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War for the Overworld does look like a good spiritual successor to the old Dungeon Keeper games, but it seems it has a way to go yet.
I haven't played the game yet, as a lot of the reviews and user posts on the game point to the same thing: It was released too early. There's a lot of reports of memory leaks, random crashes, poor performance and the list goes on. I will reserve my own thoughts on it until I play it though of course.
I have contacted the developers multiple times to request a testing key, and we sadly haven't been replied to yet. I've sent another request today, so hopefully we can share some thoughts in future. We are already two weeks late on letting people know it was released, so I couldn't really hold off any longer.
About the game
Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you build your own!
Do you feel you are in a slump? Monotonously disemboweling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? You are starting to wonder... are heroics really your calling? Welcome to the War for the Overworld!
War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RTS and God Game genres. You play an all-powerful, malevolent Underlord, long banished to the Aether. With unrivaled dark power and an insatiable desire for bloody conquest, you will arise once more, and reclaim your realm!
Check out War for the Overworld on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
War for the Overworld does look like a good spiritual successor to the old Dungeon Keeper games, but it seems it has a way to go yet.
I haven't played the game yet, as a lot of the reviews and user posts on the game point to the same thing: It was released too early. There's a lot of reports of memory leaks, random crashes, poor performance and the list goes on. I will reserve my own thoughts on it until I play it though of course.
I have contacted the developers multiple times to request a testing key, and we sadly haven't been replied to yet. I've sent another request today, so hopefully we can share some thoughts in future. We are already two weeks late on letting people know it was released, so I couldn't really hold off any longer.
About the game
Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you build your own!
Do you feel you are in a slump? Monotonously disemboweling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? You are starting to wonder... are heroics really your calling? Welcome to the War for the Overworld!
War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RTS and God Game genres. You play an all-powerful, malevolent Underlord, long banished to the Aether. With unrivaled dark power and an insatiable desire for bloody conquest, you will arise once more, and reclaim your realm!
Check out War for the Overworld on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I've completed the campaign so I can update this a little further if anyone is interested. It was released too early but they explained why in a lengthy heart to heart and I understand their position somewhat. Now onto the game itself.
It certainly feels like DK2 in many ways, some rooms are completely new, others are new and enjoyable (the beast den adds another bit of flavour to the game that I quite like). Each trap uses a bit of mana to control so you can't just spam traps everywhere.
The levels are mostly good fun, couple of boring ones. Most are small maps and overall not too challenging. The bugs have been getting killed at a very good rate, I recall a patch every few hours Easter weekend which is nice, theres no "killer" bugs that I recall (now that the ones I ran into got patched).
All in all, I have no regrets getting it or playing it when I did and its only going to get better! The Linux version is pretty decent as well, there are massive slowdowns if you get enough units minds, mostly a problem when you end up converting half the enemy!
Cheers,
Chris
It certainly feels like DK2 in many ways, some rooms are completely new, others are new and enjoyable (the beast den adds another bit of flavour to the game that I quite like). Each trap uses a bit of mana to control so you can't just spam traps everywhere.
The levels are mostly good fun, couple of boring ones. Most are small maps and overall not too challenging. The bugs have been getting killed at a very good rate, I recall a patch every few hours Easter weekend which is nice, theres no "killer" bugs that I recall (now that the ones I ran into got patched).
All in all, I have no regrets getting it or playing it when I did and its only going to get better! The Linux version is pretty decent as well, there are massive slowdowns if you get enough units minds, mostly a problem when you end up converting half the enemy!
Cheers,
Chris
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I've been doing some volunteer Linux QA for them for some time, so if anyone has any trouble with it then let me know and I'll try to help. I finally played through the campaign for the release and I have to say that I _really_ enjoyed the game. I'd highly recommend this game to anyone that enjoyed DKII.
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