Dungeon Keeper

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0.3

Overwhelming dislike- based on 624 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 624
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 624
  3. Negative: 604 out of 624
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  1. metrj
    Jan 12, 2023
    5
    hard to enjoy if you don't pay to play this game to be honest so it's disappointing
  2. Gregtami
    Oct 11, 2020
    0
    Corporate rape on a great franchise from my childhood. Pay-to-not-wait garbage with super greedy and **** microtransactions. Thanks EA I hate it.
  3. SyndShaw
    May 12, 2017
    10
    After 2017 update, game is worth playing. Never tried it before this update since the reviews where so bad. I don't know if the mechanic changed after the updates, but the building time, cost and microtransactions have uttermost been reduced concidering most of the reviews. Nonetheless I am enjoying to play this gem of a game.

    To bad the scar is to big to restore I am afraid.
  4. KypBA
    Jan 29, 2017
    0
    Stupid dead game!
    1. Gameplay is trash! Pay, pay, pay for everything!
    2. Game is ugly. Stupid animations and jokes!
    3. Clan system is mega stupid! All players in clans are cruel morons.
    4. Tournament star system sucks! Someone +200-300 stars for one raid, someone +9 stars! Stupid system! Pay, pay, pay, pay 2 win!

    Game isn't normal players!
  5. Madogg280
    Jul 25, 2016
    0
    I'm sorry but REALLY?
    Making a crappy mobile version of something that's otherwise brilliant? This is a disgrace to not only mobile games, but the original dungeon keeper series!
    In this game you have to wait for 24 hours for some blocks to get mined... Unless you pay a ludicrously high amount of money to speed it up. If you turn over to the original, it takes about a minute for 15 dirt    I'm sorry but REALLY?
    Making a crappy mobile version of something that's otherwise brilliant? This is a disgrace to not only mobile games, but the original dungeon keeper series!
    In this game you have to wait for 24 hours for some blocks to get mined... Unless you pay a ludicrously high amount of money to speed it up. If you turn over to the original, it takes about a minute for 15 dirt blocks, and you can have incredible amounts of imps, whilst this game takes the clash of clans approach and makes minions hard to obtain and each only does one thing for the time being.
    Original: Slap a minion then possess them and blast through the underground. That's amazing.
    This... Thing: Horridly ludicrous amounts of time spent on one measly little plot of dirt, unless you want to empty your wallet, despite the fact that you can buy the original 2 games for far, FAR less than you would pay in order to get far in this game...
    This is simply disgusting.    … Expand
  6. Cub
    Jan 5, 2016
    0
    This is not a game. To "play" it you open up the app, tap a block, wait 24 hours and repeat with more blocks. It's not a FREE GAME, it's a FREE WAIT. The original Dungeon Keeper games from the 1990s were amongst the best games in the WORLD, and it's an UNDERSTATEMENT to call this an insult to the original. Look at the number of 5 star reviews in the Play Store, nearly 150,000 5-starThis is not a game. To "play" it you open up the app, tap a block, wait 24 hours and repeat with more blocks. It's not a FREE GAME, it's a FREE WAIT. The original Dungeon Keeper games from the 1990s were amongst the best games in the WORLD, and it's an UNDERSTATEMENT to call this an insult to the original. Look at the number of 5 star reviews in the Play Store, nearly 150,000 5-star reviews from people who were either bribed by EA or are TOTAL deluded moron idiots. If you actually think this is OK, you seriously have a big problem. Basically, "Leave it for 24 hours if you don't want to fork over your real money to this abomination of a greedy developer. EA seem to be bent on buying great game developer companies and replacing their games with terrible free-to-play scams. This is how the industry is being destroyed.

    So just STOP giving these people ANY money. STOP giving them ANY 5 star reviews and this will stop.

