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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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Michael Lamb (late–20th century)