Dungeon Keeper Gold™

Quit yer bellyaching! because there are ways to make this DOS version look like the Windows one! - PRESS ALT+R to change resolution! It will be BEAUTIFUL again! -The game will still slow down at times, but what more do you want? it's 1997. Needles to say, this game is UNEQUALED.

Dungeon Keeper is an RTS (although for some reason Bullfrog started it as an RPG, then changed of mind) renowned for its uniqueness. First of all, here you aren't fighting for the cause of justice and goodness but on the contrary, you're the Evil Dungeon Keeper. Your role is to avoid heroes to conquer your dungeon while you manage all the economics within, breed new and terrifying creatures and submerge the land in horror an chaos. To do that, you're presented with a somewhat simple mechanic: you must dig up for gold, with that gold you have to build facilites, and those facilities will create more minions for your evil army. So, you have to keep an eye on rival Dungeon Keepers while maintaining invader heroes at bay all while you must control your own followers. Dungeon Keeper has plenty of what made Bullfrog some of the best game studios of all history. It is quite a refresh in the concept of RTS, well balanced gameplay, has a great atmosphere and above all: it's terribly fun. DK has also some of the best details you can imagine of: you can possess a creature and "be" it (for example you can be a Digger and infiltrate on enemy dungeons to reveal their secrets, or posses a powerful Dragon and run amok on the foes!), you can seduce Heroes and have them fight for your cause, the last King of the Land is a quite entertaining surprise and so on. On the techincals, Dungeon Keeper has fairly good 3D graphics that run smoothly then and now, quite good animations and a soundtrack quite combined with the general atmosphere of the game although very repetitive. The Advisor, as in every Bullfrog strategy based game, makes quite ironic remarks about you and your enemies performance. Dungeon Keeper had a sequel, Dungeon Keeper 2, which exploited in the concept without the magic of the first part although it is still a good strategy game. The original game came with a big photo of the development team (Horny the Horned Reaper included), a wallpaper of the game's map and some other assorted stuff apart from the main theme and a trailer. I almost forgot, Dungeon Keeper got an expansion pack named The Deeper Dungeons which was of interest only for the hardore players of the game. It also enjoyed a healthy online community which modded the game thoroughly. All in all, a great GOG acquisiton. I don't know whay you're going to do, I'm getting mine right now!

The game was great, untill recently, maybe 2 months or so ago, a needless little patch was added that caused the game to be very laggy and unplayable. Untill they fix this I can't recommend this version to anyone. GOG is supposed to make this playable on modern systems and it was, untill this last patch that did nothing but ruin the game.

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!