    If you don't stop it's going to get so bad that in a few years they might buy up Minecraft and turn it into a 20x20 grid where it takes 10 minutes to mine a block of dirt and 14 days to mine a block of obsidian. You wouldn't want that to happen would you? So just stop supporting them so they will stop.    … Expand
  7. PlasmaCross
    Dec 14, 2015
    0
    Normally, I'm against giving games a 0. I think giving a game a 0 is almost always overreacting.
    Until I found this **** piece of **** A MICROTRANSACTION OF 70 POUNDS? At this point, it's not a microtransaction anymore, it's a megatransaction.
    Anyone who pays 70 pounds for a free to play game is literally, and I really do mean literally, retarded.
  8. MrWezz23
    Oct 2, 2015
    0
    NO NO NO NO NO Never again EA this is the last straw what is it with you and ruining good games explain this is not excusable. why ? does this piece of ass even exist 70 $ best value hahaha in the store. my first thought was this might be OK then i saw it with my own eyes micro-transaction this Micro-transaction that.
    i don't have more to say
  9. PokeMaster99999
    Jun 27, 2015
    0
    Stupid money-wasting not-game. Very little gameplay, and huge expenses. What would you rather:
    A) Waiting 4-24 hours to mine a SINGLE BLOCK
    B) Spending real money every time you want to 'mine' a block C) Never picking the game up again I'd pick C every time, as it's the cheapest and least-infuriating. Hey, at least this game is better than Super Princess Peach and Bayonetta, because    Stupid money-wasting not-game. Very little gameplay, and huge expenses. What would you rather:
    A) Waiting 4-24 hours to mine a SINGLE BLOCK
    B) Spending real money every time you want to 'mine' a block
    C) Never picking the game up again

    I'd pick C every time, as it's the cheapest and least-infuriating. Hey, at least this game is better than Super Princess Peach and Bayonetta, because you aren't forced to play as a woman, huh?    … Expand
  10. tmlorfing
    Apr 17, 2015
    0
    Unbelievably horrid in its design and intentions. This is not a game, it is a social experiment to see how long you are willing to wait 1 square (a pivotal game mechanic) to be dug out before buying into the experiment's fake economy. Shame on EA for ruining one of the greatest games in history, shame on EA for being a BILLION dollar powerhouse and still having the gall to chargeUnbelievably horrid in its design and intentions. This is not a game, it is a social experiment to see how long you are willing to wait 1 square (a pivotal game mechanic) to be dug out before buying into the experiment's fake economy. Shame on EA for ruining one of the greatest games in history, shame on EA for being a BILLION dollar powerhouse and still having the gall to charge microtransactions, shame on EA for its interference in rating this game on the iOS/Android markets. Stay very far away.… Expand
  11. Taylor_
    Mar 16, 2015
    0
    a repulsive abomination that shows EA true nature

    not only they buy and destroy great studios, but they drag through the mud the franchises they acquire ,EA is a literal cancer in the gaming industry
  12. brightestabyss
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    This is very simply a scam from Electronic Arts, Psychologically testing its victims by testing its patience by pulling on the tightness of your wallets.

    I have a very simple solution, don't download this game and move on because even if you are used to micro transactions, This game is still absolutely terrible by forcing you to pay a large sum of cash for very little reward. Despite    This is very simply a scam from Electronic Arts, Psychologically testing its victims by testing its patience by pulling on the tightness of your wallets.

    I have a very simple solution, don't download this game and move on because even if you are used to micro transactions, This game is still absolutely terrible by forcing you to pay a large sum of cash for very little reward.

    Despite it having 'Dungeon Keeper' in its name, It's a very simple trap and a cash-grab. The game being under the Dungeon Keeper name that has started this controversy that made EA apologize.

    Please, don't even bother to download it and just let it fade away.    … Expand
  13. DavidWarden
    Jan 11, 2015
    0
    I REALLY don't like this game .
  14. crozakos
    Dec 10, 2014
    1
    **** **** It's as if they WANT to make us angry. They took a classic and turned it into a disgraceful, pay2win **** WHY? WHYYY???

