Dungeon Keeper 2 1999

Is it still worth playing?

Bullfrog Productions' 1999 real time strategy game for Windows, in which you run a dungeon as its keeper. The Horned Reaper enlists you to conquer the realms of Harmonia by removing the Portal Gems. It all starts from the Dungeon Heart, which regenerates mana, stores gold and produces Imps that dig, claim tiles and fortify walls. Gold pays for rooms, traps, doors and wages, while spells use mana. Your hand does the rest: it moves creatures, casts spells and interacts with items. Those creatures are not simply loyal, since they can rebel over lack of food, unpaid wages or being slapped. The campaign has twenty main levels, beside My Pet Dungeon, skirmish against AI keepers and multiplayer. Running a dungeon as its villain, down to the wages and food of your creatures, still gives it a character of its own today.