Influence
Due to the popularity and cult status of the series, many reviews of video games that have similar elements mention Dungeon Keeper as both an influence for the designers and a standard for comparison. These include:
- 1999's Lego Rock Raiders
- 2001's Startopia
- 2004's Evil Genius
- 2006's Ghost Master and Dwarf Fortress
- 2007's Overlord and Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!
- 2010's Dungeons
- 2011's Dungeon Overlord an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook.
- The 2009 board game Dungeon Lords has been termed "a non-video game spiritual successor" to Dungeon Keeper.
- 2009's (Full version 2011) Minecraft an independent sandbox-building video game that was developed by Markus Persson, who was partially inspired by Dungeon Keeper.
- War For The Overworld is a project held by its creators Subterranean Games as "a spiritual successor to the franchise in every sense". Its planned 2013 release is pending Kickstarter funding.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The higher the state of civilization, the more completely do the actions of one member of the social body influence all the rest, and the less possible is it for any one man to do a wrong thing without interfering, more or less, with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way. But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)