Dungeon Keeper: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Dungeon Keeper (1997) is a real time strategy (rts), strategy video game developed by Bullfrog Productions, available on PC, Mac, DOS. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 47/100 on IGDB.

What is Dungeon Keeper about?

Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from invading 'hero' characters intent on stealing the player's accumulated treasures and killing various monsters. This was Peter Molyneux's final project with Bullfrog before he left the company in August 1997 to form Lionhead Studios.

The player uses a mouse, represented in-game as a hand, to interact with a bar on the left-hand side of the screen, allowing them to select which rooms to build and which spells to cast. The player can also use the hand to pick up creatures and objects in the dungeon and carry them around, allowing for tactics such as gathering an assault force and dropping off the creatures en masse once a foothold has been established. The hand also allows the player to "slap" objects and thereby interact with them: creatures will hurry up whe

Key details

Dungeon Keeper was released in 1997 and supports single player, multiplayer. Platforms: PC, Mac, DOS. Developer: Bullfrog Productions.

Should you play Dungeon Keeper?

Reviews are mixed, but Dungeon Keeper retains a dedicated player base among real time strategy (rts), strategy fans.