To begin with, the story is simple yet the dialogue is hilarious – you begin the game with a cutscene explaining that after the last game, the ‘Absolute Evil’ (you), had nothing to do after driving the world into blackness and despair. The game does have its flaws (some of which are quite major) but what it does, it does very well. This leads us to the present, October 2017, Dungeons 3 has been released on the PS4, Xbox One and PC – I have had the pleasure of playing this game for the last week thanks to Kalypso Media, and I can honestly say that is one of the best resource management + RTS games I have played in a while. We were back to controlling the ‘Ultimate Evil’, who is now a disembodied spirit after he was defeated by the heroes, and you create and control minions to help build an underground dungeon, summon creatures to fight for you and build various rooms and facilities to both satisfy your inhabitants’ needs and increase their stats and abilities. However, back in 2015, they released Dungeons 2 which was exactly what I was waiting for – a spiritual successor/reboot of Dungeon Keeper (with no input or involvement from Bullfrog). It took the premise of Dungeon Keeper but turned the main focus back onto heroes rather than the creatures – It was met with average reviews and, personally, I didn’t like it that much (sorry guys). The game spawned an official sequel and a mobile version, which we’ll pretend never existed, but officially there wasn’t a true sequel since 1999.Įnter Realmforge Studios, and publisher Kalypso Media – back in 2010 they released Dungeons which was a bit of a mess, to be honest. One of their biggest titles at the time was Dungeon Keeper – an RTS which turned the tables and allows you to play as the bad guys by building a dungeon and fending off waves of attacks by ‘heroes’. Cast your mind back to the late ’90s, back when games were challenging (but fun) and Bullfrog was still around and releasing hit after hit.

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