    Anyway, is the game PLAYABLE. It COULD be at least a half assed, 5/10 mobile remake. BUT, it is suffering from "MICRO"TRANSACTIONS. And believe me, there is nothing "micro" about a bunch of sh*t for 74.99$

    1/10 DON'T EVEN TRY
  15. versutus
    Dec 6, 2014
    10
    Don't listen to those "core gamer" cry babies (they clearly don't core gamers, just cry babies). If you love Clash of Clans, you will love this one too. This game (despite those negative reviews) is not about microtransaction, you can be good without paying a dime. But ofc if you could spend some dollars/euro/"whatever your currency is" on it, it will be easier for you. I'm playing itDon't listen to those "core gamer" cry babies (they clearly don't core gamers, just cry babies). If you love Clash of Clans, you will love this one too. This game (despite those negative reviews) is not about microtransaction, you can be good without paying a dime. But ofc if you could spend some dollars/euro/"whatever your currency is" on it, it will be easier for you. I'm playing it since launch, I never payed for it, and the game is still fun for me. :-) Cheers!… Expand
  16. Zombieskittles
    Oct 26, 2014
    7
    Despite a shaky release that made it look more like a cash-grab than a game, Dungeon Keeper has slowly evolved to be a decent Clash of Clans style game that offers a unique style due to it's setting. You can actually plan where the enemy has to travel in your dungeon, allowing for another level of strategy in your defense.

    While it is not the best game, it is still fun.
  17. TrueNubin
    Oct 15, 2014
    7
    Ok the main reason for much of the hate for this game is this,

    Dungeon Keeper 1 and Dungeon Keeper 2 had these games not happened then this game would be a great addition to any phone!, unfortunately these games have been made, there for creating a pay2play game out of a classic brings the ire of the world! if you played the original games, don't get this game!! infact go on    Ok the main reason for much of the hate for this game is this,

    Dungeon Keeper 1 and
    Dungeon Keeper 2

    had these games not happened then this game would be a great addition to any phone!,
    unfortunately these games have been made, there for creating a pay2play game out of a classic brings the ire of the world!

    if you played the original games, don't get this game!! infact go on gog.com and buy the pc games,
    if you haven't played the originals then have fun!    … Expand
  18. Tubey
    Sep 24, 2014
    0
    I don't give zero scores pretty much at all. Every game, even if utterly broken and a mess like the famous Big Rigs, or outright dreadful like Ride to Hell: Retribution, still has to score at least 1 based on being playable and a game in the first place.

    The reason Dungeon Keeper on mobile device gets a zero from me is because it isn't a game. It's an app that requests money for you for    I don't give zero scores pretty much at all. Every game, even if utterly broken and a mess like the famous Big Rigs, or outright dreadful like Ride to Hell: Retribution, still has to score at least 1 based on being playable and a game in the first place.

    The reason Dungeon Keeper on mobile device gets a zero from me is because it isn't a game. It's an app that requests money for you for no reason. If Dungeon Keeper is a game, then a corrupt charity would be classed as a game, as they'd request money from you for no reason.

    So yes, this is the lowest of the low. The very fact it has the Dungeon Keeper licence sickens me to my stomach.    … Expand
  19. Konoki5k
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    I was stupid excited about Dungeon Keeper for IOS until I downloaded it. The tutorial was nice got me right into the game then the time sink hit. This is not the game I was hoping for and quite honestly I would have paid $60 easy for a true remake with updated graphics and the ability to run it on my PC. You have to buy gems for everything or wait till your bones get old and brittle. ThisI was stupid excited about Dungeon Keeper for IOS until I downloaded it. The tutorial was nice got me right into the game then the time sink hit. This is not the game I was hoping for and quite honestly I would have paid $60 easy for a true remake with updated graphics and the ability to run it on my PC. You have to buy gems for everything or wait till your bones get old and brittle. This was a complete failure and grab for money. Congrats on jumping on the "Me too" bandwagon and creating a complete failure. You could have gotten my money up front and I would have bought and expansion but I'm not paying $100s to complete a game no matter how much I used to love it.… Expand
  20. Dusty_Hayes
    Aug 29, 2014
    0
    This game is pure garbage! All EA had to do was revamp the original or the second game to satisfy the fans, but instead they produce this shameless, cheeky, cash grab of a farce and has completely trashed the Dungeon Keeper series.
  21. MassAI_deekay
    Aug 10, 2014
    1
    A games designer once told me, that the purpose of the A.I. in their games was "to challenge the player, and then let that player WIN." This was done out of obligation to the player who had bought their game. One might call it a mutual agreement : if you bought one of their games, it was their sworn duty to entertain you, and then give you the satisfaction of beating the game.

