Recognized many games. But... are you seriously going out of your way to experience a Necromancer in fantasy setting and ignoring modded Elder Scrolls/modded Skyrim specifically? Granted, you'll need a modpack that lets you do most with Necromancy, but c'mon.
For a non-combat necromancer, Graveyard Keeper does have a pretty fun necromancy mechanic. Like Stardew valley with necromancy and a bit more of an edge to it. Using reanimated undead to automate chores, which allows you to get on with the rest of the game
to be fair necromancers are basically the "let the minions handle it"/"die once and have to rebuild your army all over again" class so it's very fitting that most of these are either auto battlers or rouge likes
Dominions series has the best necromancy in any stragegy game, yep just straight up. Poison the air, accelerate aging, turn off the sun then watch as your enemies rot alive trying to stop your undead roman legions without any food, in total darkness, while their priests all busy dying from old age. Then get into a fight with r'lyeh, watch helplessly as they minburn, soulslay, or mind control every actually sentient part of your army, as your undead legions crumble to dust without any undead leadership left. You can summon hordes of undead, summon hordes of undead giants, turn your commanders into liches , destroy the world with global disasters, curse your living soldiers to turn into undead as they die, attempt to control your opponents undead, sacrifice virgins to create vampires and so on. And then there are undead specific divine magic, blessings, cross-path magic, magical items. Not enough? Try mods.
Yes! I must add that dominions 6 is most recent and content rich game of series, so you can just start from this one. And this game is have so much necromancy content. You have so much different kinds of undead. Zombies, skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, vampires. Many of monsters have undead forms. Like zombie or ghost giants, or skeleton bird people. You also have undead of different cultures. Like ancient german undead, Egypt-reptile undead, roman undead. And you even have different form factors! Like arcane undead, plant undead, devine ones, and that's just scratches a surface. Game have so much necromancy content, you will have to spend months to even try it out. But it's not just content. This game is one of deepest ones mechanically, that I ever seen. I recommend it to everyone.
Absolutely. The game is a bit complicated and the graphics aren't that great, but the mechanics and flavors of the game are fantastic. Every faction has access to any magic school and anyone can be a necromancer, but certain factions are specialized towards it in their own flavorful way. Want an undead roman legion? Of which kind? The ghost or the skeletal kind? What about an army of undead monkeys lead by powerful demonic rakshasas? Would you like to venture deep into the earth and bind the wandering bodies of the ancient pale ones to your service? Why use death magic to move a body when you can wrap it in vines, worms, and other things that crawl? You can also be the lizards and get banned because your faction is broken in MP.
Total War: Warhammer actually has THREE necromantic factions. The Vampire Counts (Who have a fair variety even just between their sub-factions), the Vampire Coast (Vampirates with zombie musketeer minions), and the Tomb Kings, which none of the comments you highlighted mentioned. They're "Totally not Egyptian" necromancers with mummies for lords, and their bread and butter are skeleton armies with skeleton archers backing them up. Also skeleton chariots (Which are themselves built out of bones), before you even get into their animated statuary...
@RisingBlurTR Honestly forgot that was a thing for RUclips creators. Now that I've seen it all back to back now I can't help but notice that Age of Wonders 4 not on there. Think of it as total war but not as strict on what you can do. Hell you can make your own necromancer based faction complete with customizing your hero. Mehhh it's probably already on a list of things you have to go through anyways
@@slymilitiaman9171 This! Not only can you just be a straight necromancer with undead armies, you can also infuse weapons of your heroes to summon undead whenever they kill stuff. It's just for that battle but still bonkers.
"Spellforce Conquest of EO" has some nice necromancy. You capture the souls of your enemies and craft an undead army. Recruit cheap expendable units for low tier undead spam. Cannabalize might be the most used spell by necromancers, skeletons. "Eador" is recommandable you have to be evil though. Well there are some benefits in being evil. The "Dominions" series has a great magic system and fun necromancy but you would probably need time to learn it. Some tutorial videos will help.
The Roguelike Tales of Maj'Eyal is good, has a necromancer-class and even has the option of becoming a lich. But most classes (and races) require unlocking.
I really love games that allow you to play as necromancers. There is something deeply satisfying about using killed enemies for your own army. One of the first things I did in Age of Wonders 4 was to create a necromancer race. I also remember a multiplayer tactics game called Pox Nora fondly that had an undead faction. If you had enough zombie units they would get a buff called "zombie apocalypse" which adds a nasty debuff to their attacks. Killed enemy units with this debuff would rise again as zombies under your control. The zombies were pretty weak but you could snowball them really hard and just throw them at your enemy as disposable cannon fodder while keeping your more valuable units safe.
this is why i wanna play a necromancer in games like ttrpgs like dnd and pathfinder, there is something about throwing tons of bodies at the problem, besides its recycling because you are re-using corpses, you are also creating jobs
ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) has a full Necromancer class with some cool looking minions and soul-based spells. They even have an Ultimate that turns yourself into a giant mass of skeletons.
Overlord is such a great game, absolute classic, my childhood favourite. I wish we had Overlord: but with a necromancer. So glad to see it get the love it deserves. Overlord 2 has a mechanic to resurrect specific minions meaning it qualifies as a necromancer game even harder! Looking forward to the next video!
bro you unlocked a core memory with Darksiders 2, thank you. i remember playing it when it released but i spent so f***ing long not remembering what it was called.
Recently finished the content of V Rising with my Buddy in co-op, and mainly employed a build I've called the 'Texas Necromancer', which consisted of Dual Guns that blighted enemies (so they rise as my skeletal minion after death), an single target spell that damaged enemies and spawned a skeleton on hit (which was doubled by a Gem), an AoE which blighted enemies, healed my minions and reset their timer and an Ultimate which spawned even more Skellies. Really powerful against groups, a bit weaker against quicker Bosses because you can't really keep a meaningful Number of Minions up, but a fun game if you like Survival Base Building.
