Please, do not let the fact that GOG is missing Deeper Dungeons prevent you from buying this little gem.

I played Dungeon Keeper for the first time last year. It was a great game, it's build, explore, expand, train your army, and crush your enemies before your enemies and your army crush you. It was not super challenging, but it was fun nonetheless.

Deeper Dungeons on the other hand was... not so good. I don't know if Deeper Dungeons was an attempt to fix the game difficulty or merely a way to keep you playing until they released Dungeon Keeper 2, but the expansion simply doesn't play like the original played. They did make the AI smarter, but during most missions you are limited to a mere dozen of units, while your opponents are not, and your dungeon is almost always surrounded by caves with ultra strong heroes, making save scumming a necessity whenever it's time to expand your dungeon.

Whereas Dungeon Keeper valued speed and exploration, you had to be quick to claim gold, portals and special rooms before the opponents did and crush them before they got too strong, Deeper Dungeons values turtling and micromanagement because the only way to beat an opponent that outnumbers you five to one is to stay in your hole and train a squad of Horned Reapers (yes, That Unit that requires its own private quarters because it goes berserk and kills everyone whenever he gets bored or see another Reaper.)

Every tastes are in the nature of course, but personally, the fast paced gameplay that I loved in Dungeon Keeper was entirely missing from Deeper Dungeons, and after four missions, which took me almost as long as it took me to finish the main campaign, I was done with it.

Buy this game, play this game, replay this game, but don't shed a tear for the lack of Deeper Dungeons, it's not worth it. It also adds no new units or features so it's not a big loss.

Damage control?

In any case I'm interested in the series, but I'm not putting money down on old games unless they are the complete editions of old games.

There is no reason we wouldn't want the expansion to go along with the game, and I don't understand why your trying to downplay it.

More like an advice for those who never played this game and are on the fence.

Because I know the feeling, I too don't put down money on old games unless they're complete editions or mostly complete, I'm currently holding out on some games sold on GOG for that very reason. But as someone who played Dungeon Keeper and its expansion before, I think it would be a shame for someone who never did to skip or hold out on this awesome game because it's not the gold version.

I hope the expansion will find its way here too one day, but if you never played Dungeon Keeper, don't wait, that's all I'm saying.

There was nothing remarkable about the Deeper Dungeons. The version they are offering is absolutely worth your time and money.

Knowing the way gog.com treats their users you should know better, that if they will ever release expansion such as Deeper Dungeons they will simply add it for free to the game.

why u mad?

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/dungeon_keeper/deeper_dungeons_soon

Looks like legal mumbo jumbo. Could releasing it for free get around the
legal hurdle?

Oh man, don't let anything stop you from buying this and slapping the heck out of those imps! ;-)

Okay, that sound of the slapping got be to get it, again.

I bought the DK1/DK2 on eBay, around 7 years ago, bought
DK Gold, from a seller in the UK, around 2 years ago....

Love the game! I really hope that a new game is made.

This !

I think that the Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition is the best choice for gog. Expansion+Direct 3d patch

There were plans, but it got canceled and IRRC the developer has ceased to exist.
Some other company tried to make a "spiritual successor" called Dungeons but that ....thing.... turned out to be no worthy heir to the crown. At all.

If you don't have Dungeon Keeper and have never played it, this version is completely worth your time and money. I'm another person who thinks Deeper Dungeons added nothing to the base DK experience (it was basically just a collection of super-hard maps with no new story). And since the Windows 95 version of Dungeon Keeper is extremely dodgy to get working, what we have here is the best version.

If your really gonna whine about not having the Deeper Dungeons the i personally think you can F**k off. Buy an old PC for cheap, buy Dungeon Keeper Gold for cheap and play it on bloody XP if its that disapointing.

I've waited for ages, with my fingers crossed, hoping that GOG would get this...and they finally have. To hear people bitching about it already just grinds my gears.

So for everyone else thats glad its here, you better get cracking, because "you need a bigger workshop!".

I was disappointed Deeper Dungeons did not get thrown in.
It is 13? maps that were designed to be excessively hard for those who wanted the extra challenge.

DK is a seriously EASY game once you figure out the tricks. Deeper dungeons was a nice way of saying "Know your place" to those who thought the game was too easy.


Still No questions asked worth it regardless of Deeper Dungeons, just hope it gets added as a Bonus later.