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#1 RimWorld

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RimWorld is a 2013’s top trending Construction and Management Simulation by Ludeon Studios. The game focuses on the objectives of the game to Explore and Expand a newly built colony of Survivors of a deadly Spaceship Crash. The primary tasks are to explore, collect resources and repairing the ship so the survivors can escape the planet. With a remarkable Top-down 2D view, RimWorld offers a randomly generated storyline and an open world to explore. RimWorld offers three AI (Artificial Intelligence) Storytellers in the game named as Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy. The story of RimWorld revolves around several characters, and it allows the players to control three characters initially at the early stages of the game. One fantastic feature of the game is that it allows the players to keep on generating the characters until they are satisfied with their particular attributes. As the time passes, more and more colonists join the game and in particular the Colony. The new colonists can act upon their will individually, or they can be taken as prisoners and forced to join the Colony. During the gameplay, the Storytellers keep on throwing random events at the players and the players gets to select between accepting the event or they can reject them. Accepting the events as quests can be good for the players as they offer tons of rewards. The characters in the game can keep on progressing until they have all escaped the planet, and that is when the game ends. With a very familiar and easy to understand gameplay and controls, beautifully created visuals and immersive gameplay, RimWorld is a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy.

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#2 Evil Genius

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Evil Genius is a brilliant MMO and RTS, City-Building and Management Simulation that literally allows you to rule the world by becoming an evil villain. The game offers unique cartoonish visuals and characters and allows you to build a secret base, complete hardest ever missions, fight off the forces of justice, engage yourself into epic battles, develop weapons and finally rule the world by the use of force. As the basic objective is to rule the world, so you must construct super-weapons, secret bases, and Doomsday Device etc. to show the world your power. The game is set in the 60’s and lets you be a ferocious villain, control whole islands, build secret facilities and strongholds, control the armies of minions, henchmen, and other cartoonish characters and rule the world. Evil Genius offers great visuals, superbly addictive game-play and a lot of other great things. Try it out and you’ll definitely be amazed at the quality of content that Evil Genius offers.

#3 Banished

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Banished is a fantastic MMO-RTS and City Building video game that takes you to a medieval era setting. The game allows you to explore the huge game world, collect resources, create balance in your resource consumption and thrive in a great environment. Banished is basically a story of a group of outcasts who after being banished came to this settlement, now they are in need of your superior skills and abilities to get settle and thrive as a prosperous nation. You can start with the limited resources you have and level up to maximum resources, build residential buildings, create farms, markets and other businesses, start new economic relations with neighboring settlements etc. because of a medieval era setting, you’ll have wood and stones as your main resources and you’ll also have to continuously produce them by cutting the forests and blowing up the mountains etc. With a great theme, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Banished is a great game to play and enjoy.

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#4 Starbound

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Starbound is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure, RPG and Indie video game developed by Chucklefish Games. Starbounds fixes you up into the character of the protagonist who flies from his planet and crashes on another. The game takes you to an amazing 2D procedurally generated game world and allows you to explore, craft different items such as weapons, armors, and other objects, fight against the enemies and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Starbound lets you craft different weapons and tools for survival and allows you to fight against the enemies using different types of skills and tactics. As the universe around you is kind of infinite, you’ll experience an amazing and quite addictive endless game-play along with great visual details and story of the game. With a number of challenging game levels, puzzles, quests, and missions, sandbox type layout, super cool 3D visuals and an immersive game-play, Starbound is a wonderful game to play.

#5 Subnautica

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Subnautica is a brand new Open World, Adventure and Survival video game set in the underwater world of an alien planet. Subnautica is set in a futuristic Era of the 22nd century, and it offers a futuristic experience. It refers to a period when Humanity started exploring and inhibiting the alien planets. To colonize the planets, various advanced vessels were sent on Exploration Missions. One of the Vessels named as Aurora was also forwarded to an exploration and terraforming mission to an alien water world known as 4546B. The vessel was on its way to a station on the planet when an unknown energy source disabled it. With a hull badly damaged, and all the systems failed, the vessel crash landed into the water and sank to the ocean floor. This is where the player character gets into the play. After getting out of the life pod, the palyer must explore the world, find means of survival (Food, Drinking Water, Oxygen to breath, etc.) in an alien world, defeat all the underwater alien life forms and survive by evolving in the environment. Resource collection has its own importance in the game because without resources there is no survival. Subnautica offers various game modes such as Freedom Mode, Hardcore Mode, Creative Mode as well as unique Crafting abilities, great upgrades, beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay.