First, I want to say congrats on making it this far my fellow necromancer, and second if you haven't seen it yet, I would highly suggest V Rising, where you're a vampire trying to become overlord, with lots of spells, and prisoners, for minions including skelly boys pretty early on
Yeah! I‘m still currently playing through the game as the other two acolyte specifications and I know that the early game can be kinda boring after a bit. But the endgame is really really fun.
I actually came up with a necromancer class for my game concept(that i have yet to make) called Dragoneers. The games essentially a VR fantasy looter shooter mmo, with classes. I though it would be cool to add a necromancer class, I mean who doesnt wanna be a lord of the dead, in VR! The idea was that youd get a spell tome in your left hand and Skull Censor in your right hand. Using the buttons on your left youd look through the spells in your book and get them prepped for casting. Then you cast them with the censor, however each spell costs souls which you can claim by killing enemies with a tracking flaming skull attack. Get enough souls and you can summon a minion, with a limit of 6 small minions, however you can then combine those minions into upgraded versions. In total you can have 1 behemoth, 3 bone mages, 3 bone archers, and 6 regular minions at one time. A bone mage would cost 2 minions to make, same with the archer, and the behemoth would cost all 6 minions. Plus you can augment and change the spells with upgrades. :3 again its all just conceptual and i have little work done on it.
middle earth Shadow of war: There is a full set of necromancer gear that you can earn that gives a percentage chance of those you kill to come back to life and fight for you. Each gear set either buffs your dead or raises the chance of you bringing them back. so with the amount of times you can kill something you tend to notice them running around you or at least I did :)
I have been modding Elden ring and made a few spirit ash replacements that include lovely skeletal bois. I replaced the militia men with 7 skeletal curved sword minions and 3 bowmen. I also replaced the skeletal assassin with 5 Large sword and shield skeletons and 5 crossbow skeletons. Currently have them balanced for pvp summons with my buddy but I can certainly release a version for the public if anyone would like.
Wow the "total war: warhammer 3" part was so funny. I played the ogre kingdom once, but i did not know you coud play as necromancers, too. I must play it again!
If ya have yet to do so just know. You have 2 flavors of necro. We have pure bog standard vamps and necros. Then we got pirates! Yes fucking ZOMBIE PIRATES WHOS LORD NECRO! Or just part time necro as one of the pirate lords os just a crazy norska who HAD A FISH TAIL AND LIMBS! But decided to cut them off and take to the sea... She from memory don't know how to swim XD btw aside from 3 vamp flavors with a loving couple who are always togeather counting as 2 (options bit really only one of em is active lord the other becomes a hero unit) ya then got the 2 necros of the normal flavor. To finish the porates we have the fat lady not wanting to sing her last thus making it EVERY GOD DAM DARK ELVES PROBLEM. And a once normal vamplord necro dude who got mega scitzo and multiple personality problem. Thinks to fat fucking toads.
Ah, what an oddity, no one said tales of Maj'eyal! In TOME You have an actuall necromancer class, including a LOT of summoning and minion-related skills, eventually you can literally have an army of undead and become a immortal lich yourself!
The moment I get a legendary helmet for necromancer in Last Epoch.. BIG A** GRIM REAPER summonning wraiths and shooting necrotic lasers.. A power up from abomination build I had that when summonning it I was holding the skill button for half a minute because my passives and gear kept on reviving and summoning new sacrifices for it.. I can't remember when playing any necromancer felt that awesome
Also the ability to for example build whole army as fire, cold or poison/necrotic one.. Too little time and I want to check all builds.. Meybe I will try to play offline and copy a reseted max lvl character to try different combinations. Shame that relic for archer class that turns poison flask into a frost one won't work on skeletal rogues ;/
Just thought I'd mention an older and kinda obscure game made by Shiny Entertainment and released in 2000 called Sacrifice. Not entirely necromantic, but the basic mechanics do have a parallel to it. You play as a mage (I know, shocking) and get to pick between 5 gods (multiple times, you aren't locked into one): Persephone the goddess of life, Pyro the god of fire/invention/industry, Stratos the god of air/knowledge (voiced by Tim Curry in english doing his absolute best condescending smarmy voice), James (yes seriously) the god of Earth and Charnel the god of Death. The basic mechanics (and sadly a lot of the basic creature mechanics) however don't really change between each, you have mana to cast spells and souls that are needed to summon monsters. Getting more souls involves either killing creatures (or innocent villagers) on the current campaign map and hoovering up their souls, or killing off parts of your opponents forces and casting a spell to convert their fallen creature's souls for you to use. While this is going on they do the same to you. So no matter who you choose to work for there's a pseudo necromantic tone to it. Though Charnel does at one point grant an actual raise dead spell and a non-controllable summon that's...a fairly recognisable figure. The game's a bit tongue in cheek, though quite willing to take itself seriously and a little jank to actually play. It's primarily a pseudo 3rd person action game pasted on top of a combat focused RTS where the only resources are the mana and souls previously mentioned (though there are nodes on the map to capture for more mana regen). A bit of a warning though, much like many of the genre-mashup games from back then it's kinda bastard hard, with the final level of any campaign potentially being an absolute slog. Still a fun romp though. Oh and sorry for the wall of text (if you read it) I didn't intend for it to be this long. Honest.
One of the best necromancer experiences I've had is from Heroes of Might and Magic 3. There's an HD version on steam, but it doesn't have the Shadow of Death expansion, which has a campaign specifically dedicated to a necromancer.
I love Last Epoch and the squirrel build that primalist gets, because nothing speaks "respect" as much as a gang of murderous squirrels applying bleed to everyone
Dominion series are 4x with all tropes of fantasies imaginable and there is several factions revolving more or less about necromancy. Somes are about skelettons, others about spirits, an other is literally plants infecting things and making a vegetal zombie army.
