Subterranean ne’er-do-well sim Dungeons 2 free on GOG

It’s about time we boarded up the home windows right here within the RPS treehouse for the weekend, however we depart you with just a little present, though admittedly a second-hand one. Presumably in an effort to drum up curiosity within the (fairly good) Dungeons 3, Realmforge Studios have been making a gift of the second recreation of their Dungeon Keeper-ish rather a lot recently. If you missed the possibility to select it up last year in Humble’s giveaway, GOG are providing their DRM-free edition of the game here for the subsequent day or so.

Our resident slapper of imps, Alec, went and reviewed Dungeons 2 back in the day and located it a broadly pleasing expertise, albeit not one with out its flaws. In explicit, the he discovered the sport’s overbearing humor ceaselessly fell flat, relying extra on snide references and sarcasm in place for precise wit, and there’s a number of pop-culture name-drops that dated the sport badly even at launch and really feel just a little lengthy within the tooth now.

While no person at RPS Towers (or the fortress, or treehouse – we actually do must consolidate our properties) has discovered the time or inclination to pen a full evaluate of Dungeons three, the sequel feels prefer it improves on most points individuals introduced up close to the second, though Dungeon Keeper die-hards will probably be upset to listen to that it nonetheless divides gameplay up between dungeon administration and surface-side RTS fight.

The base Dungeons 2 game is free on GOG for a minimum of the subsequent 24 hours, and so they’re promoting the DLC (together with the gorgeous beefy A Game of Winter enlargement) at 75% off till the top of their lunar new 12 months sale.

For one further nice shock, GOG have re-opened their GOG Connect service, permitting you to clone a handful extra choose video games out of your Steam assortment over to your GOG account. Whether intentional or not, I did discover that my copy of AI War obtained upgraded routinely to the Complete Edition on GOG, regardless of me not proudly owning each enlargement.