Dungeons 3

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Dungeons 3	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Strategy	👁️ Visual:	3D Top-Down
🏷️ Category:	Strategy ➤ TD & DK ➤ Dungeon Keeper	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:	Strategy; Tactical; Dungeon Keeper; Action RPG; Management; Villain Protagonist; Demons; Skill-Based; Fantasy; Simulation; Comedy; Unity engine; Voice-Acting; Procedural Generation; Online Multi; Competitive; Co-op; Controller	⏱️ Pacing:	Real Time
🐣️ Approx. start:		👫️ Played:	Single & Multi
🐓️ Latest:		🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
📍️ Version:	Latest: -	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	💰 Commercial	🎀️ Quality:	7. ⏳️
🏛️ License:	Commercial	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2018-09-08	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👻️ Temporary:
💡 Lights on:		🎨️ Significant improvement:
👔️ Already shown:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	🦺️ Work in progress:
🎰️ ID:	15478

📖️ Summary

📜️[en]:	The sequel to the eponymous game, a single-player / multi-player humorous strategy / simulator game, with a gameplay, when underground, close to a Dungeon Keeper, and on the surface, its an RTS game during the assault given in the villages of these pesky humans. This opus further enhances the previous one with a completely revised RTS mode, an extensive single player campaign with 20 missions and over 20 hours of play, randomly generated levels, a brand new co-op mode for two players, more rooms, more unique abilities, and the return of the Dungeons narrator, acclaimed by the fans of the series.	📜️[fr]:	La suite du jeu éponyme, un jeu de stratégie / simulation solo/multi au ton humoristique, avec un gameplay proche d'un Dungeon Keeper sous terre, et d'un jeu de stratégie tactique temps réel en surface lors de l'assaut donné dans les villages de ces casse-pieds d'humains. Cet opus améliore encore le précédent avec un mode RTS entièrement revu, une campagne solo étendue avec 20 missions et plus de 20 heures de jeu, des niveaux générés aléatoirement, un tout nouveau mode coopératif pour deux joueurs, plus de salles et plus de capacités uniques, et le retour du narrateur de Dungeons, plébiscité par les fans de la série.

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📕 Description [en]

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At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Through enticing the dark elf priestess Thalya from the fluffy clutches of the surface world to become his chief lieutenant, the Dungeon Lord has found a way to direct his campaign of conquest from the confines of his underground lair. With Thalya on the front line, and the united forces of evil to support her, players will have to use every trick in the book to best those do-gooders of the overworld, once and for all!

Unleash your dark side by creating a unique underground dungeon from a huge array of rooms, traps and structures. Raise the most terrifying army the world has ever seen, by choosing from despicable creatures such as orcs, succubae, zombies and much, much more. Then, once you have built your forces, emerge from the darkness and guide your army to the light of the overworld, where you will corrupt the land and dispatch anything even vaguely heroic, cute or unicorn-shaped. And in a first for the Dungeons series, experience randomly generated levels, so that no two sessions are alike – never-ending fun for any evil conqueror!

• The dungeon manager you’ve been waiting for: Dungeons 3 is the biggest, best, and evil-est dungeon sim yet, topped off with a fully reworked overworld RTS mode.
• Under new management: Command the united forces of evil under the guidance of new character Thalya and lead them to victory.
• Size does matter: Extensive single player campaign with 20 missions and more than 20 hours of playtime, randomly generated levels, a brand new co-op mode for two players, more rooms, and more unique abilities.
• Speak no evil: The fan-favourite Dungeons narrator is back with his unmistakable voice, continuing the Dungeons legacy in the best way possible.

🌍️ Wikipedia:

Dungeons 3 is a video game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media. It was released on October 13, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is the sequel to the 2015 video game Dungeons 2 and the third installment of the Dungeons series.

Dungeons 3 combines dungeon building with real-time strategy elements. Players are tasked with creating an underground dungeon for creatures to live in as well as defending their dungeon against invading heroes from the world above. They can also send creatures to the world above where they can take direct control of their units. The game's single-player campaign follows the story of Thalya, a dark elf sorcerer, on her quest to conquer the continent she lives on at the behest of the Dungeon Lord from the previous games. In multiplayer, players can either cooperate to play the campaign or compete against each other.

