You will be granted a remote piece of land, where you can mine a hole in the rock and settle in with your imps.

When the first adventurers show up (their eternal greed always driving them towards your nether realm) you kill them, salvage their equipment and wait for the two you let get away to spread the rumor so even more adventurers come around! The newly aquired gold, can fund a new guard - maybe a giant spider - or if you have enough gold - hire a couple of vampires.

And if trouble comes looking for you, and you've just sent the guards on summer vacation - you may actually have to get up from counting your gold and give a hand yourself.

You will only have imps to begin with. According to Bullfrog (and I believe them) they will be the most intelligent computer creatures to date. You can tell them to take care of different tasks around the cave, such as expansion and maintenance. If you don't give them any chores, they will start cleaning up and strengthen defences around their own pen. And do listen up when strolling the tunnels, for Bullfrog has created a brand-new sound engine.

During the excavations you can get lucky and strike a gold ore, or you might collide with the halls of another Dungeon Keeper and suddenly be the in the wrong end of an invasion. To make matters worse you could also hit the chambers of an ancient evil creature. Only time and a couple thousand shovelfulls of dirt will tell which it will be.