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- $29.99 (Price checked Nov 6)
- Deck Playable
- 2015
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- Released: 2023
- Developer: Rasmus Ljunggren
- Price: $14.99checked Nov 6
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 64% of 174 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Creature cosmetics are adorable
- Dark mothers writing is entertaining
- Editor mode enables deep customization
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Contemplative
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About Dwelvers
The closest matches to Dwelvers: War for the Overworld, KeeperRL, Dungeons 2, MachiaVillain, and Evil Genius 2: World Domination. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Dwelvers is your kind of game, the closest matches are War for the Overworld, KeeperRL and Dungeons 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its campaign missions and creature cosmetics. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Dwelvers: 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.
Is Dwelvers worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 64% of 174 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $14.99 (checked Nov 6).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 10 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Creature cosmetics are adorable
- Dark mothers writing is entertaining
- Editor mode enables deep customization
- Supply chain economy feels fresh
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“0/10 Game abandoned 2024 update: Still pretty meh. Feels like a last-ditch effort to release the game. Just feels super.... you either blitz the enemy, or the enemy blitz your base, with RNG.”
“bought this game when it was bare bones many years ago, great game but the dev took too long on this, back when he started this would have been so HOT, but now the game just feels wrong, you can still have fun sure but I think we have…”
People who play it also play: War for the Overworld, KeeperRL, Dungeons 2
Frequently asked about Dwelvers
Can I run it?
Does Dwelvers run on Steam Deck?
Dwelvers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Dwelvers cost?
Dwelvers is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dwelvers?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dwelvers are War for the Overworld, KeeperRL, Dungeons 2.
Who developed Dwelvers?
Dwelvers was developed by Rasmus Ljunggren and published by Dancing Devils.