8 Most Notorious Video Game Cash Grabs This Decade

Dungeon Keeper was a beloved strategy game released by EA in the 1990s. Players would have to build and protect their dungeon from enemy invaders by employing minions and dropping them down into strategic places. This alongside other real-time strategy staples like resource management, along with a brilliantly dark sense of humour made Dungeon Keeper a fan favourite for many years.

When EA announced a mobile rebirth of the franchise in 2013, fans were excited if a little nervous. This was EA after all. Unfortunately, EA lived up to their big bad wolf persona and released a shell of a game.

Dungeon Keeper mobile ditched the real-time strategy for a basic tower defence model, much like Clash of Clans. The games main currency was "Gem Veins" which were painfully slow to dig up organically, meaning that upgrades could take several weeks. Naturally, players could buy them using their hard-earned cash to skip the queue. When players did skip the queue, they were still greeted with a buggy and unresponsive game.

Dungeon Keeper Mobile was a watered-down version of Clash of Clans, clearly pushed out to maximise the tower defence boom. What makes this even more sickening is the use of a beloved franchise to sell this mulch.