Finished the campaign and the custom maps today; my thoughts...
Dungeons is aimed at fans of the Dungeon Keeper series, but the game is as far as one can get from DK/DK2 without leaving the Fantasy-Villain-Sets-Up-Shop subgenre (maybe it's a sub-subgenre).
Some gameplay elements:
- no creature management, spawning pentagrams are used instead
- heroes are effectively customers that accumulate soul energy to be harvested later
- your avatar/character/dungeon lord/etc gains skills and attribute points, adding an rpg tag
- minor strategy elements, mostly herding heroes around by leaving trails of decorations (which require soul energy to purchase)
- creature lairs must be found and cannot be built
- single player campaign with custom maps, 3x sandbox maps
Dungeons is basically a business sim with a fresh coat of paint. I'm just posting this to let people know what they're getting actually buying. It's not an awful game (I give it a 68), but the advertising is way off.
The game took a massive beating on reviews over at Amazon. (LINK) Though the general verdict seems the same, essentially being advertised as something of a sequel or hommage to Dungeon Keeper and failing horribly on many accounts... seemingly even failing as entertaining on it's own merits without biased comparison.
I have not played the game, but at $40 I'm willing to take the advice (including the OPs), that this is not what I'm looking for. I think I'll just load up Dungeon Keeper or Overlord and be completely satisfied. :)
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I'm glad I saw this review. I was a huge Dungeon Keeper fan and had been intending to pick this game up, even at the $40 price tag(I actually had excitedly pointed it out to a few friends of mine prior to its release too).
It does sound like something that could be enjoyable, but is not what I would have been expecting at all. I will wait for the price to drop bit before I nab this one.
Thanks
Sounds like I was in the same boat. LOOOOOOVE LoveLoveLoved Dungeon Keeper so I freaked when I saw this. Got the demo as soon as I could. Tired to like it... tried real hard.
Wonder if I can just find Dungeon Keeper on Good Old Games or something...