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Dungeons: The Dark Lord

Dungeons: The Dark Lord is the sequel to Dungeons, the game where the more evil you are, the better! There are a slew of exciting new features, including four-player multiplayer in four modes! Along with the…

83 27 September 2011 ESRB M

Dungeons: The Dark Lord is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Realmforge Studios, released 27 September 2011 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dungeons: The Dark Lord is

Dungeons: The Dark Lord is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Realmforge Studios and released in 2011. It was published by CDP. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on OGRE. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dungeons: The Dark Lord is the sequel to Dungeons, the game where the more evil you are, the better! There are a slew of exciting new features, including four-player multiplayer in four modes! Along with the addition of multiplayer modes such as Deathmatch and King of the Hill, there’s now the ability to play as some of the game’s popular bosses (Minos, The Dungeon Lord, the Zombie King and more) in multiplayer, along with the addition of an extensive single-player campaign, a new dungeon setting and 25 new prestige gimmicks.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Dungeons: The Dark Lord holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core, 3 GB of RAM and 256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics card with Shader Model 3.0. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Dungeons: The Dark Lord launched on 27 September 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.

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Dungeons: The Dark Lord — frequently asked questions

When did Dungeons: The Dark Lord come out?
Dungeons: The Dark Lord was released on 27 September 2011 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Dungeons: The Dark Lord?
At minimum, Dungeons: The Dark Lord needs 2.0 GHz Dual Core, 3 GB of RAM, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics card with Shader Model 3.0 graphics, 2 GB free HDD of storage.
How many GB is Dungeons: The Dark Lord?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB free HDD"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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