War for the Overworld
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War for the Overworld

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

DEV: Brightrock GamesPUB: Mythwright, Brightrock GamesAppID 230190

Is War for the Overworld still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

85.2
Strong

Elixir Rating

85.9% of 8,133 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 85.2. It is a finished game, so no support adjustment applies either way.

reception 85.2·support +0.0·Strong

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$5.99$29.99−80%

Development

Insufficient evidence

Last heard from developers

6 months ago

Historical posting rhythm

every ~77 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

1

Current silence

cannot be judged

Our news coverage needs a fresh check; missing posts are not evidence that development has stopped. 1 substantial update recorded in the past six months. It is currently 80% below its usual price.

Last successful news check: Sep 27, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC. This is when we checked Steam, separate from when the developer last posted. A fresh check is needed before judging current activity.

Two years of development

■ substantial ■ routine

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6 announcements · 2 substantial · 20 months with nothing

Recent Transmissions

30 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsApr 22, 2026
Patch 2.1.4: Two New Hands, Graphics Updates & Masters of Albion Bundle

Darkest greetings, directors/cleaners/underlords! Quite an eccentric resume, there.We’re still up to our elbows in Kaiju guts, and the next War for the Overworld game remains in early pre-production, but when we realised it’s been a bit sin…

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Community AnnouncementsSep 28, 2025
Brightrock’s Next Game — Kaiju Cleanup — Studio Update & War for the Overworld

Darkest greetings Underlords, Entranced in their darkest worships your cultists study visions of a distant and unusual realm; one overrun with gargantuan monsters, brought low by overwhelming firepower and swiftly picked apart as if descend…

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Community AnnouncementsMay 9, 2025
Hotfix Patch 2.1.3f1 - Release Notes

Fixed an issue where the High-Cost options toggle did not appropriately enable the high-cost options on shadow type and distance Rearranged the options menu

Community AnnouncementsMay 7, 2025
War for the Overworld x Dungeon Keeper Bundle

Darkest greetings Underlords, Today we bring you some terrific news courtesy of the devilishly brilliant efforts of Mythwright, War for the Overworld's new publisher, the pact with whom you can read more about in our 10 Year Anniversary Upd…

GamingOnLinuxApr 14, 2025
Dungeon Keeper-like game War for the Overworld got a surprise ten year anniversary update

War for the Overworld from Brightrock Games just recently hit the 10 year anniversary, and so to celebrate the developers released a brand new update to their classic Dungeon Keeper-like. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinu…

Community AnnouncementsApr 2, 2025
Ten Year Anniversary Update, New & Exclusive Skins. What's Next?

Darkest greetings Underlords, Yesterday, your cultists brought word of an astounding new development in the War for the Overworld multiverse which, as many of you no doubt surmised, was a most ingenious and clever ruse in honour of a specia…

Community AnnouncementsApr 1, 2025
[April Fools] The Next Logical Step - World of War for the Overworld Online!

Darkest Greetings Underlords, Emerging from our dormancy, we blink, raising our arthritic hands to block out the invading light carried by the gnarled imp that appears at our door. “Master”, it gurgles from its awful, malformed gullet, “the…

Community AnnouncementsSep 19, 2024
Patch 2.1.2, Imp Plushies & New Worker Skin

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Today we bring tidings of a new minor patch, a new pact through which you can take home a little devil and new allies whose efforts to bring despair upon the goodly folks of the surface may excite you. Read on U…

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Community AnnouncementsMay 23, 2024
Patch 2.1.1 "From Beyond" Release Notes - Galacticare Release & Worker Skin

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Today we release both a new creation, Galacticare and a small but mighty patch for War for the Overworld. Read on Underlord! Patch v2.1.1 "From Beyond" Patch Highlights Medi Worker Skin To celebrate the release …

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Community AnnouncementsMay 7, 2024
New Worker Skin Details, Galacticare Release Date & WFTO Community News

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Beyond the walls of the dungeon the aether continues to churn and new discoveries are stumbled upon by your most loyal cultists. Read on to discover the latest developments from across the Aether. New Worker Ski…

Community AnnouncementsSep 14, 2023
Geforce Now Support, Regional Pricing Updates & Unity...

Darkest Greetings Underlord, We have a couple of short, almost businessy, announcements for you today, first a long requested service becoming available at last and second some updates regarding War for the Overworld’s regional pricing whic…

Community AnnouncementsJul 21, 2023
Celebrating Simfest 2023

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Cast through the aether news of a grand festival has reached the ears of our eager cultists. Simfest 2023 is on and our friends at Auroch Digital have extended us an invitation. Naturally we would be remiss not …

Community AnnouncementsJul 13, 2023
Hotfix: Newsletter Signup & Postal Worker Skin Unlock

Darkest Greetings Underlord, This is a minor fix to ensure that users can still unlock the Postal Worker Skin by signing up to the Brightrock Games newsletter. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue which prevented users from signing up to the Brightrock…