Just discovered your channel because the Wonderous Algorithm, blessed be, had this video pop up. I also love playing Necromancers if they're available. So many games get them wrong, or at least "wrong" from my opinion/perspective. Really enjoying watching this. I'm sure you've heard this a ton already, but definitely give GW2's Necro more a chance at 80, especially after you've had a lot more time to spend getting points to max some of the builds to get the abilities. The Minion-mancer is so much fun.
1:17:00 you actually can raise 5 more undead companions during the game. 1st one can be resurrected at the start of act 3, if you choose to keep body of the act 2 boss.
I suggest Age Of wonders 3, or age of wonders 4. In Age of wonders 3, there is literally the Necro class, and in age of wonders 4 there are several tomes of power that give necro abilities to your leader, heroes and army Also, since you mentioned Bloons TD, I want to inform you that there is also a Necromancer tower in kingdom rush frontiers and also in Kingdom rush Alliance. Those towers raise actual skeletons
A fun one that has undead within it is Stubbs the zombie. You are a zombie and when you kill someone they turn into a zombie. You can't control them but its still a fun old game
@@RisingBlurTR I hope you enjoy the game. Its a classic from my youth and the music is actually really good. Lots of remakes of classic songs like sandman and earth angel
Path of exile mentioned yippy... yeah poe summoners builds are uh, nutty. My favorite was my poets pen srs meat cannon build 😂, the build worked by more or less dropping summons directly into packs and then blowing up my own summons for rediculous amounts of fire damage, the best part was that it was back when your own summons corpses worked for corpse explosion, so i could get 2 detonations from each summon, dont remember exactly what they changed that finally killed that build but i took it all the way to level 100 and it was the only character i ever took all the way to 100 (for anyone who hasnt played, getting max character level is a milestone most players never accomplish bc it requires doing endgame content consistently fast without dying bc dying costs you xp to your next level so if you just die every map youll literally never level up)
There are three games you might might not be aware of having a Necromancer like class/skills. One of them is Sacred 2 Fallen Angel where you can play as the Shadow Warrior who is an undead warrior who can summon upgradable skeletons, a skull turret, and just raise nearby slain enemies for a short time. And while not nearly as cool there is also the Dryad from Sacred 2 Fallen Angel who via the skill Moribund Animus can use the shrunken head of an enemy to summon their ghost to fight alongside her. The second game is Divinity 2 Dragon Knight Saga where in the Priest skill tree you can summon a zombie to fight with you, a ghost to heal you, or a demon to fight with you and then when you get your battle tower a.k.a your home base you can go to your Necromancy platform and customize your own undead creation using slain enemies body parts which change the creatures' stats, skills, and class in order to complement your own. And the final game is Conan Exiles where if you unlock sorcery and upgrade it enough you get all sorts of necromantic abilities and crafting items such as, soul orbs to make floating soul lights to act as your torch, burying slain thralls in graves to raise as temporary zombies which with the right perk allows two of them to follow you at once or one that gets decently buffed, and a spell that coats a decently sized area in fog and summons numerous zombies to fight any and all enemies in the area for a time. I'd also like to add Tainted Grail Conquest which has a Necromancer class that is incredibly fun and powerful if you play it right.
Yo I'm actually the guy who made the official fear & hunger discord, I kinda know orange (The dev) he's pretty cool, anyway Let me know if you do the stream I might pop in~
one game with one of the best feelings of being a necromancer is definitely Warlords Battlecry 2 or 3, literally summon your army, upgrade them into ghouls/death knights or liches or just turn them into ghosts/specters and rush your enemies, still one of the best games, pretty cheap too on GOG
KeeperRL is also great. You're can play as a dungeon master, creating your army of goblins, harpies, and, of course, zombies/vampires. You even have the possibility to be a lich and only create undead monsters from corpses. Great game !
The original guild wars was much more necromancer then the second. It's kind of funny it is harder at first because you need to actualy kill things before you can summon undead then it get's easier as time goes on as you get more undead.
Well, in Baldurs Gate 3 on the higher levels, you can cast the animate dead spell on higher levels with a higher spell slot, and get more undead out of it, and start to overwhelm the enemy with numbers!
Guild Wars 1 actually has a minion master necromancer which is all about summoning and buffing the minions. It's decently challenging to unlock all of the bonus spells because some of them are deeper into the game or in hard missions.
Not sure if this comment will be seen or if someone else already mentioned it but not only is there necromancy wizard for baldur's gate 3 but there is also circle of the spores druid, basically in addition to the animate dead spell you also gain extra abilities for left 4 dead type fungal zombies that may be weaker but can turn non-humanoid creatures to your side, and they lack a limit of how many you can have out trading it for a limited amount casted, multiclassing 6 necro wizard and 6 spore druid would get the best of both worlds in terms of necromancy
Don’t worry I read every comment! Even if I may not answer. And yeah, the spore Druid was mentioned A BUNCH already lol. I definitely have to try them at some point as well!
Heroes of Might and Magic series is also incredible. There was one necromancer in HoMaM V that was so incredibly broken, the more you attack him the bigger army he has lol
About Baldur's Gate 3 at the higher levels you can have an army not even counting the WWZ Zombie with infection. Animate Dead i think can do 4 undead(Flying Ghouls can fly and paralyse, OP), then you also get Create Undead, mostly used for the Mummy. There is also a spell if you get a certain forbidden book and do its stuff on Act 3. Gives you an extra 5 Ghouls straight up. Now this is already 10 summons to do extra work for you. It gets crazier tho. Then you have all sorts of other summons, minor elemental(always summons 3) and just normal elemental and a higher version, Myrmidon. Then there is a Quasit, which isnt strong alone but can surprise enemies, which pretty much guarentees victory for most battles. Of high level summons theres Deva, its not that easy to get, but can be scribed into a wizard's spellbook. That makes 16, you can probably get a few more. Gotta know the game. :D
Death knights from world of warcraft are very necromancer like. There unholy speck can have two undead followers at all time. Then they have a move to pop blisters off of enemies and more undead fall out. then they can summon an army of the dead witch summons even more undead for a short period of time. It's great fun.
