Impire sounds a bit Dungeon Keeper-y

Paradox Interactive has announced Impire, a dungeon management strategy game from Cyanide Studio which sounds like it's taking more than a few cues from Dungeon Keeper.

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When a game vaguely resembling Dungeon Keeper is announced, we often lose control of our mental faculties and get in a tizzy hoping it'll come close to Bullfrog's glorious dungeon management strategy-sim. They never do. So listen with interest but keep your cool for Paradox Interactive's announcement of Impire, an dungeon 'em up made by Blood Bowl and A Game of Thrones developer Cyanide.

Yes, as a mighty demon trapped in the body of a puny imp, you'll have to build and manage a fine dungeon. You design your dungeon's layout, as in That Game We Miss Sorely, with different rooms and traps and whatnot. And, of course, you have to raise and power-up an army of darkness. It's set in the same universe as the Majesty series, if that means anything to you.

Along with a campaign playable in single-player or co-op, Impire offers several multiplayer modes.

Impire is slated to launch for PC in the first quarter of 2013.

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    July 31, 2012 9:00 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Impire sounds a bit Dungeon Keeper-y.

    Paradox Interactive has announced Impire, a dungeon management strategy game from Cyanide Studio which sounds like it's taking more than a few cues from Dungeon Keeper.

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      July 31, 2012 9:09 AM

      I'm down for anything resembling DK. Does anyone remember Startopia? That was amazing, just needed more missions.

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        July 31, 2012 9:11 AM

        Hello fellow Startopia lover! I just wish it ran on Win7 :(

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          July 31, 2012 10:25 AM

          I've had it running on W7, I don't remember what I had to do, but it is possible.

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        July 31, 2012 9:34 AM

        I'm not sure if I'm down for anything resembling DK. Didn't particularly care for the demo of Kalypso's Dungeons.

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          July 31, 2012 9:46 AM

          Dungeons was more of a tower defense dressed in dungeon management sim sauce.

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        July 31, 2012 10:40 AM

        startopia is one of my alltime fav games \mmmmmmm/

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      July 31, 2012 9:47 AM

      About time we got another Dungeon Keeper. Christ.

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      July 31, 2012 11:28 AM

      From the developers of the Game Of Thrones titles? That automatically raises alarm bells since I recall both of those were mediocre....

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