Abstract: The new game Dungeons from Kalypso Media starts in a pretty intriguing way — you are an all powerful Dungeon Lord named Deimos and have a powerful demoness, Calypso, as your girlfriend. Of course, demons being demons, she betrays you, takes over your d...
Abstract: From a game design viewpoint, nostalgia can be a tricky needle to thread. By paying homage to a classic title, games can combine those grand old memories with fresh new ideas to create truly enjoyable experiences. Or, if the title fails to live up to i...
Abstract: It's no big secret that Dungeons was marketed as the heir apparent to the Dungeon Keeper series. The look of the game in screenshots, the trailers and even the taglines ("Be Evil and Feel Good" vs. "Evil is Good") are so similar, it's hard not to expec...
Dungeons allows players to create their own personal hell, fill it full of do-gooders, and torture them. You will find a game that plays like a couple of great gaming franchises rolled into one, but the package is very enjoyable. Good graphics and fun...
Dungeons is a fun but deceptively shallow Sim-RPG-thing that would have benefitted from pushing the envelope for either genre a little more. The creativity of its premise is never fully fleshed out but offers moments of genuinely unique fun. Although t...
Kalypso Media and Realmforge Studios have brought us the newest incarnation in the evil overlord game genre with their newest release, Dungeons. In Dungeons, you are the evil overlord in charge of, wait for it, a dungeon filled with monsters and trea...
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Published: 2011-02-17, Author: Rob , review by: techworld.com
Dungeons has enough humour and variety to overcome its shortcomings, and the campaign throws enough curve balls at the player to make up for its strategic shallowness. It could have better pacing and a little more variety, but as it is, Dungeons is a ...
Long single player campaign w/ 20 missions; Wide array of objects, traps and monsters to populate your dungeon;
Not enough control over minions; Game play can become repetitive; no multiplayer modeThe concept of Dungeons is not unique, in fact the game has many striking similarities with the Dungeon Keeper series which, like Dungeons, puts you in control of dungeon lord as you create and populate a dungeon to conquer the heroes and adventurers who enter. With that said, if you're looking for a spiritual su
Dungeons does have it's shortcomings, as mentioned before the game can get quite repetitive with having your dungeon lord race through the dungeon going after every hero. The game also lacks direct control over the monsters that you place and has miss...
Abstract: Some of you reading this review are no doubt fans of Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper, a game that even cursory research suggests that Kalypso’s Dungeons is clearly paying homage to. Sadly, I have no experience with that game and can only relate my experience...