I would recommend Spellforce Platinum edition. You can summon skeletons, zombie Goblins and other undead creatures. The Skeletons even change their appearance every few levels.
Damn looking at that older build for Soulstone Survivors brings back memories. And now today they released a patch where his abominations buff other summons and the necro himself
You're talking to my soul! I love necromancer's and the necromancy skills and spells! It's just so awesome! Edit: Also love that small intro bit, that spoke to me, haha. That's exactly how I use my necromancer. I can be weaker than the enemy but have fun fighting the HORDE! Oh and like others have said Graveyard Keeper is a fun Stardew Valley like game, but with necromancy. Also Hero's Hour and Age of Fear are a couple games with necromancy. And Age of fear is the free version, it's not the best looking game, but when you just want to kill things in a turn based top view game where you can raise the dead on the battlefield and build up your army, I'd say it's pretty good. Also a card game I'm sure you've heard about is MTG Arena. You can build so many types of necromancy builds in that game its crazy. You can toss your undead away for buffs or focus on buffing them and trying to keep them alive, to just rise them back when they die. You can also kill enemy creatures and rise their creature against them. The only downside is you got to get lucky to get the cards you want in the packs you unlock or buy. But you will unlock some necro builds pretty quickly.
...So I am just going to suggest this loosely. "Stubbs the Zombie" is a fairly old liner story game about a guy, who gets turned into a zombie, going after the people who made him that way. He also makes a fair amount of other zombies along the way, hence why I am putting this out as a suggestion. Really fun game and has a good amount of humor with it as well!
all i have to say, i liked necromancer in diablo 2 before i even reached teenager emo phase (wich ended up being a now permanent spook lover phase), and when i got the 3 on switch (aleardy played it before but the dlc was not here yet) and i heard the french voice of the necromancer was the same guy that do french Sebastian Castelianos, i was on my damn knees that was still bleeding from a previous injury, and thanked the astral entity that made it possible =D
If you had Baldur's Gate 3 on this list, you gotta look at Larian Studio's prior game, Divinity: Original Sin II. There's a very free-form class and skill system that has a whole necromancy skill list, and you can usually dabble in other skills to become Necro+Warfare, Necro+Scoundrel, Necro+Pyromancer, etc. In the Torchlight series, you get a little pet buddy like in old dungeon crawlers like NetHack and Rogue. You can even teach them spells. I gave my dog, "Summon Skeletons" because they're a good girl and she can have as many bones as she wants! Your main character can also learn these spells, regardless of your class. So you can be a Warrior Necro, Rogue Necro, or Mage Necro.
I havent noticed The Bloodline in your list, you should definetly try it. There are several classes like geomancer or archer etc. But most importantly there is necromancer class and its hella fun, and how I said there are several classes, you can use several spell from different classes and there are lot of slots so you dont have to stick to using 3 spells. Do you want to be warrior that summons undead army? You can. Do you want to see your death knight decimate your enemies in rain of fire? You can. Also there are lots of quest where you can try your spells, you can have pets, mounts and build your city. Definetly recommened
I have no idea where other people stand on this game, but I love the hell out of it: Dead Craft. Its a post-apocalyptic top-down game where you play as a half-zombie who can collect enemy corpses, “plant” them, and harvest a zombie minion out of it. You can even collect zombie body parts to upgrade gear and such. The undead-style guns are my personal favorite. It’s got an edgy-anime aesthetic, but I adored the game nonetheless.
Thank you for people here and for necromancy games! Lost Epoch hype is so wild i need it and Tharmaturge game sound like maby something i beat after finaly W3. I'll definitely rewatch this video few times.
aahhh, one more level in baldurs gate and you would have unlocked the sebclass feature, giving you MORE possible zombies to summon at the same time, up to 3 with the normal version, add the meme with "giving up early shortly before reaching the diamonds sad returning pickaxe dude here" :D
kingdoms of amalur technically has a necromancer you can summon a single skeleton that tries its best to help you and can be upgraded to occasionally life leech whatever it hits to heal you so it's about as much necromancy as darksiders XD to make an actual recommendation though: there's a necromancer race in Battle for Wesnoth, they even have pretty decent campaigns, and I enjoy quite a lot to try and get a variety of zombies since most species have their own zombie type with slightly different stats
Age of the Ring with Dol Guldur is a very fun necromancer experience. Some stand out mechanics: The necromancer tower has an upgrade to turn orcs or broken rabble into risen dead; an upgrade to cause nearby enemies on death to turn into wraiths that thus turn other enemies into wraiths. The Necromancer faction leader can cause direct dmg that turns anything it kills into risen dead A late tier faction spell turns enemy units into wraiths that turn other units to wraiths. . .I did not say enemy in that later half for a reason.
Ni No Kuni II has sorta like a necromancer style-gameplay, since you can have an army of Familiars known as Higgledy/Higgledies. The Slormancer also has a necromancer class, not as good though, but it's something. Chronicon also has one of the best summoner classes as EVERY classes, in some capacity has a summoner-type build.
Be My Horde genre: Survivor age: like 2 months old, could be called an early access still though it released officially nice graphics, Dont Starve -ish kind of like Right click to Necromance, but with survivor type game loop, spacebar not right click, just more fleshed out in general
There was a necromancer game about using light constructs or something to fight with and solve puzzles and other stuff, and your goal was to find four pieces of someone, but I don't remember the name of the game
Note on BG3 you get a lot more summons on later lvl,s and NPC,s now ignore your undead minoins.(was not fun in the major city that everybody runs around/away from you even vendors etc) Note on overlord the green minion also jump on big enemy's like rogues basicly.