#6 Dwarf Fortress

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Dwarf Fortress is an Open Ended RTS, Roguelike, Construction, management and City-Building video game. The game is set up in a procedurally generated game world in which you control two different groups of dwarfs. Your objective is to make the two dwarf groups work and build an underground fortress and all the buildings required. The open world is full of continents, oceans, and beastly civilizations and allows you to gather up resources by fighting and defeating your enemies. Text based game interface, Turn-Based Strategy and Roguelike game elements make this game a bit different than others but quite addictive and engaging. Dwarf Fortress features dwarfs with different mood swings and skills, for example, you can make a dwarf craft super beautiful and legendary artifacts or you can just task them to go search for resources etc. Dwarf Fortress features best 3D graphics, a lot of exciting objectives to complete, a huge amount of objects/resources to collect and much more. Do try it out.

#7 Stonehearth

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Stonehearth is another wonderful Sandbox style, Construction, Management and MMO-RTS video game that offers an addictive and quite immersive game-play. The game makes you an in charge of a small dwarf settlement and allows you to start up as a camp and with the time, grow up to a whole new civilization, control the Hearthlings, generate and manage resources, build structures like homes, markets, workshops, assign jobs to the hearthlings, grow crops, battle against the enemies and thrive in a developed community. Combats against the enemies are the best part of this brilliant game, it actually allows you to raise mighty armies, build defensive structures like Towers, create catapults, weapons and other necessary items and defend your settlement by making whole new strategies. Other cool features of Stonehearth are brilliant voxel-based visuals, an engaging game-play and the ability to help the community survive in wilderness. Stonehearth is one of the best MMO-RTS, City-Building and Management video games to play and enjoy.

#8 Tropico 4

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Tropico 4, developed by Haemimont Games and Feral Interactive is an Open Ended City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation video game. The game allows you design, build and manage the Cities as the President of Tropical Islands (Banana Republic). You must govern over Banana Republic and build buildings and structures on any island by choosing one from the map or you can just randomly select an island and start building. The game lets you be part of the game world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself and after you have completed the initial steps you can start working on your cities. Tropico 4 allow you to play game in Campaign and provides with 20 levels of addictive and engaging game-play in which you get a chance to attack your enemies and conquer their lands and loot their resources. You must use best Turn Based Strategies to eliminate your enemies and any threat that diverts your attention from building your cities. Tropico 4 is an amazingly cool MMO-RTS, City Building and Management video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

#9 Imagine Earth

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Imagine Earth is a great City Building, Management, MMO and Real-Time Strategy video game that takes you to an amazingly Interactive and Futuristic game world and allows you to be a manager of a Colony, Explore habitable near and distant stars and planets, built settlements on them, start trading and eventually grow to all the surrounding world without destroying your home.

Imagine Earth lets you enjoy playing this brilliant game by simply converting whole planets into your playgrounds, enjoy every bit of your time by simply engaging in fantastic puzzle solving, building, and developing routines. The unique strategic element allows you to use your best skills in building, democracy, trade, and defense and enjoy ruling over a world of possibilities.

#10 Neo Scavenger

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Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.

#11 Omerta: City of Gangsters

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Omerta: City of Gangsters is a Turn-based, Management, Tactical, Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Haemimont Games. The game takes place in the fictional city called Atlantic City in Atlantic Country where alcohol is ban. The city is threatened by the criminal gangs who makes money off gambling trade. The game lets the player get into the role of the unnamed character with big dreams. The player must explore the game world, start from small jobs, collect criminals and create his gang, earn money from gambling trade and expand his empire. Create the base, fight against other gangs and defeat them to earn reputation points. Use the points to unlock further content. There are fifteen different characters each with unique skills, backgrounds, and personalities. The game includes twenty different maps with various environments to explore. Omerta: City of Gangsters offers core features such as RPG system, Turn-based Combat, Strategic Gameplay, Historical City, Stealth Action, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

