Indie · April 2, 2015

War for the Overworld (2015)

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Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you built your own! Do you feel you’re in a slump, monotonously disembowelling evil guys in endless quests for gold and a slightly better pair of boots? Are you starting to wonder if heroics really are your calling? Then welcome to the War for the Overworld! Excavate and build your dungeon beneath the overworld, in the modern dungeon management game that’s most faithful to the genre’s original DNA. Keep your dungeons, slap your minions, and forge underground fortresses filled with all the dastardly rooms, traps and heinous minions you desire. Do it all under the mentorship of the original and best voice of evil: Richard Ridings! Evil loves options, and within the Veins of Evil there are plenty to go around! Choose from over sixty rooms, spells, potions, rituals, defences and constructs as you progress through the game. Deploy your fiendish tools against the goodly heroes of the overworld, and teach them the price of trespass. With six game modes to choose from you can conquer your enemies in your own unique way. Choose from Campaign, Skirmish, Scenarios, Multiplayer, Survival, and the My Pet Dungeon expansion (free 2-level demo included in the base game), and discover what it truly means to be the bad guy. Build your own maps and campaigns with the intuitive and powerful Map Editor, complete with scripting support, then share them on the Steam Workshop to join the ranks of thousands of custom maps already created! Meddle further, and change the very rules themselves to your liking with dozens of mutators. Being evil has never been so creative! War for the Overworld is developed by an independent team of fanatical developers, each with a true love of the dungeon management genre. We have continued to update the game since launch, with countless patches, balancing, polish, and many new features. Our community has been vital to our success, and we couldn’t have made the game what it is today without their help. We thank them sincerely.

Indie releases from 2015

32 Indie titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Dungeon Crawler · 879
  • Base-Building · 874
  • Villain Protagonist · 870
  • Sandbox · 867
  • Management · 863
  • Dark Comedy · 856
  • Old School · 848
  • Simulation · 846
  • God Game · 537
  • Strategy · 524
  • RTS · 522
  • City Builder · 520
  • Fantasy · 487
  • Underground · 481
  • Singleplayer · 468

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume7.8k Steam reviewsTop 32% in Indie
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 65%
Metacritic65/100Genre average 77 — top 93% of Indie titles
Engagement hours13 h averageTop 48% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Italian
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Polish
  • Japanese
  • Spanish - Latin America volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Spanish - Latin America

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards

Accessibility

  • Captions available

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 7.8k reviews

6.7k positive · 1.1k negative

Metacritic

65/100 critic aggregate

Metacritic user score

7.8/10

Curator recommendations

6.4k

Press Quotes

“If you fancy a modern Dungeon Keeper, War for the Overworld continues to be the best of the bunch.” PC Gamer “It’s evident this game was made with nothing but love for the series it’s so shamelessly inspired by. Subterranean knows exactly what was so thrilling about playing the part of a malicious tyrant.” The Jimquisition “Brightrock Games haven't stopped supporting the game ... In fact, they rolled up their sleeves, listened to feedback, and polished those old dungeons to…

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

13h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

Achievements

142

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 2, 2015
DeveloperBrightrock Games
PublisherMythwright, Brightrock Games
Base price$5.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons8 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Support

Editions & Packages

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