There is a very niche strategy game called Dominions 6. There is a faction called Ermor, and at a later age, it is called Lemuria, which is Rome, but everyone died and resurrected back as necromancers. The faction is very different from any other faction in the game in that you don't buy your troops, instead everywhere you have spread your death cult people will die, and a portion of the dead civilians will turn into undead troops and commanders. You also get to summon powerful undeads by magic rituals and send curses from across the world to enemy commanders. You may also turn the sun off because your troops don't need daylight to be effective. Also, death magic is merely a magic path, and it is not specifically limited to Ermor. Anyone can use it in their own way.
Another one. Age of wonders 4. basic skellies, zombies, ghosts, banshees, golems and undead dragons are all the basic troops. You can mak your entire race and culture into wights and consume the souls of your enemies to rise new armies of the undead.
You should try wesnorth, it is free on both steam and mobile and it those have a necromancer campaign, though I haven’t play it myself. It a turn based strategy game a bit like Advance wars if you know (it’s the closest I can think of) It a pretty good game, especially for its price, definitely on of the best game on mobile, especially if you have a tablets
In Total War Wahammer 3 there's also the Tomb Kings factions which are kinda egyptian mummy themed rulers which get undead armies as well like skeletons
I'm surprised no one recommended terraria. Its not exactly a necromancer but its summons, they're strong but not ok and the character you control is still needed. My favourite class to play
You could even say Rimworld falls under this in a weird way. you got the mechinator which does necromancer playstyle with mechs. With newish dlc you get ghouls you can enhance to be strong and shamblers(zombies)
I haven’t finished the video but I’m case you haven’t checked it out. The game TROVE has a really fun Necromancer class it’s no army but one of my fav necromancer experiences
holy shite I needed this! im exactly the same way; my penultimate form of enjoyment in any game is necromancy and I will strait up buy any game with no context/review/trailer just if I hear that it has it! this list is freaking golden!!!!!!!! ty
Thank you for that absolutely wild ride of a first year on RUclips. I can not wait to see how this continues
It’s nice that you found Overlord that’s a childhood favorite of mine.
Congrats on the first year and becoming a name. Some folks it takes years of work.
Hey you might want to look into the last timestamps, the bards tale one is wrong and pops you out in Last epoch
Recognized many games.
But... are you seriously going out of your way to experience a Necromancer in fantasy setting and ignoring modded Elder Scrolls/modded Skyrim specifically? Granted, you'll need a modpack that lets you do most with Necromancy, but c'mon.
You can play a necromancer in Trove.
Just letting you know.
For a non-combat necromancer, Graveyard Keeper does have a pretty fun necromancy mechanic. Like Stardew valley with necromancy and a bit more of an edge to it. Using reanimated undead to automate chores, which allows you to get on with the rest of the game
And, you can cook, eat and sell human meat 😅😅😅
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to be fair necromancers are basically the "let the minions handle it"/"die once and have to rebuild your army all over again" class so it's very fitting that most of these are either auto battlers or rouge likes
Dominions series has the best necromancy in any stragegy game, yep just straight up.
Poison the air, accelerate aging, turn off the sun then watch as your enemies rot alive trying to stop your undead roman legions without any food, in total darkness, while their priests all busy dying from old age.
Then get into a fight with r'lyeh, watch helplessly as they minburn, soulslay, or mind control every actually sentient part of your army, as your undead legions crumble to dust without any undead leadership left.
You can summon hordes of undead, summon hordes of undead giants, turn your commanders into liches , destroy the world with global disasters, curse your living soldiers to turn into undead as they die, attempt to control your opponents undead, sacrifice virgins to create vampires and so on. And then there are undead specific divine magic, blessings, cross-path magic, magical items. Not enough? Try mods.
Yes! I must add that dominions 6 is most recent and content rich game of series, so you can just start from this one. And this game is have so much necromancy content. You have so much different kinds of undead. Zombies, skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, vampires. Many of monsters have undead forms. Like zombie or ghost giants, or skeleton bird people. You also have undead of different cultures. Like ancient german undead, Egypt-reptile undead, roman undead. And you even have different form factors! Like arcane undead, plant undead, devine ones, and that's just scratches a surface. Game have so much necromancy content, you will have to spend months to even try it out. But it's not just content. This game is one of deepest ones mechanically, that I ever seen. I recommend it to everyone.
Absolutely. The game is a bit complicated and the graphics aren't that great, but the mechanics and flavors of the game are fantastic. Every faction has access to any magic school and anyone can be a necromancer, but certain factions are specialized towards it in their own flavorful way. Want an undead roman legion? Of which kind? The ghost or the skeletal kind? What about an army of undead monkeys lead by powerful demonic rakshasas? Would you like to venture deep into the earth and bind the wandering bodies of the ancient pale ones to your service? Why use death magic to move a body when you can wrap it in vines, worms, and other things that crawl? You can also be the lizards and get banned because your faction is broken in MP.
Some candidates for the next videos:
Be my horde
Hero's Hour
Magicraft
Necronator: Dead Wrong
Praise Dead
Spellforce
Summonsters
What about age of wonders 4?
Pikmin was not what I expected to see on a necromancer list lol
Exactly as intended lol
Total War: Warhammer actually has THREE necromantic factions. The Vampire Counts (Who have a fair variety even just between their sub-factions), the Vampire Coast (Vampirates with zombie musketeer minions), and the Tomb Kings, which none of the comments you highlighted mentioned. They're "Totally not Egyptian" necromancers with mummies for lords, and their bread and butter are skeleton armies with skeleton archers backing them up. Also skeleton chariots (Which are themselves built out of bones), before you even get into their animated statuary...
