Dungeons 3 - Evil of the Caribbean (DLC)

Dungeons 3 - Evil of the Caribbean is a DLC expansion for Dungeons 3, the dungeon-builder hybrid that mixes Dungeon Keeper-style underground construction with real-time strategy overworld combat. If you haven't played the base game, the loop is: dig out rooms, summon creatures, manage a dungeon ecosystem, then send your army topside to wreck the forces of good. This expansion wraps that formula in a pirate theme, dropping the Dungeon Lord into Caribbean-inspired maps with new objectives, new enemies, and a handful of new trap and unit types that fit the setting. Think kraken references, skeleton pirates, and map layouts built around coastal chokepoints instead of the usual inland fortress structures. From a mechanical standpoint, Evil of the Caribbean does not reinvent the wheel. What it does is deliver a fresh set of mission-design problems against the Dungeons 3 engine, which honestly still holds up. The overworld combat remains the weakest link. Unit pathfinding can be stubborn, especially when you're trying to push through narrow coastal corridors, and the AI doesn't punish poorly managed army compositions the way a dedicated RTS would. But the dungeon-side decisions, picking which rooms to prioritize, which creature types to recruit, how aggressively to expand into contested underground territory, carry enough weight to keep the session interesting. The new trap options added in this DLC have situational value and give you a few more levers to pull during the inevitable hero raids. For players coming from grand-strategy or deep simulation backgrounds, a word of honest calibration: Dungeons 3 is not that kind of deep. The numbers matter, but you are not optimizing production chains across a 200-hour campaign. What you are doing is making a sequence of medium-weight decisions over missions that run roughly 40 to 90 minutes each. The DLC adds several maps in that format. The humor leans hard on fourth-wall jokes and fantasy trope parody, narrated with the same dry British delivery that carries the base game. Whether that lands depends entirely on your tolerance for self-aware camp. The writing in Evil of the Caribbean stays consistent with the main game's quality, which is to say it is genuinely funny in spots and occasionally too pleased with itself. The expansion sits alongside the other Dungeons 3 DLC packs in terms of scope. It's not a systems overhaul or a new game mode. It's more campaign content with light thematic dressing. For players who burned through the base game and its other expansions and want a reason to reload the launcher, this delivers that reason cleanly. The pirate setting gives the level designers room to build maps that feel different from the base campaign's forest-and-dungeon aesthetic, and the mission objectives introduce enough variation to avoid feeling like a content patch dressed up as a premium release. Whether that exchange is worth it depends on how much you liked the first few hours of Dungeons 3. If the answer is a lot, Evil of the Caribbean gives you more of that thing you liked.

Diego · Scout Team

Strategy & simulation

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