The latter must be built over time by meeting a hero’s needs, and different heroes have different needs. The former is ready for the taking as soon as a hero walks through a dungeon entrance. There are two main currencies: gold and the aforementioned Soul Energy. The core of the game is dungeon management. Fortunately, he has a trusted old goblin to provide guidance along the way.

So, he must claw his way back up, or back down to be more precise, the dungeon hierarchy and regain his place. Well, he was Prince of the Underworld until the worst breakup in dungeon lord history: His ex-girlfriend Calypso deviously ousted him and took his place as the supreme dungeon lord. I have, however, played Evil Genius, which is a similar type of game, but different from both Dungeons and Dungeon Keeper in some major ways.ĭungeons follows the Prince of the Underworld, a dungeon lord of the highest order.

I don’t know if that’s actually the case, since, like I said, I haven’t played Dungeon Keeper. Those who have been following Dungeons know that it’s supposedly a spiritual successor to the 1997 dungeon management game. You see, that gold and those weapons and scrolls aren’t left by adventurers they’re strategically placed by dungeon lords to, wait for it, harvest Soul Energy.īefore I continue, I should make one thing clear: I haven’t played Dungeon Keeper or its sequel. But then I would think: why did those adventurers go into the dungeon? How did the treasure they were after get there? Were there adventurers before them? The whole thing would spiral into a chicken-egg situation: Which came first, the adventurer or the treasure? That’s when my head would start to hurt.īut finally, Kalypso Media has explained the whole situation and allayed my pain with the simulation, role-playing game Dungeons.

There are swords and shields and mithril plate mails, not to mention magic scrolls and books.īut how does all that stuff get there? I always thought it was all left by other adventurers who maybe should’ve leveled up a bit more before venturing forth. Why? Well, there’s gold down there – lots of gold. I’ve spent a good amount of my in-game life wandering through caves, crypts, and dungeons full of goblins and ogres and animated skeletons.

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