He mentioned that right at the end of the segment.
O shit a neat little package of all your necro videos now i don't need to have a custom Playlist
There is an official play list with all the videos as well!
@RisingBlurTR Honestly forgot that was a thing for RUclips creators. Now that I've seen it all back to back now I can't help but notice that Age of Wonders 4 not on there. Think of it as total war but not as strict on what you can do. Hell you can make your own necromancer based faction complete with customizing your hero. Mehhh it's probably already on a list of things you have to go through anyways
@@slymilitiaman9171 This!
Not only can you just be a straight necromancer with undead armies, you can also infuse weapons of your heroes to summon undead whenever they kill stuff. It's just for that battle but still bonkers.
"Spellforce Conquest of EO" has some nice necromancy. You capture the souls of your enemies and craft an undead army. Recruit cheap expendable units for low tier undead spam. Cannabalize might be the most used spell by necromancers, skeletons.
"Eador" is recommandable you have to be evil though. Well there are some benefits in being evil.
The "Dominions" series has a great magic system and fun necromancy but you would probably need time to learn it. Some tutorial videos will help.
Dominions is the only game that gives you that feeling of having a real undead army.
The Roguelike Tales of Maj'Eyal is good, has a necromancer-class and even has the option of becoming a lich. But most classes (and races) require unlocking.
I really love games that allow you to play as necromancers. There is something deeply satisfying about using killed enemies for your own army. One of the first things I did in Age of Wonders 4 was to create a necromancer race.
I also remember a multiplayer tactics game called Pox Nora fondly that had an undead faction. If you had enough zombie units they would get a buff called "zombie apocalypse" which adds a nasty debuff to their attacks. Killed enemy units with this debuff would rise again as zombies under your control. The zombies were pretty weak but you could snowball them really hard and just throw them at your enemy as disposable cannon fodder while keeping your more valuable units safe.
this is why i wanna play a necromancer in games like ttrpgs like dnd and pathfinder, there is something about throwing tons of bodies at the problem, besides its recycling because you are re-using corpses, you are also creating jobs
ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) has a full Necromancer class with some cool looking minions and soul-based spells. They even have an Ultimate that turns yourself into a giant mass of skeletons.
Overlord is such a great game, absolute classic, my childhood favourite. I wish we had Overlord: but with a necromancer. So glad to see it get the love it deserves.
Overlord 2 has a mechanic to resurrect specific minions meaning it qualifies as a necromancer game even harder!
Looking forward to the next video!
bro you unlocked a core memory with Darksiders 2, thank you.
i remember playing it when it released but i spent so f***ing long not remembering what it was called.
I totally feel that in my heart. Glad I was able to help :)
Recently finished the content of V Rising with my Buddy in co-op, and mainly employed a build I've called the 'Texas Necromancer', which consisted of Dual Guns that blighted enemies (so they rise as my skeletal minion after death), an single target spell that damaged enemies and spawned a skeleton on hit (which was doubled by a Gem), an AoE which blighted enemies, healed my minions and reset their timer and an Ultimate which spawned even more Skellies.
Really powerful against groups, a bit weaker against quicker Bosses because you can't really keep a meaningful Number of Minions up, but a fun game if you like Survival Base Building.
First, I want to say congrats on making it this far my fellow necromancer, and second if you haven't seen it yet, I would highly suggest V Rising, where you're a vampire trying to become overlord, with lots of spells, and prisoners, for minions including skelly boys pretty early on
I'm reinstalling Last Epoch right now, holy shit. I had no idea about the end game!
Yeah!
I‘m still currently playing through the game as the other two acolyte specifications and I know that the early game can be kinda boring after a bit. But the endgame is really really fun.
I been edging for this video for a long time now, now its out I can finally feel relief.
I actually came up with a necromancer class for my game concept(that i have yet to make) called Dragoneers. The games essentially a VR fantasy looter shooter mmo, with classes. I though it would be cool to add a necromancer class, I mean who doesnt wanna be a lord of the dead, in VR! The idea was that youd get a spell tome in your left hand and Skull Censor in your right hand. Using the buttons on your left youd look through the spells in your book and get them prepped for casting. Then you cast them with the censor, however each spell costs souls which you can claim by killing enemies with a tracking flaming skull attack. Get enough souls and you can summon a minion, with a limit of 6 small minions, however you can then combine those minions into upgraded versions. In total you can have 1 behemoth, 3 bone mages, 3 bone archers, and 6 regular minions at one time. A bone mage would cost 2 minions to make, same with the archer, and the behemoth would cost all 6 minions. Plus you can augment and change the spells with upgrades. :3 again its all just conceptual and i have little work done on it.
The idea sounds great! Thank you for sharing!!!
middle earth Shadow of war: There is a full set of necromancer gear that you can earn that gives a percentage chance of those you kill to come back to life and fight for you. Each gear set either buffs your dead or raises the chance of you bringing them back. so with the amount of times you can kill something you tend to notice them running around you or at least I did :)
I hear Arcanum has a pretty fun Necromancer experience.
I'm still sad Graveyard Keeper didn't make it into season 1.
I swear it's gonna be in season 2.
I know how much it is demanded.
Right Click to Necromance is so nostalgic
I have been modding Elden ring and made a few spirit ash replacements that include lovely skeletal bois. I replaced the militia men with 7 skeletal curved sword minions and 3 bowmen. I also replaced the skeletal assassin with 5 Large sword and shield skeletons and 5 crossbow skeletons. Currently have them balanced for pvp summons with my buddy but I can certainly release a version for the public if anyone would like.
I would genuinely love to try this one👀
Wow the "total war: warhammer 3" part was so funny.
