Dungeon Keeper Gold™

Dungeon Keeper is a game that represents an era of video-games, and it might be the finest of its type! This game gets a 100% recommendation if you enjoy: 1. Age of Empires (Any of them!) 2. Any of Bullfrog's other games, even Dungeon Keeper 2. 3. If you played War for the Overworld before playing this game, somehow. Or if you enjoy the idea of RTS gameplay, and want to get in to the genre. It's often put on sale, so if you don't want to play right away, then wait for one of those. Get it for just over a pound. Enough about that, let's talk about the game! This is the DOS version of it, other reviews will tell you how to make it high quality. The game is about building and maintaining a dungeon, and absolutely messing up the happy and joyful land. There are 20 main levels, 6 bonus levels and 15 Deeper Dungeons levels. Discounting the 5 "Tutorial" Levels, that leaves you with 36 fun levels that get gradually harder, especially Deeper Dungeons. Not like the tutorial levels are pushovers. The last 2 will certainly put a first time player on edge. Controls are simple. 90% of the game is the mouse, with plenty of hotkeys. I recommend rebinding them after you play the tutorials. The remaining 10% is rotating the camera and taking control of your lowly minions. Something that is simply fun to do now, but is impressive considering this game was made in 1997! Make sure to invert the camera though. Default is pulling the mouse down to look up. The tone of this game is part of why it aged so well. The narration and in game helper voice acting is done amazingly by Richard Ridings (Who also voices Daddy Pig from Peppa Pig). There's the soundtrack, which sounds heavy, like it really should. The humour never distracts from the dark tone. It's really hard to get the balance of horror elements and humour, but Dungeon Keeper has the golden ratio. I'm running out of space, so I need to wrap this up. I'd recommend the Nerd³ videos about this game, videos say more than I can here.

If you love fantasy slave labor simulator...this game is tits.

this game was the first to be rated 10/10 in many magazines in its time of 1990´s. so, this game was the best in it´s time. bullfrog made some amazing games in their time. (untill EA games bought them and fucked it pritty much up.) this game was so advanced, in a strategy genre, you could even go down in your minions level and fight in their stead. even tho the game was build on a dom engine, it was pritty cool! I have still the orginal game that I bought, and are still not regretting my buy. it was fun to play, and still are. ^^

Neat little unique RTS of the mid 90s. I highly recommend getting KeeperFX, It runs and plays much better. Dungeon Keeper defies a lot of your usual RTS gameplay elements. For example, you do not create units from buildings, instead you excavate through dirt walls with imp workers to discover new areas, some areas giving you new units. But the usual way you get units is by placing lair tiles, as well as other tiles gotten by researching them in a library you can build from the start of each mission. Helpful spells are also researched at libraries, which can be invaluable for things like scouting the area ahead with a spell of sight, or aiding your units in battle with various spells (Heal, Protect, Speed, etc) You can also train any unit to increase their level and stats by placing them in a built training area, this will however cost gold with each tick. You do not mindlessly harvest gold from a single point (usually), instead, there is many tiles of gold to dig out, but be careful, as you may accidentally tunnel into a dangerous area early on. Fortification of your walls is also important, as it prevents the enemy from tunneling through, at least until the super late game Breakwall spell is available, it's *really* expensive to cast though. You also do not control your units directly (you can possess a single creature at a time and control it in first person). Instead, you can pick up to 8 units at a time, and place them on any tile you own, and they will automatically attack nearby enemies. You can also place a battle banner which your units will generally head towards and fight whatever is towards it. Certain creatures don't get along very well, so it's important to seperate units that don't get along together. Overall, a pretty cool RTS. Can get a bit brutal and frustrating at times though.

Played the game already more than 20 years ago and still love it. Among so many games (and the list is long) that I played so far.. this just stays the hidden gem and all time favorite. The whole concept, digging yourself through the ground, seeing your imps filling up that gold chamber, the sounds of the different creatures, overall dark but funny atmosphere, joy of beating the incoming "humans", carrying away their corpses onto the graveyard and attracting vampires into the dungeon.. Ahh wait.. the chicken nursery.. grabbing the chicken to feed creatures, the use of magic, entering your own creatures and walk through the dungeon through the creatures eyes.. Some levels also had a resonable difficulty. It's hard to describe what makes this game so good. Basically I'd need the speak about every detail of this game, as all together just form an absolute masterpiece. It's definitely worth playing still post 2020 and years to come :) Unfortunately the sequels never reached that kind of feeling again, at least for me.