While many key elements of Dungeon Keeper are here – resource management, subterranean base-building, elaborate boob-trapped mazes, a giant hand for a cursor – developer Realmforge Studios have clearly made great efforts to explore the creative potential of the classic Dungeon Keeper style. While the Dungeons series began as a love letter to the Dungeon Keeper games by now-defunct studio Bullfrog Productions, it’s awesome to see that it’s evolved beyond pure nostalgia. “Realmforge Studios have clearly made great efforts to explore the creative potential of the classic Dungeon Keeper style. ![]() But it’s admirable to see anybody try to capture that spark one more time to take a solid foundation and fulfil its creative potential. 9 – proving that the presence of the original creators and/or a passion for what made the original games great isn’t a magic wand. ![]() For every Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, there’s a Mighty No. Not all of these are guaranteed to be smash hits, of course. Thanks in part to the popularity of crowd-funding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, there’s been an ever-growing trend of follow-ups to games which – for many reasons – otherwise wouldn’t get a sequel. The rise of the spiritual successor in the past decade has been a saving grace for fans of these ill-fated franchises.
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