While the underground dungeon serves as your base where you’ll build rooms in order to care for the creatures that you’ll recruit to your dark cause your objectives often lay above ground requiring careful movement of troops or use of the magical portal spell to ensure you are sufficiently covering the map. Regardless of level a core gameplay mechanic is the use of two separate game maps that splits your underground dungeon and the surface world (inhabited by heroes) with dungeon entrances allowing you to move your units between these two areas. A consistent theme though is slowly building up your dungeon of creatures before adventuring to the overworld although a small handful of levels provide pre-built dungeon designs. Each level offers this challenge in a different way with fantastic variety which includes the likes of base defence missions, escort missions and missions with various layers of sub objectives. With this quest in mind you’ll adventure throughout the world facing different situations, defeating leaders of the heroes and ultimately spreading darkness across the land as you leave a path of destruction.

Set in a far off fantasy land players infect the mind of the dark elf priestess Thalya, convincing her to give into her dark urges and conquer the goodly game world and serve as your evil hero. Gameplay includes a vast 20 mission campaign (co-op available) amongst a multiplayer skirmish mode and a survival format in the base game which is expanded further through several DLC releases. Live the life of dungeon master in Dungeons 3, a game with clear inspirations but takes the management mechanics in its own direction.

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