Fun on its own merits, not a Dungeon Keeper clone
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“If you can go into it without expecting to be playing Dungeon Keeper it's a really well made and fun game.”
Steam review · 32 h played ↗
Dungeons
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Mixed · 45%Mixed · 45%Realmforge Studios2011Management · Strategy · RPG
−90%$9.99$0.99
US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A quirky, dated "theme park for heroes" take on dungeon management with dark humor and a long campaign. Skip it if you want Dungeon Keeper or hate micromanagement.
Great for
Players who enjoy quirky, slow-paced tycoon-style management with dark humor and judge it on its own terms
Main risk
Mandatory, often broken Kalypso launcher account plus repetitive micromanagement; it isn't Dungeon Keeper
What players love
Unique hero-pleasing, soul-harvesting concept
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The idea of luring the heroes in, making them as happy as possible, and then sucking the soul energy from them as they die is truly diabolical and befitting of the genre.”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Funny, charming dark humor and story
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“my favorite thing is the voice actor for my subserviant goblin assistant, Everything he says is golden”
Steam review · 35.1 h played ↗
Long campaign with RPG progression and sandbox
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“The game also offers a fun sandbox mode which allows you to set your own goals and start a dungeon from "scratch".”
Steam review · 24 h played ↗
Runs fine on modern PCs for its age
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“I'm thrilled that it runs so well on my modern PC. I haven't had to mess with anything to keep it stable.”
Steam review · 42.7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Forced Kalypso launcher, account and data collection
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“To play the game you have to go through the process of editing a hosts file in your drivers to block the kalypso launcher from requiring a an account.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Boring, repetitive, tedious micromanagement
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“you do this until you realize the whole game is just doing this over and over and get tired of it.”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
Launcher says product key in use or login fails
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“with the added launcher that doesn't work & always says that my product key is already in use, I can't even play it anymore.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗
Minions are useless; you must kill every hero yourself
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“You want your dungeon to kill heroes? nope you have to do that yourself... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗
Confusing mechanics and poor tutorial
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“at no point did i feel like i was in control of the game”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗
Crashes and bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“the game crashes randomly during levels, and whilst this would not be such a big deal, the game ALSO sometimes crashes when you save”
Steam review · 22.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7/Vista/ XP SP2
Processor2.0 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB
Graphics256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics card with Shader Model 3.0
Storage2 GB free HDD
OSWindows 7/Vista/ XP SP2
Processor2.0 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB
Graphics256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics card with Shader Model 3.0
Storage2 GB free HDD
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