Games Like Dungeons 3

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27.8% ★, God Game 18.2% ★, Base Building 16.6%, RTS 12.1%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest spiritual successor to the classic dungeon management formula, featuring deep base-building and RTS combat.

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: RTS 24%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it refines the mechanics of the third game with improved building systems and larger scale battles.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49.5% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Management 9%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the villain-protagonist management and base-building loop perfectly within a humorous spy-fi setting.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: God Game 38.8% ★, Villain Protagonist 23.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Strategy 11.1%, RTS 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive classic that established the dungeon-building genre and inspired the entire Dungeons series.

The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 36% ★, RTS 15.5%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Comedy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor that introduced the dual-layer gameplay of managing a dungeon while commanding forces on the surface.

Build your dungeon & protect it with a labyrinth of dark corridors, a web of deadly traps, an arsenal of powerful spells, and an army of bloodthirsty demons

Why similar: God Game 42.9% ★, Villain Protagonist 30.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational title that defined the core mechanics of digging, trapping, and managing a dungeon lair.

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.3% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 7.8%, RTS 6.8%, Comedy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original classic that set the standard for villainous lair management and base defense.

Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 37.1% ★, God Game 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Dark Humor 9.2%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox god-game where you actively cause chaos and misery to test your subjects, mirroring the villainous intent of Dungeons 3.

Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.3% ★, God Game 19.2% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep dungeon management with a focus on complex resource logistics and underground construction.

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 9.3%, God Game 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a monster lair with a similar humorous, villainous tone and grid-based construction.

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!

Why similar: Base Building 28.7%, Management 23.3%, Funny 13.2%, Comedy 12.5%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management side of running a dungeon with a comedic fantasy flair and character-driven progression.

Overlord II, sequel to the critically acclaimed cult hit, sees the return of the chaotic Minions and their new Dark Master. Bigger, badder and more beautifully destructive, Overlord 2 has a Glorious Empire to smash, a massive Netherworld to revive, Minion mounts to mobilize, a trio of mistresses to woo, War Machines to crush opposition...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Dark Humor 8.6%, Comedy 7.8%, Funny 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the "evil overlord" vibe by allowing you to command a horde of minions to wreak havoc on the world.

Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 42.4% ★, RTS 17%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Comedy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original game that popularized the "evil master" gameplay loop and minion-based puzzle solving.

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 34.5% ★, God Game 21.5% ★, RTS 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the dungeon management genre that emphasizes real-time tactics and lair defense.

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: God Game 27% ★, Economy 16.4%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and defense aspects of running a dungeon as a business enterprise.

Deep in the underworld of Ardania, a threat of the most evil nature grows and multiplies with an appetite for destruction that is unsurpassed. Summoned from the depths of the Bottomless Pit, the (once) mighty Báal-Abaddon has been torn from his throne of skulls and imprisoned in an earthly body of less-than-imposing stature (he's an Imp,...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.9% ★, Strategy 44.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly inspired by the dungeon-building genre with a strong focus on RTS combat and creature management.

Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 30.7% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Funny 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the trap-laying and defense aspects of dungeon protection against waves of enemies.

In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes...

Why similar: RTS 47.3%, Strategy 26.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Simulation 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features indirect control of heroes in a fantasy setting, sharing the management spirit of overseeing a kingdom's dark side.

Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 82.4% ★, Dark Humor 9.5%, Funny 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a villain-protagonist raising an army of the dead to conquer the world through action-RPG combat.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49.3% ★, Base Building 17%, Management 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike dungeon builder that emphasizes the management and defense of your lair with high stakes.

Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!

Why similar: Strategy 76.4%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Female Protagonist 3%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep strategy and fantasy management similar to the overworld segments of Dungeons 3.

After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Why similar: God Game 35.8% ★, RTS 24.9%, Economy 17.7%, Management 13.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique RTS and god-game hybrid with floating islands and base-building mechanics.