#12 Empires of the Undergrowth

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Empires of the Undergrowth is a RTS-style, Fast-paced, and Ant Colony Management video game created and published by Slug Disco Studios. The game takes place in the stunning atmosphere and focuses on the queen, who must set up the home beneath the rotting log. During the gameplay, the player must establish an underground colony consists of tunnel and chambers to store raise and food brood. On the surface, the player must claim territories, collect resources, overwhelm arachnids and battle against other colonies. During the gameplay, the player needs to collect resources and add them in his inventory to use when need. The game is played from a top-down perspective and he can receive the points for each completed objectives. He can command the team of ant to clash against rivals to loot their resource. Empires of the Undergrowth includes prominent features such as Overpower Dangerous Beetles, Awesome Arthropods, Build underground Nest, Fast-paced Combat, different Ant Species, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#13 War for the Overworld

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War for the Overworld is a great Real-Time Strategy, management and a Fantasy-based video game by Subterranean Games. The game lets you be an Underlord who lives Underground and is destined to build Dungeons with traps and an underground lair for defense purposes. The only task of the game is to save the underground world from the Overlord heroes with the help of a huge army of Minions. Your best strategies and management skills are the things that can guarantee your safety along with the minions. You must train the Minions to mine and collect different materials as the resourced build defenses and protect your keep against the wrath of the Overlord Heroes. War for the Overworld is a great RTS, Management and Fantasy video game to play and enjoy.

#14 Craft the World

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Craft the World is a marvelous Sandbox Construction, Management, and MMO and RTS Simulation by Black maple games. The Simulation actually lets you be an in charge of a whole big Dwarf Society that with time changes into a fully developed community. Your task is to explore the world around you, collect resources, battles against the monsters, craft different items like “weapons, vehicles, buildings” etc. and discover new technologies to equalize your worth and strengthen your defenses, Defeat your enemies in order to capture their lands and to loot their resources etc. With a number of complex game levels filled with pure awesomeness and fun, amazing amounts of resources, and sandbox aesthetics, wonderful visuals, immersive gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Craft the World is one of the best game to play. Do try it out.

#15 A Game of Dwarves

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A Game of Dwarves is a great RTS Simulation of this specific genre if we compare it with a lot of names out there. The game lets you be the Dwarf Prince and offers wonderful Construction, Management and development elements along with Strategy and tactical aesthetics. A Game of Dwarves allows you to control a whole settlement of dwarfs, build massive structures, develop new technologies, gather and manage resources and keep balance in the consumption of that resources. In the end, you must be able to change a settlement in a fully developed and thriving dwarf civilization. In order to complete the game objectives and reclaiming the land of your ancestors, you must defeat all the dark forces, defend your keeps by using magical skills, weapons, and strategies and finally reclaim what once was yours. With a wonderful story-line, great sandbox style gameplay and brilliant visuals, A Game of Dwarves is one amazing MMO-RTS, Construction, Management and Combat Simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try.

#16 Towns

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Towns is a great Isometric City-Building and Management MMO-RTS simulation that offers a beautiful sandbox style theme. The game leaves you in a partially build piece of land and allows you to manipulate the land as you like it, explore, gather up resources and build structures you want. At the beginning, Towns allows you to choose biomes (Grass, Desert, Snow or Land) process your selected biomes with their own qualities, grow crops or clean the land and wildlife, build homes, farms and other structures by using the resources and eventually build a whole new civilization and help your people thrive in a very friendly environment. With the help of 11 villagers, you must perform the necessary tasks, settle them up in homes and grow the population, befriend neighboring settlements and grow economically, start trade and grow your nation and enjoy playing this marvelous game. Towns as compared to a lot of other titles of the similar nature, is one of the best simulation to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure.

