Dungeons 3
Through enticing the dark elf priestess Thalya from the fluffy clutches of the surface world to become his chief lieutenant, the Dungeon Lord has found a way to direct his campaign of conquest from the confines of his underground lair. With Thalya on the front line, and the united forces of evil to support her, players will have to use every trick in the book to best those do-gooders of the overworld, once and for all! Unleash your dark side by creating a unique underground dungeon from a huge array of rooms, traps and structures. Raise the most terrifying army the world has ever seen, by choosing from despicable creatures such as orcs, succubae, zombies and much, much more. Then, once you have built your forces, emerge from the darkness and guide your army to the light of the overworld, where you will corrupt the land and dispatch anything even vaguely heroic, cute or unicorn-shaped.
Game Discussion
Steam User 23
It is rather mid, but there is not much competition in the dungeon keeper genre so it is servisable.
I started on hell difficulty right away, because Dungeons 2 felt way too easy to me, and finished the main campaign on it.
It was kinda too simplistic still. At first, you start it, you try to play slow and develop your dungeon, but you are quickly overwhelmed by constantly growing waves of high lvl enemies. Then you realise, ok I just rush them with basically starting army instead, and that solved the majority of the game for me. Just do the same thing about 20 times and you win the game.
Basically only two missions in the campaign asked for some adjustments. Both in the very end. One was hardcoded for anti-rush - they barely attack you if you don't attack them, but start pushing from all sides if you do, so you have infinite time to dig-in. And one mission required to rush objective instead of fully clearing the overworld, which is basically just rush harder. And there are couple of no base missions, but those are kinda easy by design in all strategies anyway.
So the game doesn't really offers you the situations to use the tools it gives you, and it all feels rather badly thought out and clunky.
Writing is too riddled with direct references to other IPs. It will age very fast, like in 10 years noone will get what they yapping about. And it kinda wasn't too klever to begin with, just memberberries basically. Other then that it wasn't too bad.
Intermission "cutscenes" are a cheap parody of cheapness, there is no style to it, it is just bad. Just render some sketches on the game engine if you don't have budget like DK2 did. Anything would be better.
Guess I'm not a fan of cartoonish style here in general, I'd like the game to be more dark, bloody, sexy and violent.
But for the time being I'll have to stick to what I can get. Despite all mentioned above, I'll by the next game, Dungeons 4, but I'm waiting for at least 70% discount on that.
Steam User 6
Beat main campaign, most missions on hellish.
Game is pretty fun. Really scratched that modern dungeon keeper feeling as well as just being a good RTS. A must play if you're looking for that, it's a shame it took me this long to notice. The campaign definitely dripfed the tech tree so it wasn't until later levels that I felt like there was more flexibility in strategy. Definitely requires some strategic thinking
If it really irks you, you can go into the settings and turn down the voice acting. I personally had no issue with it and I thought the VAs did a decent job. Not all the humour landed, lots of jokes that were just a reference to something else. There were some levels where the narrators ribbing about my struggles were funny though I could see someone being upset by this. I also felt the absence of the light hearted tone the narration fostered towards the end of the campaign when it got more serious.
Steam User 10
Exactly like Dungeon Keeper, which is excellent. If it aint broken, dont fix it.
Steam User 4
If you need a new Dungeon Keeper game but every five minutes the narrator from The Stanley Parable drops maybe the least funny jokes imaginable until they become funny because of how lame they are, I highly endorse this project. Also you can play this co-op and it's actually really fun to split responsibilities between the overworld and the underworld.
Steam User 4
I decided to try this game because Dungeons 4 had just launched and i didn't want to drop 50 bucks on a game i wasn't sure about. I got Dungeons 3 instead. I have cleared the full campaign and have since added the DLC packs to my library. It is a great game, very fun with a fairly easy learning curve.
Lots of humor and the missions are fun. Its one of the few games that i beat and would still consider going back and playing through again. Also plenty more to do if you just want to play skirmish matches.
I feel like there may be too many upgrades available after you can start researching them. Very easy for me to spend a couple of hours on each mission when it would probably take no more than 30 minutes to clear it normally.
I have not tried it co op yet, but i hope that i can do that soon.
Steam User 3
I feel Dungeons 3 and War for the overworld are two games closely resembling the classic dungeons keeper. Both are great games. Dungeons 2 was kinda good as well but it was way too short. Dungeons 1 was not good at all. I guess third time's the charm.
Dungeons 3 has two maps, one for your dungeon and the other where you need to go up and wreck shit to complete the game. I think this is one of the different ways to add more features to the existing dungeon keeper play style. The story is a parody that's very loosely based on Warcraft 3 campaign, with the usual 4th wall breaking and pop culture references. If you liked dungeon keeper, i think this is a great game to spend 20+ hours in.
Steam User 2
Enjoyed it once I stuck with it for more than a hour here and there. I own thousands of games and I only have finished maybe 50 to 100. IT could be less. I've never counted. So for me to finish a game is really giving it a lot of thumbs up. If your looking for something different than the norm this is worth a try but wait for a sale. Read other review for game details. It did come out 7 years ago so don't understand the regular asking price of $30.