I played the ogre kingdom once, but i did not know you coud play as necromancers, too.
I must play it again!
If ya have yet to do so just know. You have 2 flavors of necro. We have pure bog standard vamps and necros. Then we got pirates! Yes fucking ZOMBIE PIRATES WHOS LORD NECRO! Or just part time necro as one of the pirate lords os just a crazy norska who HAD A FISH TAIL AND LIMBS! But decided to cut them off and take to the sea... She from memory don't know how to swim XD btw aside from 3 vamp flavors with a loving couple who are always togeather counting as 2 (options bit really only one of em is active lord the other becomes a hero unit) ya then got the 2 necros of the normal flavor. To finish the porates we have the fat lady not wanting to sing her last thus making it EVERY GOD DAM DARK ELVES PROBLEM. And a once normal vamplord necro dude who got mega scitzo and multiple personality problem. Thinks to fat fucking toads.
Ah, what an oddity, no one said tales of Maj'eyal!
In TOME You have an actuall necromancer class, including a LOT of summoning and minion-related skills, eventually you can literally have an army of undead and become a immortal lich yourself!
I am actually currently trying to unlock it. It‘s just… time consuming lmao
It’s kinda funny he posted a video during a stream
The moment I get a legendary helmet for necromancer in Last Epoch.. BIG A** GRIM REAPER summonning wraiths and shooting necrotic lasers.. A power up from abomination build I had that when summonning it I was holding the skill button for half a minute because my passives and gear kept on reviving and summoning new sacrifices for it.. I can't remember when playing any necromancer felt that awesome
Also the ability to for example build whole army as fire, cold or poison/necrotic one.. Too little time and I want to check all builds.. Meybe I will try to play offline and copy a reseted max lvl character to try different combinations. Shame that relic for archer class that turns poison flask into a frost one won't work on skeletal rogues ;/
This is so fucking true.
gotta love the "life is good" whistle of York in the background, isn't that right Zack ?
Just thought I'd mention an older and kinda obscure game made by Shiny Entertainment and released in 2000 called Sacrifice. Not entirely necromantic, but the basic mechanics do have a parallel to it.
You play as a mage (I know, shocking) and get to pick between 5 gods (multiple times, you aren't locked into one): Persephone the goddess of life, Pyro the god of fire/invention/industry, Stratos the god of air/knowledge (voiced by Tim Curry in english doing his absolute best condescending smarmy voice), James (yes seriously) the god of Earth and Charnel the god of Death. The basic mechanics (and sadly a lot of the basic creature mechanics) however don't really change between each, you have mana to cast spells and souls that are needed to summon monsters. Getting more souls involves either killing creatures (or innocent villagers) on the current campaign map and hoovering up their souls, or killing off parts of your opponents forces and casting a spell to convert their fallen creature's souls for you to use. While this is going on they do the same to you. So no matter who you choose to work for there's a pseudo necromantic tone to it. Though Charnel does at one point grant an actual raise dead spell and a non-controllable summon that's...a fairly recognisable figure.
The game's a bit tongue in cheek, though quite willing to take itself seriously and a little jank to actually play. It's primarily a pseudo 3rd person action game pasted on top of a combat focused RTS where the only resources are the mana and souls previously mentioned (though there are nodes on the map to capture for more mana regen). A bit of a warning though, much like many of the genre-mashup games from back then it's kinda bastard hard, with the final level of any campaign potentially being an absolute slog. Still a fun romp though.
Oh and sorry for the wall of text (if you read it) I didn't intend for it to be this long. Honest.
This video is approved by the Necromancer High Order
One of the best necromancer experiences I've had is from Heroes of Might and Magic 3. There's an HD version on steam, but it doesn't have the Shadow of Death expansion, which has a campaign specifically dedicated to a necromancer.
If you liked HoMM 3 you should totally try HoMM 5 as well
Last good game in series ngl
You got yourseft a subscribe with the Overlord tier.
Such an amazing game.
- a fellow German
The game seems to be held very dear by our kind lol
I love Last Epoch and the squirrel build that primalist gets, because nothing speaks "respect" as much as a gang of murderous squirrels applying bleed to everyone
Yes the squirrel build is hilarious i loved it in cycle 1 now im trying necromancer but so far i think i prefer beastmaster
Dominion series are 4x with all tropes of fantasies imaginable and there is several factions revolving more or less about necromancy. Somes are about skelettons, others about spirits, an other is literally plants infecting things and making a vegetal zombie army.
Just discovered your channel because the Wonderous Algorithm, blessed be, had this video pop up. I also love playing Necromancers if they're available. So many games get them wrong, or at least "wrong" from my opinion/perspective. Really enjoying watching this.
I'm sure you've heard this a ton already, but definitely give GW2's Necro more a chance at 80, especially after you've had a lot more time to spend getting points to max some of the builds to get the abilities. The Minion-mancer is so much fun.
1:17:00 you actually can raise 5 more undead companions during the game. 1st one can be resurrected at the start of act 3, if you choose to keep body of the act 2 boss.
Oooooh that‘s really cool!
I suggest Age Of wonders 3, or age of wonders 4. In Age of wonders 3, there is literally the Necro class, and in age of wonders 4 there are several tomes of power that give necro abilities to your leader, heroes and army
Also, since you mentioned Bloons TD, I want to inform you that there is also a Necromancer tower in kingdom rush frontiers and also in Kingdom rush Alliance. Those towers raise actual skeletons
A fun one that has undead within it is Stubbs the zombie. You are a zombie and when you kill someone they turn into a zombie. You can't control them but its still a fun old game
I always was interested in that one… huh to know that I now have an excuse to buy it!
