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Build an underground dungeon, manage monstrous minions and defenses, and repel heroes in a strategy-management campaign.
Released 02 Apr 2015
Excavate Your Dungeon
Trap Heroic Invaders
Manage Monster Minions
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Developed by Brightrock Games · Published by Mythwright, Brightrock Games
You take the role of an evil Underlord, excavating an underground dungeon and defending it from invading heroes and rival forces.
Build rooms, attract and manage minions, gather resources, and prepare defenses with traps, spells, potions, rituals, and other tools. Progress through the campaign to unlock options from a collection of more than sixty rooms and abilities.
Play campaign missions, skirmishes, scenarios, multiplayer, survival, or My Pet Dungeon. A map editor with scripting support lets you make custom maps and campaigns, while mutators let you alter game rules.
Recurring enjoyment in the supplied reviews centers on building and managing an underground dungeon, with many players also valuing the familiar dungeon-keeper style, humorous narration, and the variety of missions and custom maps. Some reviews particularly enjoy the mix of dungeon management and battles against invading heroes.
Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you built your own!
Do you feel you’re in a slump, monotonously disembowelling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? Are you starting to wonder if heroics really are your calling? Then welcome to the War for the Overworld!
Excavate and build your dungeon beneath the overworld, in the modern dungeon management game that’s most faithful to the genre’s original DNA. Keep your dungeons, slap your minions, and forge underground fortresses filled with all the dastardly rooms, traps and heinous minions you desire. Do it all under the mentorship of the original and best voice of evil: Richard Ridings!
Evil loves options, and within the Veins of Evil there are plenty to go around! Choose from over sixty rooms, spells, potions, rituals, defences and constructs as you progress through the game. Deploy your fiendish tools against the goodly heroes of the overworld, and teach them the price of trespass.
With six game modes to choose from you can conquer your enemies in your own unique way. Choose from Campaign, Skirmish, Scenarios, Multiplayer, Survival, and the My Pet Dungeon expansion (free 2-level demo included in the base game), and discover what it truly means to be the bad guy.
Build your own maps and campaigns with the intuitive and powerful Map Editor, complete with scripting support, then share them on the Steam Workshop to join the ranks of thousands of custom maps already created! Meddle further, and change the very rules themselves to your liking with dozens of mutators. Being evil has never been so creative!
War for the Overworld is developed by an independent team of fanatical developers, each with a true love of the dungeon management genre. We have continued to update the game since launch, with countless patches, balancing, polish, and many new features. Our community has been vital to our success, and we couldn’t have made the game what it is today without their help. We thank them sincerely.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 142 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 8 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
