Dungeon Keeper

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0.3

Overwhelming dislike- based on 624 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 624
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 624
  3. Negative: 604 out of 624
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  1. Wolfie1987
    Mar 24, 2014
    0
    We live in a world where sociopaths and psychopaths rule us (banks, corporations, corrupt politicians, con artists, corrupt judicial systems, messed up ideologies that try to control people, etc.). Video games are meant to create virtual worlds where you can escape to. Alas no escapism allowed, as morally bankrupt companies such as EA are poisoning virtual reality as well. For shame.
  2. 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
  3. 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!
  4. Gorrister
    Feb 6, 2014
    0
    HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
  5. veilex
    Feb 16, 2014
    0
    EA took everything that made this game fun, and put it behind a pay-wall. As a direct result, this game lacks anything approaching a fun factor. Very sad to see.
  6. GvS
    Mar 9, 2014
    0
    Another pay to win scheme from EA, worst company of the year, for many years. This is not real game, avoid it if possible and play old Dungeon Keeper 2.
  7. 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.
  8. KennyTWD
    Feb 10, 2014
    0
    Worst game ever! It's even worse than Big Rigs and Ride to Hell Retribution and I gave those both zeros!
    Hell, the user score of Cod Ghosts makes this game look like a pushover... Excuse me I have to go meet Clementine in Telltale Games' The Walking dead episode 7: A house divided.
  9. SubaqueousDream
    Mar 11, 2014
    0
    I never thought a game could be so bad as to be worth a rating of 0/10. But somehow EA has managed such a feat with this "game". This is not F2P, it's a money grabbing scheme.
  10. DavidWarden
    Jan 11, 2015
    0
    I REALLY don't like this game .
  11. 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!
  12. 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?
  13. fazi
    Feb 27, 2014
    0
    Waste of time! 1d to w8 for 1 block in game, attacking is a strange tower defense only, its a just micropayment UI and graphic is like for childs! (farmville?)
  14. Jasuder
    Mar 8, 2014
    0
    This is not a game, this is application to pay EA for nothing. They tried to make a 'free' to play tower defence from Dungeon Keeper but they failed. You can easier kill yourself than do something without using real money. Thx for nothing EA I'm going to find my CD with Dungeon Keeper 2 bye.
  15. Palkowski
    Mar 4, 2014
    10
    My favourite game on iOS. Very good graphics and sound. Gameplay is very addicting. I recommend this game for everybody. It is that FUN! Greetings form Lithuana!
  16. TheTinyMan
    Feb 19, 2014
    9
    So I was a huge fan of the older games. And the Internet is going to hate me for this - but I think I actually like the mobile game better than the originals. And I haven't dedicated a cent to it.

    The first thing to realize is that THIS IS NOT THE SAME GENRE AS THE OLD DUNGEON KEEPER GAMES. This is a mobile game built for short interactions. When I played Dungeon Keeper back in the    So I was a huge fan of the older games. And the Internet is going to hate me for this - but I think I actually like the mobile game better than the originals. And I haven't dedicated a cent to it.

    The first thing to realize is that THIS IS NOT THE SAME GENRE AS THE OLD DUNGEON KEEPER GAMES. This is a mobile game built for short interactions. When I played Dungeon Keeper back in the day, I basically just built huge rooms, learned how to get the Horned Reaper, and dropped my entire army on the heads of invaders and watched them win. (granted, I was a young kid at the time, and may not have grasped the complexities.)

    In this game, I find myself paying careful attention to the layout of my dungeon. This is for two reasons, One - I need it to be laid out well in order to deter and defeat intruders. Two - time is a resource I need to manage. And this, I think, is where people get hung up.

    There's a really good game here. Prioritizing which room to build or upgrade, picking which units to buy (by the way, I'm pretty sure producing a viable army after a major defeat is MUCH QUICKER in this game than in the classics), even engaging with my guild is a question of strategy, priority, and resource management.

    But time is a resource in this game. In most games, time is *just* an observation of your consumption of the product. In this game, it is itself a commodity, and I need to make strategic decisions about it. Kind of like I do in Starcraft, only they're bigger chunks of time. All the claims I've heard of people taking 24 hours to mine out a single block sound to me like an abject refusal to consider your time tactically. I've never mined out a 24 hour block. I only mine out 4 hour blocks when my imps are bored and have nothing else to do. Normally, when I'm mining, I'm just mining the 3 second blocks, which are by FAR the most common ones. With the speed bonus from beating my imps, my imps are mining at about the speed that I'm tapping if I have two of them freed up for digging.

    To me, the expected interactivity in this game isn't "pay to play" - it's "pay to skip the game." Or "pay to compete even if you suck." Yes, if you're drawing from an infinite cash reserve, you will have advantages over other players - but I haven't seen a single opponent that's made me think, "this guy is way stronger than me," AND, "this guy has sunk a lot of money into the game." I don't know if that's a feature of the game's matchmaking, or simply a difference in who's spending the money. But getting a really good advantage, mining through a perimeter of the 24 hour squares, costs so much money I can't imagine anyone ever accomplishing it with money instead of time. Just for digging.

    I've been trying to find a play-in-short-bursts game that could hold me for more than two or three days, and Dungeon Keeper is the first one to achieve that. With features like refilling dug out passages (using the easy to dig through dirt, not restoring what as once there) and moving rooms around, I'd say that the game does credit to its genre and to the IP. But I can understand how everyone hates the genre-hop - I felt the same way when Warcraft tried to emulate EverQuest and left its RTS roots.

    Of course, my opinion wasn't the majority then, either. :-)    … Expand
  17. c3p
    Feb 7, 2014
    5
    Please let me pay for games and stop this micropayment ****
    I know they make more money atm, but _please_ try to think in the long term and start to sell this games complete for 5€ or something. (or sell two versions of the same game...)
  18. medv4380
    Feb 12, 2014
    7
    It's not a great game, but it isn't as much of a money grab as first impressions give. The money grab is in the purchase of Gems that can be used to speed up the game, or give you temporary bonuses. However, unlike most money grabs, the Gems can be easily obtained without spending money. Achievements give gems, and mining will randomly give gems. Mining out all the easy soft rock firstIt's not a great game, but it isn't as much of a money grab as first impressions give. The money grab is in the purchase of Gems that can be used to speed up the game, or give you temporary bonuses. However, unlike most money grabs, the Gems can be easily obtained without spending money. Achievements give gems, and mining will randomly give gems. Mining out all the easy soft rock first gives you another 50 to 100 gems on top of the start batch of gems. Like most games of this class it will appeal to mostly tetris lovers, but they might not recognize that it's that kind of a game. Over placing early is a problem for many people. Once building are placed you're stuck with them. They can be moved, but space is limited. Over placing early forces you to build thin walls which then makes you mad because you need space to mine out the harder rock which takes longer. A deconstruct option would be nice for people who've over placed, but that could be considered part of the game. Also a time strategy is important. I've seen too many people mine strait though the hardest rock and ignore that their was a path that was one tenth the time to mine out. Also upgrading storage before laying down another storage is very important to conserve space. Keeping your minerals low and learning how to raid the minerals you need for big purchases is a plus. When raiding you need to look to see if it will be cost effective. You need to earn enough Gold to replenish your army, and make a profit. Otherwise your just wasting time and gold on raids that you can win but won't profit from.… Expand
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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! ;)
  24. 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
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. 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.
  28. metrj
    Jan 12, 2023
    5
    hard to enjoy if you don't pay to play this game to be honest so it's disappointing
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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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