
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.
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The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1/day in the week to Aug 22 → 0.71/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
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.

Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 8.1Kreviews | 86% | — | $8.1M |
| $29.99 | 263ratings | 84% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 830 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Best Dungeon Keeper like out there...as long you have all DLCs for all content. However, most people play it for the multiplayer and rush for a quick victory, so if you want slow and steady you play the singleplayer, but the AI both from the enemy dungeon and your minions start to breakdown after the hour mark. Sometimes your own workers decide to ignore sections of the maps you told to dig for no reason, even if there is nothing else to do and you havent used a banner that prevents them from getting or working there. Devs are giving small updates over the years but they are working on Galacticare now, so dont expect anything mayor or intense as fixing AI problems.
the map editor is peak and the campains are difficult but not to difficult. I love this game.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 835 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I didn't like Dungeon Keeper, I don't like this one either. The UI is messy.
ABSOLUTE POOP!
For me, this game is basically the closest thing we have to Dungeon Keeper 3. I grew up playing the original Dungeon Keeper games, so when I found War for the Overworld it immediately felt familiar in the best possible way. The humor, the dungeon building, managing your creatures, expanding underground, and defending your domain from heroes — it captures the spirit of those old classics really well. If you loved Dungeon Keeper like I did, this game feels like coming home. The developers clearly understood what made those games special and built something that respects that legacy while adding modern improvements. It’s also a great “time killer.” You start building your dungeon, organizing rooms, managing your minions, and suddenly hours have passed without you noticing. I’ve put almost 300 hours into it, which probably says enough on its own. It’s not just nostalgia either — the gameplay loop of expanding, defending, and experimenting with your dungeon layout is genuinely fun and keeps you coming back. If you ever enjoyed Dungeon Keeper, this is about as close as it gets to the sequel we never officially received. Highly recommended.
good homage to the OG
No clue why this has 'Mixed' recent reviews. IMO, this is a really superb title, and it's still getting small updates 10 years on. That's dedication from the dev. If you're a fan of: Playing as the bad guy, Building a base (Dungeon), Funny commentary, I would recommend you pick this title up, even though it is 10 years old.
Very like DK but isn't DK
I love this game! Everything about this game is vastly different from other games. offering up something different and enjoyable. It allows you to go at your own pace or be ruthless and dive right in to the thick of things. My only problem is that the Devs stopped making any DLC's for this game. I'd love for them to start putting more work into the game and give it a new look and add more creatures and new things to battle. Their other games are too similar to one another and a million other games just like them. This game, War for the Overworld isn't like any other game but DK 1 & 2. There is such a cult following for this game that this game needs more love, a lot of love!
Digno sucesor de Dungeons, el único problema hasta el momento es que cuando guardo una partida y la cargo se buguea
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