Dungeon Keeper Gold™

Dungeon keeper is one of those games where you play it once and gives the thirst for more. There is one goal in this game, defeat pesty human knights and conquer their places. The resource is just gold, for building the needs for your dungeon and even spells. Such an easy understanding... a must play for every rts geek. Do this before playing! -Increasing resolution and gaining some mercy on your eyes by clicking "ALT + R" ingame, the game will be lagging, to reduce this edit the file "dosboxDK.conf" and change the following "cycles=80000" to "cycles=max". -Because the game is in dos emulator, using "ALT + F12" will give you fast forward. (google dosbox shortcuts for more info) Liked parts: -You are evil, slap your working imps to let them work faster, level up your creatures to conquer the lands for your needs. -There is a spell that allows you to go in first person view and control your minion, this is just amazing! -Missions that are interesting, that will just keep you interested for a long period, took me 25 hours! -Sound, picking up creatures, torturing your enemy or mistress, chicken slapping, all of them just makes a statisfying atmosphere... weird. -Must explore the caves completely! You will find transfer question mark boxes. This will allow you the transfer one of your selected minion to be moved on the next level. Disliked parts: -Mission NEVERGRIM, oh my lord, it is unbeatable. Use transfer creature boxes! -Last mission, called skybird, once you think it is over, just wait and see. Try to convert the last enemy boss called the avatar! -Traps, these are just so irritating and overpowered, to disable them your imps have to convert the ground it is standing on, so it will take sacrifices. Neutral: -Save game limit is just to low. -No level editor included. -Temple cheat codes are never given. (search DK temple recipes) All in all, a must play for peeps that likes making base, level up your creatures and dominating your enemies. Just smashingly evil.

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.