    In    A games designer once told me, that the purpose of the A.I. in their games was "to challenge the player, and then let that player WIN." This was done out of obligation to the player who had bought their game. One might call it a mutual agreement : if you bought one of their games, it was their sworn duty to entertain you, and then give you the satisfaction of beating the game.

    In Dungeon keeper, the tables have turned.
    This game was not designed with the player in mind, and the purpose of the AI is now to challenge the player, and then let that player PAY. This alone gives an unappetizing taste to the game.

    The game itself is less than spectacular. It is an unimaginative clone of every tower defense game that has been around for years. There is not much to do, there is very little challenge, and you can't lose the game.

    Dungeon keeper has the usual pay-wall timers, where you wait for hours for anything to happen, unless you bypass them by the waving of your magic credit card. Regardless of whether you decide to hurl cash at the game or not, it does not make much of a difference - you are still treading stale water.

    I give the game a score of 1 out of 10, because the graphics and voice-acting are both surprisingly good.
    The remaining 9 of 10 are pure disregard for the player.    … Expand
  22. VenysGames
    Jul 28, 2014
    0
    7 year old's whose parents put smart phones in their hands are the catalyst of EA's continuous experiment to test just how much idiots are willing to pay for things that flash on a screen. That is all these apps are, not games in the slightest, just a greedy company taking advantage of undeveloped brains. This has truly marked EA as the scum of the industry for me, and as a result, I7 year old's whose parents put smart phones in their hands are the catalyst of EA's continuous experiment to test just how much idiots are willing to pay for things that flash on a screen. That is all these apps are, not games in the slightest, just a greedy company taking advantage of undeveloped brains. This has truly marked EA as the scum of the industry for me, and as a result, I encourage the boycotting of EA products until these industry destroying practices are stopped. EA could come out with a genuine 10/10 masterpiece game in the future and I will never play it ; so long as it has the EA logo on it, I would't dare support the game with a cent of my money.… Expand
  23. dricks
    Jul 10, 2014
    0
    You pay, you dig.
    You pay, you dig.
    "You mean, the main goal is to dig ?"
    No, i mean, the main goal is to pay.
    Boring and useless, you should forget this one and play the real dungeaon keeper on PC, one of my greatest game ever.
  24. KBEX
    Jun 23, 2014
    8
    Dungeon Keeper is a great game! Graphics, sound and gameplay are great. And the EA business model in itself is understandable....
    But the speedup prices are about twentyfold of what they should be. I don't object to paying average prices, but the game deserves to have gamers use the cheats and hacks available on the net. Enjoy! ;)
  25. trollguyreviews
    Jun 1, 2014
    0
    Money stealing cash printing developers abuse what freemium is like an entire day to mine a block? The old days of dungeon keeper only takes a few seconds to mine a block. And one message to EA. MONEY DOESNT GROW ON TREES!
  26. shoreline
    May 15, 2014
    10
    This game is great fun if you adjust many of your expectations about the game you're playing. If you don't mind playing a game for a few minutes out of every hour, with mechanics otherwise very similar to dungeon keeper you will enjoy playing this game.

    If you basically wanted to play DK1 or 2 on your phone, or while on public transport, or away from a power source, you will be disappointed.
  27. mmagic
    May 2, 2014
    9
    Right now this is my favorite game on Android. I'm an old gamer that enjoyed a lot the entire series DK1 and DK2.
    The mobile version is a disappointing in the sense that it lost the feeling of being bad and the fast peace game play. But I ignore those 2 points and focus on what the game offers.
    I can see that the fast peace game-play is still there when I do raids. The strategy aspect    Right now this is my favorite game on Android. I'm an old gamer that enjoyed a lot the entire series DK1 and DK2.
    The mobile version is a disappointing in the sense that it lost the feeling of being bad and the fast peace game play. But I ignore those 2 points and focus on what the game offers.

