KeeperRL

I was swarming the world with legions of the undead... I then proceeded to have my kneecaps broken in by a lone dwarf with a hammer. 10/10 would get kneecapped again.

A nice, streamlined colony simulator for scratching that DF itch without having to spend hours configuring stockpiles and schedules. It is fun to build up an army of little ghoulies and rake them across the map. That said, after two playthroughs I think I'm done until there's more content.

anyone who likes turned based combat, crawling through dungeons, and losing long time loved heros, this ones for you!

You can make a helmet out of Cyclops testicles 10/10

actual shit

Rating: 7.3
Gameplay: Feels unfinished at this time but good
Story: None
Difficulty: Mixed, it can be hard.
Graphics: Pixel, not a fan of how things move. Reminds me of why I didn't enjoy Dwarf Fortress
Price: Only buy on sale
Bugs: None
Audience: Teen
Grind: Can be if you hardcore it
Misc: This is a game that is hard to get back into as it lacks the drawback

I'm instantly hooked. A little rough around the edges from a UI and QoL standpoint, but if you ever asked yourself what Dwarf Fortress would look like if it traded in its focus on logistics and engineering for a focus on all-out dungeon warfare (vs. challenging-enough PvE or the designs of the community) with some fun factional variety (and even more in the workshop!), don't hesitate.

Great game, highly recommended.

Absolutely love this game! I have almost 40 hours on this game but have been following it through different content creators for some time. Cannot recommend this game more and I hope even more content is on the way!!!

i recomed this game if your into stradegy games and also if your into D&D you will deffintely like this game

Probably the best dungeon builder i've played. There are a variety of themes to play, worship demons, or the devil, be a necromancer, an oppressive theocratic military state, a clan of dwarves, a lone gnome and the friends you can build, a horde of zombies, or a goblin fiefdom.

As you build, level up your keeper to unlock new technologies so that your influence can spread across the map. The technologies are fun and interesting. Breeding potioned-up succubi to produce legendary humanoids. Corrupting your own parish for help from the evil god. Binding angels to your service... I think? I've never gotten far as a knight.

As your power grows, your rivals will take notice and raid your dungeon, which is how I most frequently die. You can also die out on the field of battle if you're not careful, of course, but your keeper doesnt need to accompany his army for conquest.

When you win, you can retire your dungeon so that it can appear as an enemy in other people's games, and one such dungeon will appear in each run. If you decide not to retire you will be confronted with wave after wave of enemy from which to defend yourself.

It's super fun.

As wide as... a moderately sized lake, and as shallow as a puddle. Building your own dungeon ala dungeon keeper may sound like fun, but this game just doesn't give the concept justice. You'll be spending more of your time building armies rather than your dungeon. It's barely a dungeon builder at all when you start getting into the mechanics. Avoid.

The game is brilliant. Don't be discouraged by reviews of people who played for 4 hours.

Here are a few hints:

*) don't rush; there is no real reward for rushing villains; take your time until you get adamantium; this is especially important if you played earlier versions, the release version needs more patience;
*) enable waves; use a chokepoint and flanking to defeat them; this will give you plenty of tech experience with no risk; I use 3x3 room with stairs, and put my keeper and 7 minions there so enemies go strait into the 8-flanking trap; the keeper is important - enemies want to kill him;
*) you can reload autosave if something bad happens; just close the game window;
*) if you play with a prison, the best way to progress at the end game is to convert experienced enemies (100+ exp);
*) if you play with a prison, use dark elves or dwarves as slaves; periodically kill low-level slaves;
*) win a standard game first;
*) the dual-wielding (dark) knight, esp. with regen amulet, can beat anything in the early game; you also can cheat his death by closing the window (or just stop using it around thirty exp enemies);
*) the game has a lot of details; you can win without knowing them yet gradually learning them is very rewarding

Love this game. Cheers

Very fun and comprehensive game. there are many intricacies. If you like retro art style and 'dungeon keeper' management, definitely try it

Good idea for a game, not very well executed. Combat is a joke, lost more minions to them moving stupidly then anything.

yes

Awesome game and love the concept. It plays really well, and it's really engaging. Would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys building and civilization sims.

