Summary

• Dungeon Keeper is a cult classic in the dungeon-building genre for its humor and gameplay.
• Different dungeon-building games like Dungeon Maker and CDO2: Dungeon Defense offer unique twists on the genre.
• Titles like Loop Hero and War for The Overworld provide fresh experiences in dungeon creation.

When it launched in 1997, it wasn't immediately apparent that Dungeon Keeper would become the cult classic that it is today. Nevertheless, th✤e tigh𒈔t gameplay, keen sense of humor, and buttery-smooth voicework of Richard Ridings made Dungeon Keeper an experience that many studios try to recapture even now.

Dungeon bꦐuilders are a unique sub-genre in the world of strategy. They are usually characterized by strategic use of zoning or rooms, a penchant for amoral capitalism - or downright evilness - and top-down gameplay where minions carry out your orders for you - often in their own time. Let's take a look at some of the best.

Updated on October 27, 2024, by William Quick: The spooky season grows in strength and that means the desire to explore spooky places and go on spooky adventures continues to grow. Of all these places, the dungeon is a classic environment for all sorts of adventures to take place. Usually, we need to depend on designers to create such dungeons for us to explore, but sometimes we just want to make our own. To get at that dungeon-building bug that's buzzing around your ear, check out these titles.

12 D𝔍ungeon Maker

It's In The Name

• Release date: March 4, 2018
• Platforms: iOS and Android

If you're going into the gaming career of making dungeons for whatever purpose, you'd beꦚst start your training with that position in the title. Dungeon Maker comes from Game Coaster, and it makes things pretty simple: You need to mak♓e a dungeon. Your role is that of an unseen overseer who has full control of the dungeon and everything within it.

You've got to cover all the bases to make a dungeon that endures all sorts of assaults from ambitious heroes. You need to pick a Dark Lord to serve as ꦯthe boss and share power across the dungeon, monsters to populate all the empty spaces to stand guard, traps to wear down intruders, and mystical objects to infuse your dungeon with mysterious magics. Move your facilities all around to make the best and most dangerous dungeon possible!

11 CDO2: Dungeon Defen♎se ꦍ

Dungeons Mean Business

• Release date: November 30, 2022
• Platform: iOS and Android

Just because dungeons are viewed as cold, desolate, and deadly places meant to cultivate despair🍸, doesn't mean that they can't be successful. CDO2: Dungeon Defense by Brave Beginners takes things in a more managerial direction by appointing you the new CDO (Chief Dungeon Officer). That's right, the Demon King is counting on you to run his dungeon and to run it well.

Before retirement can be achieved, you need to keep the dungeon functional for over 50 years. You're going to need to get your hands dirty and micromanage to make sure everything in the dungeon is running smoothly. All the monsters need ⭕to have their proper positions and the right equipment for the job. You've got plenty of relics to place around and a whole lab to research new ways to keep intruders out or make sure they never leave.

10 Loop Hero

Build The Trials For Your Hero

• Release date: March 4, 2021
• Platforms: iOS, Android, PC, and Xbox

Some of the best heroes in gaming are such because they've endured more dungeons than any of us will ever see in our lifetimes, but they can also view dungeons as training. This is the route taken in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Loop Hero by Four Quarters, where 16🍒8澳洲幸运5开奖网:the hero needs the dungeon🧜s to get stronger. You're on their side while also working agains💟t them.

The universe is falling⛦ apart thanks to a being called the Lich and you have the power to bring lands back into existence through the use of magic tiles. The♊se tiles will put down land, regions, structures, and treasures along a path the hero will follow. They will fight the monster born from your tiles to reap the benefits from each victory, hoping to get stronger to challenge the Lich and the other beings of destruction.

9 Impire

An Empire Of Imps

• Release date: February 14, 2013
• Platform: PC

Cyanide Montreal took the idea that it's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fun to play as the villains and ran with it. Impire is a strategy game that really hearkens back to the key building blocks of the dungeon builder that started it all. This game has you building rooms and traps, r🌸ecruiting creatures, and defeating any heroes who will stand in your way.