    I can see that the fast peace game-play is still there when I do raids. The strategy aspect is very important and is found there in the defense of your base, in how you put your dungeon defense, how you trick the minds of other player to chose a certain route which is looking safe but makes them loose their army fast because of well placed traps or tricking their units to walk on long corridors of spikes, or get them in death rooms where cannon, freeze, lightning, burn trap, mushroom and door combine their forces with some attacking rooms and can obliterate and entire army in seconds.

    Doing raids specially involves fast strategic thinking to be able to circumvent traps and to get to the dungeon heart or sometimes just to be happy with plundering as many resources as possible without wining the battle. Sometimes you have to distribute your forces all over the dungeon, sometimes you have too drop all of them at once, sometimes you put some strong units to tank while mags kill without being focused. Sometimes you resurrect and entire army with new skeleton. Sometimes you disable their antiaerian traps with magic to let your ghost get in, disable some freeze traps or shock traps. Sometimes you need to break a few walls with magic.

    Then it's the resource management, which building should I make first? And here is the problem of spending the money because it's true that without spending money the game will take a huge amount of time. But see the bright part! often the best past part of a trip is not to get at the end as fast as possible but to enjoy the great walk and great sights until the end. Strategically planing the building and the feeling of one more day till it end, one more hour.

    Also the social part of having a nice guild can quickly make the game great or ruin it. Also being part of a guild has a lot to do with charity, you help the guild with donations and the guild helps you with support and nice bonuses.

    What I love about the game is that you can concentrate about other activities, you can live your life and dedicate to it as much time as you want and you will be fine without a lot of raids the gold in mines will accumulate during the 8 hours of protection after a lost raid and you will still be able to upgrade things.
    When you have no resources to build just put your imps to dig or build mines and storages which require few resources and a lot of build time.

    I like that EA comes with periodical updates which add new mechanics and now we have even a tournament.    … Expand
  28. JPartha
    Apr 29, 2014
    2
    A Pay-To-Win Dead End: The game is developed by very inexperienced interns who are in way over their heads, and suffers from severe issues regarding performance, network connectivity/stability, very flawed game design/imbalances, and a Pay-To-Win philosophy. If you know and like Dungeon Keeper, I recommend checking it out for the style & voice-overs. It can be enjoyable for a short while,A Pay-To-Win Dead End: The game is developed by very inexperienced interns who are in way over their heads, and suffers from severe issues regarding performance, network connectivity/stability, very flawed game design/imbalances, and a Pay-To-Win philosophy. If you know and like Dungeon Keeper, I recommend checking it out for the style & voice-overs. It can be enjoyable for a short while, but ultimately the flaws become very clear as you progress, it's a dead end. Anybody can defeat you if they are simply willing to spend a little money to do so. I highly recommend not wasting any money on it. Each update keeps making it worse and EA has no intention of giving it the proper respect it deserves. If you simply want a good game of this type, there are far better choices by competent developers.… Expand
  29. Blackwater
    Apr 26, 2014
    0
    24 hours for a block? Oh, I can do that in a second if I pay 10 euros? GG. This is the new EA, microtransactions. Worse than them buying up good studios and closing them down one after another.
  30. Lolzified
    Apr 5, 2014
    3
    Only Electronic Arts could make such a horrible, awful cash-grab. I just can't believe how anyone could let this game be released... But it's EA, so what do you expect?
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 13 out of 22
  1. Gamer.nl
    Feb 19, 2014
    10
    Dungeon Keeper is a new mobile free to play game by EA, and one of the most aggressive games in the genre. It has elements of a game, but these are so well hidden beneath shiny buttons, childish images and tons of tough rock, that it’s better to avoid the dungeon altogether.
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  2. SpazioGames
    Feb 17, 2014
    40
    The game is heavily influenced by the in-app purchases, to the point of becoming a pay-to-play title. Don't Play it.
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  3. Gamereactor Denmark
    Feb 15, 2014
    10
    Dungeon Keeper is an anti-game. It sucks the joy of gaming out of me and it has no redeeming qualities, not in the slightest. Calling it greedy would be understatement of the year. The already tarnished image of free-to-play could hardly receive a more devastating blow than that which Dungeon Keeper has given it. It eats at my soul every time I play it. And that's why I'll uninstall, nay, banish it from my tablet as soon as I've finished this sentence.
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