Dungeon Keeper Reviews – Page 4
4/5 rating based on 211 reviews. Read all reviews for Dungeon Keeper for iPhone.
Dungeon Keeper is free iOS app published by Electronic Arts Inc.
A mobile game?
zangier
I thought since I downloaded this app from the App Store like all my other games it was a mobile game. However, the game doesn’t work unless I am on my 250mb internet connection. It should work on a normal LTE data signal like every other game app I have on my mobile devices.
Unbalanced game, little to commend it.
Halfabubbleoff
Updated review I uninstalled this game. Don’t get it, it’s not worth your time. ——— New review. Recent changes have unbalanced the game to the point where it is very difficult to play. Trolls now do not seek the nearest room but seek traps. I've had trolls walk past the dungeon heart seeking traps, even disabled traps, on the other side resulting in defeats. Traps can also be easily disabled, after certain point the traps hardly do anything at all, they just get disabled or destroyed, and you just have to hope the defense rooms can hold up and often they can't so therefore when you get attacked you're often defeated If you try to upgrade the dark library, while it's upgrading you get no mana, so that also affects her ability to attack for the days that it takes that room to upgrade. The guild rooms now can tell you how many minions someone has donated but it doesn't tell you how many minions they've withdrawn so there's no way to tell if or who is taking a lot of minions. There also still numerous bugs with the software, such as you may have donated minions to your guild and then you go away from the game and then you come back to the game and the timer still acts as if you just donated minions to the guild. Also your guild's rank depends upon you meeting a variety of achievements. A lot of these achievements are based on how many of a particular minion have been donated, however, on occasion you will have hundreds of one minion but nobody wants and you're running out of other minions the people want. There is no way to flush out excess minions people have to pick them out one by one in order to create space so it creates issues with guild management. Also, EA offers frequent promotions to get immortals or imps at a reduced gem cost. This is frustrating if you've already purchased them and there's no opportunity to get a refund or some sort of loyalty bonus. There is little to commend this game anymore I'm reducing my rating from three stars to one star and I'm a level 3 Obsidian. I might also remove this game from my devices due to the unbalanced nature of the gameplay. ------- Old review below ------- I've enjoyed playing the game, the combination of attack and defense has been fun. The problems: 1) The game has frequent crashes and dropped connections in the middle of attacks. This has been frustrating because as the attacker you lose all the minions you deployed, without much opportunity to gain anything. 2) unequal PvP. There have been times that the selection criteria for who I randomly attack has allowed me to attack an obviously lower ranking player, who would have no chance to defeat me. or conversely, put me up against opponents who are so much more advanced that I'd be lucky to get 20% against. 3) PvP rewards, you can "defeat" an attacker, and the only real reward is a trophy or two. You can lose a lot of stone and gold. 4) balance of stone and gold, gold seems to be overly plentiful, but stone is far too unavailable to make the game enjoyable to play. 5) Wall Bombs - I've used them and they've been used against me. They have a place, but they render most designs moot as you never know what angle someone is going to attack and higher levels of the wall bomb make it impossible to really stop any wall bomb attack. 6) Bonuses after a defense. After defending against a raid, you can get the opportunity to see revenge with boosts for seeing the traps and buffing your minions, but for only 1 hour after the attack. This is pointless unless you're immediately informed of the attack. Also, occasionally you will get a cave-in defense for 8 hours, usually after a defend defeat. But honestly, the non-cave-in buffs shouldn't start until after you've logged into the game. With that said, I enjoy the game. It's been fun to play the past few weeks, just a bit rough around the edges.
Only on WiFi
SumDrah
What is the point of a mobile game if it can only be played on WiFi? Code 1 cannot connect when on mobile data. Laaaaaaaame.
Worthless
tybtt1
Never able to load the game it is always stuck on “checking for updates” and I have never got to play it
Peter Molyneux is turning over in his grave.
Insomniatical
EA once again time-gated and micro-transactioned my fond, early memories of gaming. I can only hope that their chambers in hell have the same constraints.
Shadow of former greatness
nagusjim
Original was one of the best games ever. This doesn’t come close. Game is engineered to force real money purchases. Half of pvp raids end in crashes, kicking you out in false defeat with lost minions, trophies, and time. Get a DOS emulator and play the real one. It is miles better.
Is it useless to ask EA any question about this game?
Laotto70
I wish I could give this zero stars. I was going to ask EA a question about this game but, after reading some of the reviews I feel it would be useless to ask EA any question at all. Along with no updates for at least a year on this game. I used to play the PC version of this game with my brother, they stopped any and all support for the PC version and came out with this lame one. You can’t do anything in this so called game. It takes two hours to dig and eight hours to upgrade any room. This is ridiculous time wise, the PC version NEVER had time limits like this. Some people have said in order to speed these times up you have to spend real money. If EA would try to make this game a little more fun by shortening the time it takes to do basic things like dig I might be more inclined to spend real money, but not because I have to, in order to speed things up in the first place.
Poor shadow of the original
Gamer1272
I was excited when I saw this game in the App Store as I had played the original and loved it but this is just a poor imitation. The only way to advance is to do PvP battles against other users who’ve had the chance to build up their dungeons and you don’t stand a chance against. It should put you against other people who are the same level but it doesn’t and you lose and it’s frustrating. In the original PC game you fought against dungeons run by the computer and it was fun and you made progress, they should have kept it that way. I would have paid for that but the way it is now, no thanks not even for free.