Dungeons 2

It does many things better than Dungeon Keeper (2) and many worse. The Dungeon keeper feeling is sort of back. Digging is far less satisfying, because there is nothing really to explore. This was one of the big Pros of Dungeon Keeper and it's more or less not existing here. The overworld fighting is a completely useless part of the game. The User Interface is not good at all! Micro management is annoying. Why don't my monsters go train themselves? I have to put them there all by myself every time. Why is the camera stuck so close to the ground? I want to zoom out further, I hardly see what's going on. This sounds mostly negative now, but this is because I am a bit dissapointed that so many simple things are not done right.

Generally when you think of a game post launch, you think about them fixing bugs or maybe adding in stuff they didn't quite have time to finish off before launch... this developer sees it another way. The game had LAN support but they arbitrarily decided to remove it or as they put it "Removed distinction between LAN/Internet game" or in simple speak 'it will connect to an online match-making server'. The dev was evasive when asked about D3 on steam eventually stating it doesnt support LAN either. I'm not going to buy anything from this dev again to remove features post launch for no reason is just damn right dishonest

I have been a fan of DK for a long time. This is a fun game, but it's very, very short. There are like 10 missions on single player, and I found only a couple of skirmish maps. Also the campaign it's not particularly hard, and there are a lot of things that are not even required to progress. It's obvious the game is DK, and if you're expecting that, you're obviously going to be disappointed, but if you do it like playing a different game, you're going to have a good time. It's not going to be a memorable game, but it's not a waste of time. Also, it doesn't seem to have a lot of replayability, since while I liked it, I don't feel like playing the DLCs. I feel they should belong to the base game... it's already quite expensive. Oh, I find it quite funny, not a masterpiece of course, but fun enough :)

This game is enjoyable and has a good story but it falls down in a number of areas. - The leveling system is not much fun. Too many rooms and items are locked behind dungeon upgrades. The training rooms, population caps and traps are just some of the major upgrades that almost cripple your progress when they are not available and going to the overworld to increase your "evilness" through some arbitrary actions is the only way to unlock them. It would be better to just be able to research things and unlock them with earned mana or some other resource. - The non-gold economy is nearly pointless. You can have all the toolboxes and mana to research everything but this is nearly useless when everything is tied to gold anyways and you need to wait for the little snots to mine it out. - Everything seems to go really slowly. Your little snots are needed for everything. Reloading traps, brewing beer and mining gold are all performed by these creatures. This wouldn't be a big issue if you spawn thousands of them like you do in Dungeon Keeper but you can't because they are tied to your population cap. - The game is nice looking and the art style really suits it but it took some big dips in performance on my decent gaming laptop even at the lowest settings and the engine really doesn't seem suited to having lots of traps and creatures running around. I would rather have a worse looking game that supported much larger dungeons with more creatures and traps. - The Overworld/RTS mechanic is interesting. It adds a sort of tower defense element to your own dungeon and makes attacking the enemy require a more considered approach than the usual throw everything at them approach that sums up dungeon battles. Despite this it still feels like it needs more fleshing out and there are too many elements that require dungeon upgrades to unlock units to make it more tactical. Dungeons 2 still has its moments and I would really like to play a sequel that ironed out some of these problems that I have with the game.