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Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

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Quick resume

Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Global score

79/100

Genres

Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy

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    Pros

    • Engaging strategic gameplay
    • Strong fantasy theme
    • Good progression and replayability
    • Polished pixel art and sound
    • Turn-based pacing allows flexible play

    Cons

    • Limited dungeon layout customization
    • Some balance and content depth issues
    • Repetitive after extended play
    • Lack of multiplayer or social features
    • Some rng frustration in encounters

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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      "The game requires skillful planning and strategic thinking to overcome challenging enemies and bosses."

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Roguelite structure with progression and unlocks encourages repeated play and long-term engagement."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Gameplay is single-player focused with no cooperative multiplayer elements."

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    • Creativity

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      "Players build and customize dungeons, choose unit compositions and research paths, and use traps creatively."

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    • Domination

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      "Interactions are balanced and respectful; no evidence of exerting control or superiority over others."

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    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game as a fun, casual distraction with immersive fantasy settings and engaging gameplay loops."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of intrinsic interest and enjoyment rather than obligation or pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Players try different strategies, monster and trap combinations, and adapt to random events, encouraging experimentation."

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    • Exploration

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      "Dungeon layouts are fixed per dungeon type; exploration is limited and mostly linear."

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    • Expression

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      "Character customization and skill trees allow some degree of personal expression."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Strong fantasy theme with imaginative creatures, dark humor, and playing as an evil dungeon lord."

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    • Fellowship

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      "Primarily a solo experience with minimal social interaction or community involvement in gameplay."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills, learn mechanics, and progress through talent trees and unlocks."

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention during combat and progression; not designed for passive or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "No close relationships or emotional sharing described; solitary gameplay."

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    • Leadership

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      3

      "Players lead and manage their dungeon and minions, making strategic decisions and guiding their forces."

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      "Players lead their dungeon masters and manage teams of monsters and traps strategically."

    • Progression

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      "Strong progression through leveling, unlocking weapons, monsters, and upgrades."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Turn-based pacing allows players to think and relax, though some difficulty spikes add tension."

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    • Sensation

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      "Enjoyable pixel art, sound effects, and music provide sensory stimulation and fun."

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    • Status

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      "Achievements and progress are personal; no emphasis on social recognition or popularity."

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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      "Some suspense from RNG and challenging encounters, but overall controlled turn-based gameplay."

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026