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. 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. 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. "Evilness" is a resource generated by capturing certain places in the over-world and is needed to research stronger technologies and upgrades. Beer is brewed by Horde units in special rooms and serves to keep those units happy. 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. Toolboxes are used to make traps as well as to create certain contraptions in some rooms. Gobblers are little chicken-like creatures continuously created by a farm and serve as food for creatures. 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. Additionally, the dungeon heart room stores gold and features a trap door that can be used to get rid of unwanted units.
It is the primary target for attacking heroes and its destruction leads to a game over. 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. The hand is also used to designate parts of the underground for excavation and to create rooms. 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 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 multiplayer, players can either cooperate to play the campaign or compete against each other.ĭungeons 3 is a dungeon building video game with real-time strategy elements.
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. They can also send creatures to the world above where they can take direct control of their units. 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. It is the sequel to the 2015 video game Dungeons 2 and the third installment of the Dungeons series.ĭungeons 3 combines dungeon building with real-time strategy elements. It was released on October 13, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dungeons 3 is a video game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media.