Quick history lesson, back in the late 90s there was a game released on PC by the now defunct Bullfrog Studios. It was marked as being one of the earliest games where you played the villain of the piece instead of the usual hero. That game was Dungeon Keeper! You were basically given to role [...]
Quick history lesson, back in the late 90s there was a game released on PC by the now defunct Bullfrog Studios. It was marked as being one of the earliest games where you played the villain of the piece instead of the usual hero. That game was Dungeon Keeper! You were basically given to role of a near godly overseer of an underground dungeon and you needed to mine gold, expand your lair and entice monsters to joining you, and beat up wayward heroes who stumbled into your domain.
The game got a sequel in 99 which, to this day, remains one of my favourite games ever made! There was also a teaser video in DK2 for another sequel where your minions made it to the surface and were ready to wreak havoc but nothing ever came of it. Then, the series pretty much died. EA didn’t see much in the series and bullfrog closed its doors so it seemed like we would only ever get Dungeon keeper 2 to keep our evil sides entertained. Then, I found out about a kickstarter campaign for a game called war for the overworld. They claimed that it was a spiritual successor to the dungeon keeper series so I was more than a little intrigued. I’m not usually a fan of kickstarter, due to the whole uncertainty of the thing but when Dungeon keeper was invoked, all bets were off and I pledged a sum to see the game made!
And then I kinda forgot about the whole thing until a friend reminded me of its existence thanks to a well timed tweet! Turns out that, since I pledged a decent sum to the development of the game, I got free access to the beta, which is now available on steam!!
And all I can say is, this isn’t a spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper 2. it IS dungeon keeper 2!! Only a sandbox version is available for testing, which allows you access to build 4 rooms and a large area to build in but no objectives or heroes to defeat. The interface, the look and feel of the game, everything just screams Dungeon Keeper… and I LOVE IT!!!
At this stage, things are looking rather rough, bugs are present and controls are a little fiddly but the core gameplay is there and everything points to good things happening when this game gets released!
If you’re even a passing fan of the old series, you owe it to yourself to earmark this game!!