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2015PCSteam Deck playable86 % positive28.99 €

A spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper where you dig out your own dungeon, build rooms, attract creatures and defend your realm as a wicked Underlord against heroes and rivals.

  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Fantasy setting
  • Tactical depth

The closest matches for War for the Overworld are Dungeon Keeper 2, Dungeon Keeper and Dungeons 4. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes War for the Overworld special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dungeon Keeper 2

95 %Match

1999PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about War for the Overworld: building and crafting, economy and management as well as a fantasy setting.

You play the villainous dungeon keeper, digging tunnels, building rooms, attracting monsters and fending off invading heroes. Its dark humor and the chance to be the bad guy make it memorable.

Dungeon Keeper

Building and crafting

You play an evil dungeon overlord, digging out rooms, attracting monsters and fending off invading heroes. Its dark humor and blend of base management with real-time strategy make this classic stand out.

Dungeons 4

Building and crafting

You play the Dark Lord, building an underground realm of traps, monsters and mines to crush the heroes above. Its cheeky, self-mocking humor and blend of base building and real-time strategy define the experience.

Impire

Building and crafting

As the snarky demon Báal-Abaddon you build a dungeon, manage hordes of nasty minions and repel invading heroes. A humorous dungeon-management strategy game in the vein of Dungeon Keeper.

Age of Mythology: Retold

Tactical depth

A remake of the classic real-time strategy game where you build an economy and army for Greek, Norse, Egyptian and other cultures, then summon mythical creatures and godly powers onto the battlefield. Updated visuals and an orchestral soundtrack bring the original into the modern era.

Dungeons 3

Lots of humour

You play an evil overlord who builds a dungeon full of traps and rooms, recruits monster hordes, then marches onto the overworld to corrupt it. A cheeky, sarcastic narrator gives this dungeon-management strategy game its charm.

Armies of Exigo

Tactical depth

A fantasy real-time strategy game where you manage bases and armies on both the surface and an underground layer. Attacks can come from unexpected directions, adding extra tactical depth.

ParaWorld

Tactical depth

A real-time strategy game set in a parallel world where dinosaurs and diverse human tribes coexist. It combines classic base building and resource gathering with land and sea battles, using dinosaurs as units.

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II

Building and crafting

A real-time strategy game set in Middle-earth, featuring base building, powerful hero units and large battles between Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and Goblins in the North. It adds a turn-based War of the Ring conquest mode on a map of Middle-earth and popular multiplayer skirmishes.

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