Dungeon Keeper Megathread
This thread will contain all of the available games, mods, remakes and communities in the Dungeon Keeper franchise.
Dungeon Keeper 1
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- You can buy the Digital Gold Edition from EA. It costs €4.99 but is also available by subscribing to EA Play which costs €3.99/month and offers other games as well.
- It comes with the DosBOX emulation software so it can run on modern systems. (If you are using this version, you can switch to the official high-res mode by pressing Alt+R)
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- You can buy the Dungeon Keeper Digital Gold Edition from GOG.com for €5.59.
- It is often for sale at a 50% or 75% discount.
- It comes with the DosBOX emulation software so it can run on modern systems. (If you are using this version, you can switch to the official high-res mode by pressing Alt+R)
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- You can buy the Dungeon Keeper Digital Gold Edition from Steam for €4.99.
- It is often for sale at a 60% discount.
- It comes with the DosBOX emulation software so it can run on modern systems. (If you are using this version, you can switch to the official high-res mode by pressing Alt+R)
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KeeperFX (open-source remake)
- KeeperFX is an open-source remake and fan expansion of Dungeon Keeper. It makes the game playable on modern systems and contains a lot of new features, content and other goodies. It's a standalone game but requires the original game files in order for it to work. Development is very active with new features and bugfixes released almost daily. It tries to keep the original campaign exactly the same, but allows content creators to use the new content in their maps- and campaigns.
Dungeon Keeper 2
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- You can buy Dungeon Keeper 2 from EA for €4.99. It is also available by subscribing to EA Play which costs €3.99/month and offers other games as well.
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- You can buy Dungeon Keeper 2 from GOG.com for €5.59.
- It is often for sale at a 50% or 75% discount.
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- You can buy Dungeon Keeper 2 from Steam for €4.99.
- It is often for sale at a 60% discount.
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- Flame is the KeeperFX of Dungeon Keeper 2. It modifies and recompiles the Dungeon Keeper 2 code to fix the bugs found in both single and multiplayer. It works with the Disk, Steam and GOG versions of the game. It is still a work in progress, but it has a lot of fixes already and is playable.
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Ember (Patching Launcher)
- Ember is a patching launcher that combines a lot of patches together and allows you to choose what patches you want to use. It also makes the life of developers easier by providing an easier way to create patches.
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- dgVoodoo2 is a wrapper that translates old DirectX calls to newer DirectX11 calls. It offers improvements to 3D rendering such as native UHD 2160p graphics rendering, forced anisotropy and anti-aliasing.
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OpenKeeper (open-source remake, In development)
- This is a standalone game that is not playable yet. It's goal is to make an open-source version of Dungeon Keeper 2.
Custom Content
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Dungeon Keeper 1
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- The official KeeperFX workshop is a new place for sharing all kind of content related to KeeperFX. You can find maps, campaigns, multiplayer maps, creatures, tools and much more. Some of the content can also work on official Dungeon Keeper games and is marked as such.
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- Lubiki has always been the go-to place for Dungeon Keeper related content. You can find maps, campaigns, tools, assets and more, for both Dungeon Keeper 1 and Dungeon Keeper 2. It was also the previous place where KeeperFX could be downloaded and is still being kept up to date with the latest releases and alpha patches.
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- Keeper Klan has a dedicated downloads section for Dungeon Keeper related downloads. You can find maps and tools here.
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Dungeon Keeper 2
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- Keeper Klan has a dedicated downloads section for Dungeon Keeper 2 related downloads. You can find maps, mods and tools here.
Communities
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Discord
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- This is the official Discord of Keeper Klan and is quite active. You can go here to talk about DK1 and DK2, get technical support and discuss making maps. You can also easily find multiplayer games for KeeperFX and Dungeon Keeper 2.
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Forums
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- Keeper Klan is probably the most active english-speaking community involving the Dungeon Keeper franchise.
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Reddit (/r/dungeonkeeper)
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Lemmy (Lemmy.world)
Wikis
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- This is an unofficial wiki featuring both Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2. It explains all aspects of the games like Creatures and Rooms. It's being kept up to date and even contains specific KeeperFX information and stuff like unofficial DK2 patches.
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- This japanese website features an unnoficial Japanese wiki for Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2.
Other resources
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- A list of many known Dungeon Keeper related websites, both alive and dead.
Notes
The mobile game called Dungeon Keeper has been kept from this list as it has been removed from the mobile app stores and is not available anymore. It was a freemium tower-defense game. Even if it was still available it would not be playable anymore because it relied on the servers of EA and those have been shut down as well.
Outro
Written by Yani (kuurtjes). Feel free to suggest changes or content to be added. This is a repost of my post on Reddit.
You can also find me on the Keeper Klan Discord.
Enjoy :)
Because supporting multiple platforms, especially in gaming, isn't magic or rocket science and almost always comes down to the setup of the toolchain.
Very possible. But I go by their actual statement: "maintaining the native build across many distros was taking time away from developing new content". My point is regarding the "maintaining [...] across many distros" and not the "taking time away". A good toolchain would make these differences extremely minimal.
Extremely unlikely. That would mean more than 10 developers working fulltime purely on Linux support since the release of the game. According to their team page on their website they have 7 developers in total.
This is why experienced developers decouple the game from the platform specific stuff and test them separately.
The game is made in Unity so most of the platform specific stuff should already be production ready. Unity literally markets their engine as "Industry-leading multiplatform support" with the motto "Create once, ship anywhere".
So my argument still stands. And as I said, it's not a bad thing. The only thing I dislike is the indirect implication of Linux being a hassle when it would be nicer if they would take more responsibility for it.