Gameplay

Dungeons 3 is a dungeon building video game with real-time strategy elements. The primary task is to build a dungeon, an underground lair which serves as a home to the player's units and their base of operations. In dungeon building mode, the player controls the world with a hand, performing actions such as moving creatures around the map, casting spells, and interacting with specific items. The hand is also used to designate parts of the underground for excavation and to create rooms. Commands are carried out by little imp-like creatures called snots, which are constantly regenerated by the dungeon heart which is the center of the dungeon and represents the player's health. It is the primary target for attacking heroes and its destruction leads to a game over. Additionally, the dungeon heart room stores gold and features a trap door that can be used to get rid of unwanted units.

To build and maintain their dungeon, five different resources are available: Gold is gained by excavating gold veins in the underground and is used to pay for rooms, units and new technologies. Gobblers are little chicken-like creatures continuously created by a farm and serve as food for creatures. Toolboxes are used to make traps as well as to create certain contraptions in some rooms. Mana is generated by Demon units and is used to unleash powerful magic spells as well as revive Demon units and turn toolboxes into magic toolboxes for more powerful traps. Beer is brewed by Horde units in special rooms and serves to keep those units happy. "Evilness" is a resource generated by capturing certain places in the over-world and is needed to research stronger technologies and upgrades.

With the exception of Thalya, the player's hero unit, all other units have to be unlocked by research and hired through an in-game menu. Almost all units demand a number of comforts, including a regular wage, rooms to sleep in, food and relaxation, and will go on strike if their needs are not met. The game features both neutral units and rooms, such as a treasury and farms, as well as three factions that provide their own specific advantages and disadvantages: The Horde allows the player to hire goblins, orcs and naga and provides access to training rooms and traps; Demons consist of imps, arachnids and succubi and allows the player to research upgrades as well as generate mana for spells and advanced traps; and The Undead faction offers banshees, vampires and lich creatures and rooms like a prison to incarcerate attacking heroes. Additionally, each faction has a singular powerful titan unit that can only be hired once. Even with upgrades, players can only recruit 20 units from all three factions combined as well as up to five converted heroes; additionally, undead skeletons and zombies can be created from fallen heroes that do not count towards this limit. While each faction offers their own technology tree, many aspects can be combined for better results: For example, heroes captured in the Undead prison can be tortured in the Demon torture chamber to switch sides and fight for the player and Undead crypts can serve to resurrect dead Horde creatures. Dead Demon units will be resurrected in a lair using mana and defeated Undead units will slowly regenerate in their graveyard.

While in dungeon building mode, units cannot be controlled directly but picked up using the hand and dropped where they should be, for example to attack heroes that have entered the dungeon through one of the entrances. Each dungeon features one or more such entrances that also allow units to be sent to the world above by grabbing the units with the hand and placing them on the exit. Units that leave the dungeon reappear in the over-world map. Unlike in the dungeon, players can select units like in other real-time strategy games and issue commands directly as well as use their skills. Most maps require certain goals to be achieved on this map. Additionally, some missions feature no dungeon and have to be played with a fixed number of units provided. Events on both maps happen at the same time, forcing players to divide their attention.

The game features twenty single-player missions as well as a co-op mode that allows two players to complete the campaign together. Additionally, the game contains a skirmish mode which allows battles against the computer on randomly generated maps as well as a multiplayer mode where players can compete against each other but not attack each other's dungeons (unlike in Dungeons 2). The game uses an isometric perspective that can be rotated by 90° to display the environment and uses two different mini-maps for dungeon and over-world view. Cut-scenes that tell the story use comic book style drawings instead of being rendered in the game's engine.

Synopsis

Setting and characters

The game's story takes place a short time after the events of Dungeons 2 on a new continent ruled by the good paladin Tanos with the help of his friends, racist dwarf king Grimli, the vain paladin Elric the Pretty, and the greedy Yaina Overproud. Tanos has also adopted a young dark elf sorcerer named Thalya in an attempt to cure her inner darkness and prevent her from doing evil. The player's goal is to conquer the empire for the Dungeon Lord using Thalya as their lieutenant.

