Dungeon Keeper

Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from invading 'hero' characters intent on stealing the player's accumulated…

10 26 June 1997 10 cheats

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Action Comedy Fantasy Horror

Dungeon Keeper is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Bullfrog Productions, released 26 June 1997 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 10 cheat codes for it.

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Dungeon Keeper is

Dungeon Keeper is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released in 1997. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Casting the player in the role of a malevolent Dungeon Keeper, the game turns the traditional fantasy quest on its head. Rather than a noble hero, the player is the villain, tasked with carving out and managing a sprawling underground dungeon deep beneath the earth. From this dark domain, the Keeper recruits and cares for a host of monstrous minions, digging out chambers, hoarding treasure, and preparing for war. But the dungeon is far from safe: righteous "hero" adventurers repeatedly invade, seeking to plunder its riches, slay its creatures, and bring about the Keeper's downfall. Beating back these intruders is only the beginning. The ultimate ambition is nothing less than total conquest…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dungeon Keeper holds a critic score of 10 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 55 points below the year average. Players rate it 47, 37 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Dungeon Keeper launched on 26 June 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game and Lula: The Sexy Empire. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 10 cheat entries for Dungeon Keeper — 5 cheat codes, 3 easter eggs, 1 secret and 1 tip. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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