Great little medieval colony simulator for the price!

It's... ok...

Feels really shallow and the UI is pretty bad. I get that it's trying to mimic DF and Dungeon Keeper, but misses a lot of what makes those games great.

Still had some fun with it, but got repetitive quickly.

This is game is so much fun and plays great on steam deck. It’s pretty easy to get into, and you’ll have a handle on things once you’ve sunk a couple hours in. Highly recommend. Really happy there’s no meta progression too!!

One the best games I have played in a long time. At first it took me a while to figure out the best way to handle the combat but, one that was figured out I really fell in love with the game. It has all the elements I love-- Building, combat, colony simulator, and roleplay elements. This game allows you to build the story as events unfold! As an added bonus you can tell that the developer of this game truly loves their work by giving us constant updates and monitoring bugs and crashes.

Awesome game, but does still feel incomplete and some of the gameplay can feel unintuitive and unfair - still definitely recommend overall, especially if you're looking to get into dwarf fortress but can't be arsed with the admin of learning it

VERY tough but rewarding. I had thought my keeper was like a god onto to men. I wiped out hordes of undead and bandits, even barely beat a dragon. Yet a small snake(S) poisioned me and verily I died shitting my pants and bleeding from mine own eyes!

gud

wonderful game! want to be sauron? play this gem of a game. no fance graphics but still pretty imho. dont read, buy and play :-)

Obviously takes a lot of influence from DF, but lacks its depth. Borrows concepts that make no sense in its own world - my evil wizard kept writing obscene poems just because dwarfs in some other game did as well, my goblins liked to drink like dwarfs because that's how much the devs lack imagination.

The game progress is wonky. At first the player explores the caverns, builds a bunch of stuff, which is always fun, digging for resources, building rooms for minions just like in the Bullfrog's classic game. Then the speed bump hits, to progress and unlock more content, some obscure "research" is needed but at no point the game gives any hint where to get this "research", even if you build every room and item and workshop etc. you won't get more. I suppose at this point the player should have to form a party and go raiding the neighbors and steal their stuff. But that is the very problem of this game, it railroads you hard, it tells you how it wants to be played, there's hardly any player decisions to be made, the player just follows the script laid out by the devs. The beauty of this kind of games should be that every game can be different, the game should be an empty canvas for the player to paint on. Not so here, very little room to maneuver, very little content.

There are some positives, the graphics are quite good (for this genre), the user interface works decently (although I wonder why they have to refer to z-levels as such, yet another concept copied from DF without thinking, why not just call it "height" because it makes much more sense. Who is to say that upwards is -1 Z and not +1 Y anyway). Why does the player has to care how you have laid your data structures in the computer's memory?

I see the game has been in the progress for almost a decade. I would not hold my breath it will ever get finished to the point it will entertain you more than the 5 hours after you have seen 90% of it.

I tried playing this game but the frame rate is really weird was running way too slow the fact that it took about three minutes to even make the world was also a weird thing. I tried the option in the menu that said it would load the game faster at the start and even tried using the old school graphics but neither one would allow me to increase the frame rate and make the game run faster. What little of the game meaning just the tutorial that I played was actually kind of fun but for now I think I will try other games maybe sometime in the future there will be some of update that will make the game run better or maybe I will finally have a much better computer till then I will leave this review here for now.

It's a nice little game, HOWEVER, don't be fooled by the state of release.

This game is missing a crazy amount of features and is still pretty much in an early early access state.

Multiple factions that play 90% the same, use the same items, build identical dungeons.

You can get hours of gameplay out of it, however over time the amount of missing features and overall lack of polish stacks up.

Put the early access tag back on.

Not very complex I feel like I've seen all this game has to offer in under 2 hours.

10/10

As the name implies its Dungeon Keeper meets Rogue-like. Straight forward fun with reasonable UX, that has had a lot of care put into it.