Community AnnouncementsJun 20, 2023
Invaders From Beyond

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Far above the warmth of your dungeon, something stirs in its antipode; cold, unfeeling beings, drifting in the void, “tending”, and “tinkering”, and mopping up strange vomit, and driven overall by the benign int…

Community AnnouncementsMay 10, 2023
From the Underworld to the Stars

Darkest Greetings Underlords, After a long period of silence, we’d like to provide an update as to what we’ve been doing the past few years. This post is being crossposted from the new Galacticare development blog, where we also just posted…

Community AnnouncementsApr 1, 2023
We're The Fools

Darkest Greetings Underlord, Is it strange to apologize for the lack of an unobligated yet fun yearly gaff? We’re honestly not sure. We’ve certainly never seen it happen but we can’t remain silent today. What we do know is that on this day,…

Community AnnouncementsMar 13, 2023
War for the Overworld & Galacticare Developer Q&A

Darkest Greetings Underlord, This Thursday the 16th of March we will be hosting a Q&A Session on our Discord server where we'll be answering your questions regarding our upcoming new title: Galacticare! https://store.steampowered.com/app/49…

Community AnnouncementsMar 9, 2023
Introducing Galacticare! | Announcement Trailer

Hello everyone! Today we’re thrilled to finally unveil our next game: Galacticare, a hospital management game set in a weird and wacky sci-fi universe, releasing later in 2023. Check out the reveal trailer below. Be sure to wishlist and fol…

Community AnnouncementsAug 23, 2022
Wicked Ones RPG HQ Print Run Kickstarter w/ WFTO Book!

Darkest Greetings Underlords, If you were to cast your dark minds back to the year of 2019 you might remember brighter days or indeed darker ones. You might also remember the start of our partnership with Bandit Camp the devilishly delightf…

Community AnnouncementsApr 14, 2022
Hotfix Patch 2.1.0f4 Release Notes

Hotfix Patch 2.1.0f4 - Release Notes Fixed a random crash issue CopyMightyScript and ImportMightyScript debug commands now function again, are no longer case sensitive and do not require debug mode to be unlocked Fixed an issue where Shadow…

GamingOnLinuxApr 13, 2022
War for the Overworld gets a surprise graphics upgrade, also sees a big discount

War for the Overworld, a Dungeon Keeper inspired game from 2015 had a huge free upgrade recently bringing some graphical improvements and performance optimizations. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/war-for-t…

Community AnnouncementsApr 12, 2022
Patch 2.1 "Deeper Darker Dungeons" Release Notes

Darkest Greetings Underlord, As promised a mere 11 days ago we have returned to this realm, dragging a surprise War for the Overworld patch kicking and screaming from the depths. This patch is a special one as it celebrates, somewhat belate…

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Community AnnouncementsApr 1, 2022
(April Fools) Introducing our next game Cult of Duty! & WFTO v4.1

Rarest Greetings Underlords, Once again, we pop out from the dingy depths of our caverns and gaze upwards towards the untarnished and needlessly fungible Overworld! The surfacers’ schemes bring them ever closer to ruin, and we must merely w…

Community AnnouncementsOct 11, 2021
Supporting Child's Play: War for the Overworld Campaign Guide for Wicked Ones

Darkest Greetings Underlords, It has been some time hasn’t it? Rest assured that the dark work on our next project continues undeterred and unabated and that soon enough all shall be revealed to you. In the meantime we once more reach out t…

Community AnnouncementsSep 20, 2021
Patch 2.0.8 Release Notes

https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/Archon-Blank.gif Patch Highlights Edit 22/09/2021: We've become aware that a small number of users now have a different crash on startup in v2.0.8 please read this thread on how you can help and how t…

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Community AnnouncementsApr 19, 2021
Up to 80% off War for the Overworld & Free Worker Skin!

https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/Worker-Strategy.gif Darkest greetings Underlord, Every year the Oni Ashigaru worker returns from his year-long wanderings. Waging honourable warfare, saving the denizens of the Underworld from roving …

Community AnnouncementsApr 1, 2021
Grab the Power Hand of Evil™

Most Overdue Greetings Underlord, It has been some time since we shared news from within the fortified walls of the Brightrock foundry but for good reason! Our Augres have been hard at work crafting the true form of Project: Aftercare and i…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 11, 2021
Lunar New Year Sale - Grab your Dragon Worker!

https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/Dragon-Worker-Steam-Banner-gif-1.gif Most Auspicious Greetings Underlord, The Lunar New Year is upon us once more and in celebration, the ever lucky Dragon Worker has returned to bring you his blessin…

Community AnnouncementsDec 31, 2020
Wicked Ones Release & End of 2020 Community spotlight

https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/Wicked-Ones-Steam-Banner.jpg Darkest greetings Underlords, Through the darkest of tunnels we can see a light flickering at the end, not a mere torchlight but one of blazing radiance. With the last hou…

Community AnnouncementsSep 7, 2020
Studio Update & Q3 Community Spotlight

https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/Dev-Stream.gif Darkest greetings Underlords, As the world above battles with the seemingly cursed year that is 2020. The crash of steel on reverberates through the long-dormant halls of the Underworld…

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