The story of Impire is nothing to write home about, but the idea of a demon who wishes to rebuild his nefarious empire is a tried a tested one. This title will really appeal to the fans who simply want more of what they൩ know they ꦓlike.

8 Evil♕ Genius 2: World Domination 💛

Be The Classic Movie Villain

• Release date: March 30, 2021
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Evil Genius 2 and its predecessor task you with creating🎐 underground lairs stacked with traps and decadence in the form of a grand casino. In these games, the good guys take the form of secret agents whose goal is to take you down, and you have plenty of resources to halt them in their path - usually in humorous fashions.

Taking over the world requires strategic know-how when it comes to building your base within iﷺts limited confines, and the expert direction of your evil henchmen. While many fans loudly prefer the original game in the series, the second title still holds up and scratches that evil itch.

7 🐼 🌌 Going Medieval

Old School Is Good School

• Release date: June 1, 2021
• Platform: PC

While this charming and peaceful game doesn't immediately strike most as a dungeon-building game, it absolutely can be. It's quite simple to build your new settlement right onto the earth and create a sprawling, productive underground c✱ity.

This can be quite a good strategy when it comes time to fꦡace off against rai🌄ders, who will fall victim to traps and archers as they muddle their way down your halls. Like many open-ended building games, Going Medieval is what you make of it - and the experience is only likely to get better as its Early Access campaign continues.

6 🎃 Spacebase꧒ Startopia

Dungeons... In Space!

• Release date: March 26, 2021
• Platform: PC

Taking th𒉰e dungeon-building mechanics and transporting th༒em into space made Startopia quite a success in its day, and now we have the revival of the series with Spacebase Startopia. In this game, you must build and run three separate decks - one for survival, one for attracting tourists, and one for accruing the resources needed to run the station.

Not only that, but you can compete with other space stati🃏ons and fend off would-be attackers - it's everything a dungeon-builder normally has but in space this time!

5 𓆏 Dungeonꦏs 3

Third Time's The Charm

• Release date: October 13, 2017
• Platform: PC, PlayStation, Xbox

For those who enjoy the experience of building dungeons but feel it may be getting a little stale, Dungeons 3 really shakes things up by seamlessly blending rea♈l-time strategy elements into the game. Not only does this game have you doing the usual room-building and creature-attracting, but you'll be venturing into the overworld with your hor♔de to ruin the day of any well-aligned creature who crosses your path.

Add to that a really strong sense of humor and a genui♈nely challenging campaign that has replay value thanks to acꦜhievements, and you have a great game on your hands.

4 𒊎 Empires Of 𝐆The Undergrowth

Weaving Within The Earth

• Release date: December 1, 2017
• Platform: PC

Empires of the Undergrowth ꦏwas in Early Access for a long time, but that extra time to cook has proven worth it. It is a very refreshing take on dungeon-building that brands itself as an ant colony m🍌anagement simulator.

Empires of the Undergrowth have you directing ants to💛 dig out burrows, collect food, and ra♌ise a brood of new ants. It has quite a realistic design that may have the squeamish turned off but will thrill anyone looking for a delightfully fresh experience in the strategy market.

3 War For The Overworl🌃d

Build Under To Take Over

• Release date: April 2, 2015
• Platform: PC

Launched after a successful Kickstarter that promised the game to be a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:true Dungeon Keeper successor, this game has proven that it lives up to that name. War fo🎐r the Overworld has you digging out a dungeon to fill with rooms and creatures, and fighting heroes who would lo🃏ve to stop you.

This game has a great difficulty curve and feels great to play through, even for veterans of the genre. And there's aꦅ lot to be said for securing the talent o✱f Richard Ridings to play the narrator, playing on nostalgia brilliantly for Dungeon Keeper fans.