#17 Mount and Blade

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Mount and Blade is a Single-player Action-RPG video game by Paradox Interactive. The game offers Innovative Combat Mechanics, a huge Modding Community and a very Complex Character and Skill System along with loads of fantastic Quests, Maps and a comparable Graphics. With a very minimal game plot, Mount and Blade offers almost hundred percent freedom in manipulating the gameplay and player character specific story. Mount and Blade offers a good amount of dialog in the game and allows the player to make choices that leave a real mark. Because of its unique and innovative Combat mechanics, Mount and Blade offers versatility in combat oriented gameplay and allows the players to enjoy it to the core. The game takes place in a medieval world named as Claradia and it offers a Sandbox style gameplay without any special story. Mount and Blade allows the players to join one of the five battle factions, fight off the enemies as a skilled mercenary or be an outlaw, or fight as both, or be just neutral. The game offers character customization options as well and allows the players to customize the player character by selecting gender, facial features, ethnicity, etc. Furthermore, Mount and Blade lets the players move in the game world by Point-and-Click mechanism, engage in epic PvP battles and win by eliminating the enemies. Every kill in the game rewards the players with “Renown” that helps the players reach higher levels of Expertise and reach to the higher levels of the leadership by acquiring the Vassalage. Players can also have experience points by completing various quests and completing different objectives. With unique characters, great combat mechanics, addictive gameplay and remarkable graphic, Mount and Blade is a great Action-RPG video game to play and enjoy.

#18 Tropico 5

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Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.

#19 Tycoon City: New York

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Tycoon City: New York is a marvelous creation of Deep Red Games. The game is an Open Ended, MMO-Strategy and City-Building SImulation that allows you to build the city of New York and the Island of Manhattan. Your game objective is to build cities most prominent buildings and structures first and then the urban areas and everything else. The most prominent and recognizable landmarks of the city include Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and United nations Headquarters. You as the mayor of the city must build all the buildings carefully and perfectly map them on the terrain. Tycoon City: New York allows you to build the whole city of New York district by district and lets you complete all the tasks perfectly on time to compete your business rivals and unlock more districts to build. Tycoon City: New York is a great city building game that keeps you sitting in front of your monitor for a good amount of time. For a great City Building and simulation experience, you must play this superb game. You’ll definitely like it.

#20 Travian

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Travian is one of the best ever Free-to-Play Browser-based MMO-RTS games ever created. This game offers a very similar experience to Tribal Wars and takes you to the wonderful setting of ancient Rome where your task is to be a skilled leader of a small village rich in almost all kinds of resources. Your task is simply to choose between three equally powerful tribes and start building from scratch. Build houses for your citizens, raise armies, build your defenses in order to defend your settlement and to wage wars against the enemies in order to capture their lands and to expand your own settlement. Resource collection, research and introducing new technologies is the fun part of the game that allows you to show off your supremacy over your enemies and your friends as well. Building markets, starting trade, building strategic and diplomatic relations with other nations, engaging in epic combats with enemies to conquer their lands is what makes this game more addictive. Travian offers great visuals details, a brilliantly immersive game-play and a lot of other cool things to enjoy. Do try it out, its fun playing.

#21 Roads of Rome: New Generation

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Roads of Rome: New Generation is a Real-time Strategy, City-Building, and Single-player video game developed by BigFish. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you create and lead a Roman Empire. Due to an earthquake, your empire has been destroyed and your main objective is to create new shelters, rescue your people, and restore the life. You must build new roads, gather resources, and unlock further content using your experience points. It has four different modes and forty stunning levels. The game becomes more difficult as you progress in it. It unlocks other levels as you complete quests or complete an objective. Craft different items, build amazing houses, buildings, and structures, and prove yourself as the best King. You can control the Empire’s citizen to create different things. The game combines the elements of crafting, building, and you can play the game from an isometric view. With detailed environment, mouse controls, different modes, stunning visuals, win the love of a beautiful girl, gain respects points, and excellent gameplay, Roads of Rome: New Generation is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#22 Build-a-lot

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Build-a-lot is a Construction and Management video game with Business Simulation elements developed and published by HipSoft and supported Single-player mode only. The primary objective of the game is to build as many houses as you can, upgrade and sell them to earn profits. You can flip homes for cash or can gather rent to make funds. It takes place in the exciting world and features up to eight different areas. The game is played from an isometric perspective and contains more than thirty-five levels to complete. It has two separate modes such as Career and Casual. Each mode has a set of objectives to complete and progress through the game. There are three different building types such as Houses, Cultural Buildings, and Functional Buildings. In the game, the player builds his dream world using lots of buildings, items and can decorate it in his style. Attract as many customers as possible and sell houses to make money and use to unlock further upgrades, features, and items to become the business tycoon. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#23 Spacebase DF-9