Plot

After conquering the lands above, the Dungeon Lord becomes bored and attempts to invade a new continent which fails due to the minions' incompetence in boat-building. The Dungeon Lord casts a spell that allows him to control Thalya, awakening her evil side. After she slaughters the people in her home village, she decides to let her dark side take over and begins serving the Dungeon Lord as its chief lieutenant. on her quest to punish Tanos for attempting to convert her.

On this quest, Thalya gradually conquers more and more parts of the continent and dispatches of Tanos' friends one by one. Facing Tanos himself, she fails to defeat him and uses a spell to temporarily transport the Dungeon Lord to the continent where he battles with Tanos who then flees and becomes more fanatic in his attempts to destroy Thalya and her forces, sacrificing his own cities and people and calling upon dead heroes from Valhalla to fight for him instead. In the end, Thalya manages to defeat Tanos and subjugate the empire under the Dungeon Lord's will.

Humor

More so than its predecessors, Dungeons 3 contains a lot of allusions to other works of science-fiction and fantasy as well as meta-humor, which includes frequently breaking the fourth wall by both the narrator and Thalya in dialogue. The narrator (Kevan Brighting) also frequently argues with Thalya during missions and alters the missions based on these dialogues, such as having Thalya be attacked by bears he conjured out of thin air because she made a snippy comment at his expense. Allusions to other games of the same genre, especially Warcraft III, as well as other games, films and fantasy franchises are numerous.

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📕 Description [fr]

Un jeu de stratégie / simulation au ton humoristique, avec un gameplay type Dungeon Keeper, par le studio Realmforge Studios (publié et fondé par le studio Kalypso Media).
Il utilise le moteur Unity.

Dungeons 3 est la suite du jeu éponyme, un jeu de stratégie / simulation solo/multi au ton humoristique, avec un gameplay proche d'un Dungeon Keeper sous terre, et d'un jeu de stratégie tactique temps réel en surface lors de l'assaut donné dans les villages de ces casse-pieds d'humains. Cet opus améliore encore le précédent avec un mode RTS entièrement revu, une campagne solo étendue avec 20 missions et plus de 20 heures de jeu, des niveaux générés aléatoirement, un tout nouveau mode coopératif pour deux joueurs, plus de salles et plus de capacités uniques, et le retour du narrateur de Dungeons, plébiscité par les fans de la série.

Enfin, le Seigneur du donjon a réussi à unifier les forces du mal et à établir son sinistre empire. Il est temps de passer à la prochaine étape de sa quête la plus diabolique : l'expansion !

En séduisant la prêtresse elfe noire Thalya hors de l'étreinte moelleuses du monde de la surface pour en faire son principal lieutenant, le Seigneur du donjon a trouvé le moyen de diriger sa campagne de conquête depuis les limites de son repaire souterrain. Avec Thalya sur la ligne de front soutenue par les forces unies du mal, les joueurs devront utiliser tous les trucs du livre pour aider au mieux ces bons à rien du monde, une fois pour toutes!

Libérez votre côté obscur en créant un donjon souterrain unique à partir d'une vaste variété de pièces, de pièges et de structures. Levez l'armée la plus terrifiante que le monde ait jamais vue, en choisissant parmi des créatures ignobles telles que des orques, des succubes, des zombies et bien plus encore. Ensuite, une fois que vous avez construit vos forces, sortez des ténèbres et guidez votre armée à la lumière du monde extérieur, où vous corromprez la terre et enverrez n'importe quoi, même vaguement héroïque, mignon ou en forme de licorne. Et pour la première fois de la série Dungeons, expérimentez des niveaux générés aléatoirement, de sorte que deux sessions ne se ressemblent pas - un plaisir sans fin pour tout conquérant maléfique!

• Le gestionnaire de donjon que vous attendiez : Dungeons 3 est le plus grand, le meilleur et le plus diabolique simulateur de donjon à ce jour, avec un mode RTS entièrement revu.
• Sous une nouvelle direction : commandez les forces unies du mal sous la direction du nouveau personnage Thalya et conduisez-les à la victoire.
• La taille compte : une campagne solo étendue avec 20 missions et plus de 20 heures de jeu, des niveaux générés aléatoirement, un tout nouveau mode coopératif pour deux joueurs, plus de salles et plus de capacités uniques.
• N'en dites pas du mal : Le narrateur de Dungeons, favori des fans, est de retour avec sa voix unique, poursuivant de la meilleure façon l'héritage Dungeons.