Dungeon Keeper™ 2

Nice, evil dungeon building game. Gameplay is still good after all this time.

THX GOG Team very much. Bought this game in 99. Back then my computer was too weak;) One of the best strategy games ever (same as DK1). Highly playable, each scenario is a bit different, campaing is just great.

When I first attempted to start the game, I would see nothing but a frozen black screen and had to use Alt-F4 to exit the screen. Thus, the game would not start for me on Windows 10 at first. However, due to having used the same patch to help other good old games work previously, I was aware of a patch that is available on the following GitHub page: https://github.com/elishacloud/dinputto8 I then downloaded Release v1.0.75.0, and after unzipping the downloaded file, I added the dinput.dll file into the game's installation directory. Next I went to the Properties of the DKII-DX (.exe) file and changed the compatibility to Windows 98/Windows ME. Now the game starts up properly and is working for me on Windows 10.

I've owned this game since its release but never been able to play it properly due to the incessant crashing. GoG's patch fixes this and allows playing uninterrupted! Almost! There are issues with multiplayer. There are sync issues that will cause the game to revert to last successful sync point causing a multiplayer game to get stuck in a loop and eventually crashing. It also occasionally crashes throughout multiplayer. I think it's only multiplayer that causes the issues as I haven't had problems with single player and skirmishes. Having said that occasionally using the HW acceleration fix will cause the game to be super sluggish. I've only seen this on two of four computers I've tried it on and it's gone away on one of them. Good job GoG, now please help me get multiplayer working and I'll gladly buy more copies!

Unlike a great many other games of its era, this game held up to the test of time. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself immediately dumping hours and hours into it right after I got it working. In fact, the only thing that stopped me from giving it a 5/5 is that the game DOES take a great amount of work to get working, though quite frankly it's nothing that Google can't provide answer for. It's also somewhat disappointing to see some of the old bugs persisting despite the years. All in all, really, really great game, but more effort could've been made when making it available for the more modern OS'.