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Videogame Positioning · Aug 15, 2026

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Dungeon Keeper promised hands-on control. The mobile version sold waiting. Here's what that inversion cost.

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In 1997 you played a tyrant. You dug your dungeon by hand, your literal hand, a clawed cursor called the Hand of Evil that reached into the world and grabbed things. You picked up imps and dropped them where you wanted the work done. If they dawdled, you slapped them. The slap made them dig faster. It also, occasionally, killed them, which was part of t…

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