Dungeon Keeper

Dungeon Keeper Gold restores Bullfrog's 1997 strategy-management hybrid alongside the Deeper Dungeons expansion. You are the Dungeon Keeper. Beneath each scenario sits dirt waiting to be carved into rooms, corridors and traps. Imps dig and reinforce; rooms attract specific creatures (Beetles in hatcheries, Trolls in workshops, Dark Mistresses in torture chambers) who train, work and demand food and pay.

The Forces of Good keep sending heroes (knights, wizards, fairies, samurai) down into your dungeon to spoil things. Your job is to seed corridors with traps, post your creatures strategically, and possess your minions directly when the battle gets close. Spells unlock progressively: lightning, fireballs, the ability to slap your own creatures to motivate them, and the call-to-arms that summons everyone to a fight.

Peter Molyneux and team built it as a deliberate inversion of the usual fantasy game power fantasy: you're the bad guy, the heroes are the invaders, and the dark humor never lets up. Twenty scenarios in the base campaign plus fifteen more across Deeper Dungeons round out the package.