Dungeon Keeper Gold™

Dungeon Keeper is a mixture between a real-time strategy and a god game à la Black & White (which, by the way, comes from the same developers). In the role of a powerful, god-like entity, your task will be to attract evil creatures into your fortified dungeon, feed them, train them and finally unleash them against any wandering hero party or rival keeper. You don't control directly your units; instead you'll have to assign them tasks as they go about their business. Keep in mind however that not all creatures like or are well versed into an activity: you'll have to consider their attitudes before assigning any to a particular job. Flies and spiders, for instance, do not get along and will fight to death if close; warlocks are great researchers but refuse to step into a workshop, unlike trolls who, in turn, can't hold a book but crave manufacturing doors and traps. Pick up creatures and drop them around the enemies in order to defeat them. Then, you'll be able to have the poor victims imprisoned and tortured (the same treatment may be reserved to your own creatures should the situation requires) or left to decompose in a cemetery - provided that you have one - where there's a chance they'll return to life as vampires. You also have spells: these are extremely varied and allow the player to turn enemies into chickens, spread diseases among the enemy ranks, strike the foes with lightning bolts, possess his own creatures and explore the dungeon through their eyes and so on. Re-playability is very high because each map can be completed in a virtually infinite number of ways. Rest assured, you won't get bored. The story line is somewhat sketchy but you probably won't notice; instead, you're likely to giggle at the bleak humour that permeates the game. The unofficial mod "Keeper FX" adds many new campaigns and fixes the bugs left, making this game more than worth your money. Buy it now and see for yourself that, as the slogan says, it's good to be bad!

Hi all, i've readed the reviews on this website, and the most helpful review says that dungeon keeper is low-res. It is true that dungeon keeper launches in low res from default. But if you are in-game and you press alt+R, you will switch to high-res :) Thumbs up to dungeon keeper still being the best!

Dungeon Keeper has got to be one of my all-time favorite games. DK was a highly innovate game in its time, and it could be argued that it's still one of a kind even today. Not only is the idea of being pure evil a great change from political correctness, the game also contains magnificent humor. In the campaign you play an evil keeper, hellbent on conquering the goodly heroes of the overworld. The beginning scenarios are easy, but the difficulty can quickly ramp up. Patience is key, you must train your creatures to high levels in the Training Room, research new spells and rooms in the Library and expand your dungeon. You do not have direct control over your minions; they are autonomous. However, you can always pick them up and drop them wherever you want them to go; be it to engage in combat or perform training, research or build traps and doors to protect your dungeon. Different creatures are good at different tasks - Warlocks will help you research spells, Trolls are great at manufacturing, and Dark Mistresses love to torture enemy heroes that you capture and toss into the Torture Chamber. There are so many great things to say about DK - the variety of creatures, the unique style, the evil theme, and so on. The only negative thing I can think of is the combat, which is very simple. You simply drop your creatures on land that you have claimed, and the fight plays out by yourself. You do have the ability to cast spells, however. That and the fact that this is supposedly the low-resolution DOS-release, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the game itself, since a Windows version also exists. Highly recommended.

There I am managing my peaceful Dungeon when Boom! A group of miscreants invade my dungeon and start killing my Minions! This, (and the even better Dungeon Keeper 2), are a great take on dungeons. As everyone else has pointed out, ALT +R will switch from 320x240 to 640x480 resolution. The game gets much harder as you progress through the Scenarios. I recommend doing multiple saves through each game. This is a simulation/RTS style game. The price is right and it is very entertaining!

I have very strong nostalgia for this game. It is one of the games I used to play like crazy when I was a teenager, along with Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo (1 and 2), Daggerfall and the (Heroes of) Might and Magic series. I consider this era to be the golden age of PC gaming. It was all about having FUN. Nowadays gamers are nitpicky about details, like "are the reflections on the chicken sandwich realistic or not ?". But back then, even though graphics still had their importance, the only question was : is the game fun or not ? And how can a game were you basically play the Devil not be fun ? Building your dungeon, slapping your minions, killing heroes, setting up traps... You can litterally sink hours into this game and still crave for more. My only criticism, which I already had back then, is that the campaign tends to lean too much towards "Human Keeper vs CPU Keeper". I prefered mission where you had to kill heroes. But anyway, this game is a true classic. If you're a young gamer, it's a way to try for yourself what gaming was all about in the late 90's. If you're on older gamer like myself, then I don't have to explain further why this game is a must have. I play this game at least once a year (not to completion, because there are some stiff difficulty spikes) and I will continue to do so until it is no longer possible. And if the graphics are really unbearable for you, there are some very good mods that help a lot.