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Spacebase DF-9 is a great City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation that takes you to an amazing space journey. This wonderful Construction, Development, Real-Time Strategy and management game allows you to maintain your own space station with all the resources you have. With a beautiful space theme, Spacebase DF-9 lets you hire workers for different jobs, build new structures, generate and manage your resources, accommodate your people and eventually grow your space station to other parts of the galaxy. The main task is to find specific points in the galaxy, send explorers, scientists, and workers, settle a small group of people on the discovered area, help them grow by completing different tasks and conquer the worlds. Construction is one of the main objectives of Spacebase DF-9, so you must build structures, defend them against the enemies (Aliens) and keep your people alive by using all the available tactics, strategies and ways possible. This interesting amalgamation of Construction, management MMO and Strategy elements will definitely allow you to have hours of plain entertainment and fun.

#24 Roads of Rome

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Roads of Rome is a Strategy, Time Management, and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Realore. The game takes place in unknown locations around the world full of mysteries and dangers. It puts you in the role of the protagonist, who must explore the beautiful scenes, complete a variety of tasks and progress in the game. You have to follow the romantic story, take up tasks to complete and manipulate barbarian lands to earn points. According to the story, a brave general (the protagonist), falls in love with the daughter of Caesar and wish to marry her. Caesar decides his daughter get married with someone else. Caesar sends his troops to build multiple roads across the land, find new areas and expand his Empire and power. If you complete all these tasks, Caesar will become happy from you. There are a set of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain tasks to progress. Intuitive Controls, Realistic Sound Effects, Four Mini-Games and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#25 Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord

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Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game produced and published by TaleWorlds Entertainment. The game takes place in the medieval settings and it is a prequel to the Mount and Blade: Warband released in 2010. It mixes the elements of exploration, crafting, and building. There are different factions available and the player needs to select one of them to get into the game world where he has to choose his avatar and customize it using multiple options. Explore the world from isometric perspective and struggle to defend his nation from enemies and against factions. The player can recruit his army and train them to battle against rival characters. The game rewards the player with points as he fulfill the tasks. The player can manipulate the world from third-person perspective either on foot or by horseback. Lead his army through multiple environment and participate in battle to kill enemies using sword and other tools. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord is the best game to play and enjoy.

#26 Roads of Rome 3

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Roads of Rome 3 offers an exciting gameplay, revolving around Real-time Strategy, Time Management and Building elements developed and published by Realore for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist, and his ultimate task is to fend off barbarians by fighting against each other and rebuild shelters before time runs out. There are Forty-three ridiculous levels available, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives. During the game, the player controls the character, collect resources like gold, woods, stones, etc. and harvest crops to earn points. The player can use his resources to rebuild bridges, overcome obstacles and make his land beautiful using lots of items and decorations. The story focuses on the female protagonist named as Julia, who lived with his people and enjoy peace. One day, a messenger appears with bad news about Barbarians spreading destruction everything in Roman Province. The player must stop the enemies and rebuild the city to become the master. Roads of Rome 3 offers core features such as Resource Management, Strategy Gameplay, beautiful Graphics and more.

#27 Dungeon Keeper

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Dungeon Keeper Is a Real-Time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Dungeon Crawling, Building and management video game by Bullfrog Productions. The game allows the players to build and manage a number of dungeons, protect them against the hordes of enemies, who intent to steal your treasures. In order to cater with the enemies and monsters, Dungeon Keeper allows you to use a number of magical spells, skills and abilities “Slap” the objects to interact with them etc. Dungeon Keeper offers 20 regions on game map to explore and destroy by the use of weapons provided in the game. The single player mode of the game allows you to enjoy the epic and long campaign modes, crawl through a number of different Dungeons and environments, encounter a number of different types of enemies, bosses and defeat them to earn skill points and unlock the upgrades and stuff. The MMO feature of Dungeon Keeper enables you to interact with other online players and enjoy the game even more. With an isometric and First-person perspective, Zoom in and zoom out options, unique abilities, grid-based game map, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, Dungeon Keeper is a fantastic MMO-RTS, building and management video game to play and enjoy.