Dwelvers
————————— EARLY ACCESS WARNING: THIS GAME IS STILL IN ALPHA, EARLY ACCESS STATE. YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER BUGS. YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER CTD’S AND YOU MIGHT GET FRUSTRATED. BUT, IF YOU BUY THIS GAME, YOU WILL ALSO HAVE THE CHANCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHAPING OF A GREAT GAME ————————–
Dwelvers is a real time strategy game where The player takes the role of an evil Dungeon Lord who guide its minions through building their own dungeon, below and above the surface. Manage elaborate production chains, cater to the needs and quirks of each monster and lead them to battles against other monsters and pathetic humans.
The most challenging part for the player will be creating an advanced production system so as to have enough food to keep the creatures well fed, enough weapons and armour to outfit their army as a force to be reckoned with, and of course enough beer to keep them satisfied with you as their master. A drunk minion is a happy minion! The theme of the game will have a lot of dark humour, and each creature will have its own personality, demands and fighting style; forcing the player to handle all the creatures in different ways in order to max out their potential. A happy minion is a useful minion!
Features:
- Multi Layered dungeon: The dungeons are not only scary, they are also deep!
- Free form room building: Set the size and shape of your rooms and build the inside of them. no run-of-the-mill pre designed rooms, your dungeons is uniquely yours!
- Monsters equipment: Craft and equip different weapons and armours for your creatures. some of those weapons can only be found through looting enemy rooms.
- Below and Above surface: In Dwelvers, you will have the option of raiding above surface human settlements and seamlessly transit between the surface and below.
- Extended production system will see you managing the production of several resources in evil efficiency
- Hydraulics system that allows players to build elaborated traps and dynamically changing walls that are triggered by pressure plates.
- Trade with off map settlements by capturing portals.
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
Having owned and followed Dwelvers for years, there have been its ups and downs, Rasmus works on the game primarily solo and despite people calling the game abandonware at times, he has continued to work on it, solo. The game is really good and definitely not abandoned, please give it a shot.
Graphics are great, gameplay is fun.
Steam User 6
So there is a whole game here now. A charming ode to the dungeon keeper genre but with a Z axis and a complex resource based economy. Features a powerful editor and random map generator. Set your traps, rally the piggehs, go ham on the overworld.
Steam User 6
Let's address the elephant in the room, the bad reviews, most of them focus on the developer's hiatus and bugs, however on December 19, 2023 they released 1.0, all the bugs are patched (at least it hasn't happened to me). none of those mentioned have come out), second, the game is easy to learn and fun, it is like an underground RimWorld (or settlers), it has Z levels which means different heights.
If you like building dungeons, get it, it's entertaining and worth a shot
Steam User 2
Game went on hiatus, now there's updates! Fun Dungeon Keeper esque game, and with more updates it may end up being a very strong modern entry for the genre!
Steam User 6
I was worried when I initially bought the game because it was in early access.
And I'm glad it's finally released and I've not come across a bug to date. The UI could use some TLC but overall it's a solid game that lives up to the Dungeon Keeper like experience.
Steam User 6
Been thoroughly addicted to this. Blends Dungeon Keeper, Minecraft and resource management simulators. I bought in after the game was out of early access and in full release. I greatly appreciate the developer's labour of love. This game is utterly amazing for something done by one person. I wish the dev the best of success with this, he deserves to go Platinum with this <3
Steam User 7
A lot of the reviews about this game are because there were some bugs and for a while a hiatus. I get it, no one likes vaporware. And no one likes paying for a game to find it abandoned. The LONE developer though has returned and fixed may bugs. He has also increased performance and promises FOUR NEW UPDATES for 2024. I've followed this game for years now and I feel like the developer is doing everything he can to keep this baby of his alive. So far I don't think his efforts are in vain.