Assume the role of a mighty (and mighty evil) Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical demesnes underground. 10 different classes of heroes dare to enter your dungeon where 15 different monsters lurk in the dark.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.5% ★, Strategy 29.2%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The original, though clunkier, entry in the series that established the franchise's unique aesthetic.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: God Game 47.1% ★, Base Building 28.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A village-builder with strong god-game and defense elements that requires constant management of resources and threats.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 48.9%, Management 23.5%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 10.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: While a colony sim, it shares the deep base-building and management complexity found in dungeon builders.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 54.7%, Management 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the complex logistics and base-building that dungeon management games require to succeed.

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Why similar: God Game 19.2% ★, Base Building 16.4%, RTS 16%, Management 12.7%, Comedy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game with a similar humorous sci-fi tone and room-based building mechanics.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Management 19%, Economy 15.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the same grid-based management and security design found in dungeon builders, but with a prison theme.

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: God Game 30.7% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Management 12.3%, Comedy 8.2%

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: RTS 20.7%, Base Building 19%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 11%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A modern reboot of the classic management game that features complex room building and station maintenance.

How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 53.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, RTS 8.8%, Dark Humor 8.1%, Comedy 7.3%

Three years after the Purity Wars, Nortander is on the cusp of a new era.

Why similar: RTS 47.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Become a Ghost Keeper and lead your fearsome minions against the living. Use diverse scare tactics, manage demonic creatures and harness dozens of skills. Oh, and don’t let the Brotherhood catch you! The ultimate scaring experience begins…

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 40.7% ★, RTS 17.6%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Isometric 9.9%, Strategy 6.2%

SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!

Why similar: RTS 51.4%, Strategy 19.4%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Base Building 7.4%, Isometric 5.9%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: RTS 33.4%, Base Building 28.2%, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%

The SpellForce 3: Versus Edition gives you the chance to enter the battlefields of Eo for free, letting you test your RTS skills against AI opponents or even other human players.

Why similar: RTS 31.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 18.2%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%

This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.

Why similar: Multiplayer 33.5%, Strategy 31.2%, Comedy 29.6%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.8% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Horror 12%, Comedy 6.6%, Funny 1.9%

The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.

Why similar: RTS 39.8%, Strategy 25.8%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Multiplayer 10%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: God Game 28.8% ★, Economy 21.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 16.4%, Strategy 5.4%

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?

Why similar: RTS 36%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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!

Why similar: Strategy 57.3%, Simulation 42.7%

As a powerful necromancer you have the ability to raise the dead and command them in battle. With each victory, your army will grow stronger and your city will become more powerful. Undead Horde 2 is an action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Rise from the crypt and rebuild!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 58.2% ★, Dark Humor 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Why similar: RTS 25%, Base Building 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Isometric 10.3%

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 34.5%, Strategy 25.5%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 39.3% ★, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders – making Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before!

Why similar: RTS 41%, Real Time Tactics 26.1%, Strategy 21.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Isometric 3.8%

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Why similar: Funny 52.2%, Isometric 37.7%, Singleplayer 10%

Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Why similar: Singleplayer 100%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Base Building 30.5%, RTS 23.4%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 11.8%

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: God Game 28.5% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Economy 11.7%, Management 11.5%

Command the Trolls and lead them on an epic journey across the wild continent of Urgath. As Chieftain of the Moonkin, a tribe driven from its home by tusk hunters and disease, their survival is in your hands.

Why similar: RTS 52.7%, Strategy 25.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Economy 19.9%, Management 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Simulation 8.5%

Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is an Action RPG filled with the series’ black humour and penned by award-winning scriptwriter Rhianna Pratchett. Players embark on an epic new quest in single-player or with up to three friends in co-op, assisted by the mighty, maniacal and occasionally moronic minions.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51% ★, Dark Humor 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Isometric 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.

Why similar: Strategy 44.8%, Simulation 37.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: Strategy 24.3%, Economy 19.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Management 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%

You are the Dragon Commander. Your mission it is to reunite a broken empire and become the new emperor. Success depends entirely on your ability to efficiently rule your empire, build invincible armies and lead them to victory.

Why similar: RTS 52%, Strategy 33.1%, Comedy 6.6%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Management 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%

Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 65.7% ★, Management 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%