piece of vidya. This however is a simple Dungeon Keeper clone. They took an almost two decades old game, scratched the label off, spray painted it just to sell the pieces individually. So there is no extras in development aside from marketing which as a customer is the last thing I care about. I do my best to ignore it and maybe get insulted when I look at the price tag out of sale. And even during one this was not worth it. Apart from that the art direction is sadly fitting the FTP mobile game vibe and the optimization is horrible, even in 2025. You can get the full original games this was based on completely add free and without chinese mobile game bloat or predatory business practices right from the scrapbook of an EA suit for five bucks each or less during sales, so I'd strongly recommend you get that first and only come back if you really, really want more.
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