Quick Summary: This game is an unbelievable amount of fun! I feel like the game could have been named: Hero's of Might and Magic Tycoon. If I had this game 30 years ago, it would have been the only game I played. Not the best for in-depth tutorials, but there is a lot of community support. Game can be punishing at times, but once you get a few games in you'll understand what to do. The difficulty can be adjusted, and the learning curve is not bad at all. I strongly endorse this game!!!

Nice game to create your evil dungeon,

I enjoyed the game play, and truly did sink a lot of time into the game, but I also am a devout Catholic, and I don't feel comfortable with the sacrilegious tone the new update took. If you don't mind that, and enjoy games that tend towards being a bit harder, you'll probably like this game. I'll probably be retiring it, though.

sstinky

Just not a very fun game, poor turn based combat, poor turn based combat, For a game that came out this year I expected more, this is just a clunky mess.

this game taught me that minors make very poor miners

War crimes in fantasy setting.

Fantastic.

A game about being an evil dungeon keeper, destroying or enslaving your enemies.
And it has a surprisingly relaxing soundtrack.

Any fan of the Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, or Dungeon Keeper owes it to themselves to play this game. Bonus points for being one of the most moddable games on the market! Dig out your dungeon, repel invaders, find treasure, and take good care of your champion creatures to take control. Lots of replayability, and a very unique mechanic that allows you to set your own dungeon as an adversary for future playthroughs (or download other players' dungeons). Perfect for laptops and steam decks.

Ah, KeeperRL, the game where your dreams of being an evil overlord come true-sort of. Imagine if Dungeons and Dragons had a wild fling with SimCity, and nine months later you got KeeperRL.

First off, you'll dive into a pixelated world that looks like someone took a box of Crayola crayons to an ancient map. You're the bad guy here, a dungeon keeper with a desire for domination and an interior decorating style that screams "I'm evil, but I like things organized."

You start building your dungeon, and it's all fun and games until you realize your minions are about as smart as a sack of hammers. They'll wander into traps they set themselves, and forget the concept of teamwork when the heroes come knocking.

Speaking of heroes, they're more like persistent pests who didn't get the memo that the villain should always win. And nothing says 'comic relief' quite like watching your supposedly fearsome creatures get their butts handed to them by a lone hero with a stick.

But here's the kicker: when you least expect it, you might just end up getting emotionally attached to your little goblin chef who's struggling to make a meal out of thin air.

KeeperRL is a delightful mess-a chaotic mix of strategy, management, and role-playing, all wrapped up in a retro-graphics package that makes you nostalgic for the days when your biggest worry was whether you had enough quarters for the arcade.

So, if you've ever wanted to unleash your inner villain and laugh at the absurdity of it all, KeeperRL is your ticket to a villainous good time!

Great funny game !

Great little game, needs more depth but is fun for a bit

A somewhat simple yet very re-playable game. It can get a bit repetitive once you figure out the best solutions are most often the same solutions for every race, but there is some nice variety and strategy with races such as the Dwarves and Gnomes to spice things up from endless "forced conscription". If you ever get bored there's a lot of mods that add lots of content into the world that ramps up the difficulty as well.
My only big complaint is that the Adventure mode was a lot better in Early Access compared to now. I feel like it isn't worth playing Adventure mode anymore.

Neat little colony builder/roguelike fusion where you play the bad guy, or well there are a couple of "good" playable factions as well as a roguelike adventure mode.

Don't expect dwarf fortress levels of depth, you can kind of finish a campaign in a single (long) sitting once you get a grasp on things, there are z levels and treasures to be found in the depth as well as raiding other map tiles, but population limit is kind of restrictive and the tech tree is not that expansive, but still plenty of content and different factions play quite differently.

Fun dungeon building game

It's ok.

This game is simple but complex and entertaining and frustrating all at the same time. It's a great game to take it slow and bring it with you on the Steam Deck or just on a side monitor while you're at "work". I found myself coming back to this game several times during the course of the development and enjoying each and every new addition, improvement, and edit. Still looking forward to whats ahead for this game and the devs.