@@RisingBlurTR I hope you enjoy the game. Its a classic from my youth and the music is actually really good. Lots of remakes of classic songs like sandman and earth angel
Path of exile mentioned yippy... yeah poe summoners builds are uh, nutty. My favorite was my poets pen srs meat cannon build 😂, the build worked by more or less dropping summons directly into packs and then blowing up my own summons for rediculous amounts of fire damage, the best part was that it was back when your own summons corpses worked for corpse explosion, so i could get 2 detonations from each summon, dont remember exactly what they changed that finally killed that build but i took it all the way to level 100 and it was the only character i ever took all the way to 100 (for anyone who hasnt played, getting max character level is a milestone most players never accomplish bc it requires doing endgame content consistently fast without dying bc dying costs you xp to your next level so if you just die every map youll literally never level up)
I recommend trying HoMM5 for the Necropolis faction. They have a great arc in the campaign, but you can play single scenarios as well.
Really nice compilation
I feel like the next series would be something like
"Best warlock games"
Or
"Best games that you play as villian"
There are three games you might might not be aware of having a Necromancer like class/skills. One of them is Sacred 2 Fallen Angel where you can play as the Shadow Warrior who is an undead warrior who can summon upgradable skeletons, a skull turret, and just raise nearby slain enemies for a short time. And while not nearly as cool there is also the Dryad from Sacred 2 Fallen Angel who via the skill Moribund Animus can use the shrunken head of an enemy to summon their ghost to fight alongside her. The second game is Divinity 2 Dragon Knight Saga where in the Priest skill tree you can summon a zombie to fight with you, a ghost to heal you, or a demon to fight with you and then when you get your battle tower a.k.a your home base you can go to your Necromancy platform and customize your own undead creation using slain enemies body parts which change the creatures' stats, skills, and class in order to complement your own. And the final game is Conan Exiles where if you unlock sorcery and upgrade it enough you get all sorts of necromantic abilities and crafting items such as, soul orbs to make floating soul lights to act as your torch, burying slain thralls in graves to raise as temporary zombies which with the right perk allows two of them to follow you at once or one that gets decently buffed, and a spell that coats a decently sized area in fog and summons numerous zombies to fight any and all enemies in the area for a time. I'd also like to add Tainted Grail Conquest which has a Necromancer class that is incredibly fun and powerful if you play it right.
Lol using the deadly premonition music for jank game is *chefkiss*
you are making me unironically so fucking happy by saying this omg😭
the music just fits way too well
@@RisingBlurTR yeah it was just an excellent choice :)
Yo I'm actually the guy who made the official fear & hunger discord, I kinda know orange (The dev) he's pretty cool, anyway Let me know if you do the stream I might pop in~
one game with one of the best feelings of being a necromancer is definitely Warlords Battlecry 2 or 3, literally summon your army, upgrade them into ghouls/death knights or liches or just turn them into ghosts/specters and rush your enemies, still one of the best games, pretty cheap too on GOG
KeeperRL is also great. You're can play as a dungeon master, creating your army of goblins, harpies, and, of course, zombies/vampires. You even have the possibility to be a lich and only create undead monsters from corpses. Great game !
The original guild wars was much more necromancer then the second. It's kind of funny it is harder at first because you need to actualy kill things before you can summon undead then it get's easier as time goes on as you get more undead.
Well, in Baldurs Gate 3 on the higher levels, you can cast the animate dead spell on higher levels with a higher spell slot, and get more undead out of it, and start to overwhelm the enemy with numbers!
Guild Wars 1 actually has a minion master necromancer which is all about summoning and buffing the minions. It's decently challenging to unlock all of the bonus spells because some of them are deeper into the game or in hard missions.
Not sure if this comment will be seen or if someone else already mentioned it but not only is there necromancy wizard for baldur's gate 3 but there is also circle of the spores druid, basically in addition to the animate dead spell you also gain extra abilities for left 4 dead type fungal zombies that may be weaker but can turn non-humanoid creatures to your side, and they lack a limit of how many you can have out trading it for a limited amount casted, multiclassing 6 necro wizard and 6 spore druid would get the best of both worlds in terms of necromancy
Don’t worry I read every comment!
Even if I may not answer. And yeah, the spore Druid was mentioned A BUNCH already lol. I definitely have to try them at some point as well!
Heroes of Might and Magic series is also incredible. There was one necromancer in HoMaM V that was so incredibly broken, the more you attack him the bigger army he has lol
About Baldur's Gate 3 at the higher levels you can have an army not even counting the WWZ Zombie with infection.
Animate Dead i think can do 4 undead(Flying Ghouls can fly and paralyse, OP), then you also get Create Undead, mostly used for the Mummy. There is also a spell if you get a certain forbidden book and do its stuff on Act 3. Gives you an extra 5 Ghouls straight up. Now this is already 10 summons to do extra work for you. It gets crazier tho.
Then you have all sorts of other summons, minor elemental(always summons 3) and just normal elemental and a higher version, Myrmidon. Then there is a Quasit, which isnt strong alone but can surprise enemies, which pretty much guarentees victory for most battles. Of high level summons theres Deva, its not that easy to get, but can be scribed into a wizard's spellbook. That makes 16, you can probably get a few more. Gotta know the game. :D
I SO DESPERATELY need to play more bg3 FUCK
Death knights from world of warcraft are very necromancer like. There unholy speck can have two undead followers at all time. Then they have a move to pop blisters off of enemies and more undead fall out. then they can summon an army of the dead witch summons even more undead for a short period of time. It's great fun.
I didn't realize how long the new vid was. Unholy moly!
I would be disappointed if a compilation of all the necromancy videos I did over the last year wouldn’t be long!
I would recommend Spellforce Platinum edition. You can summon skeletons, zombie Goblins and other undead creatures. The Skeletons even change their appearance every few levels.
Damn looking at that older build for Soulstone Survivors brings back memories. And now today they released a patch where his abominations buff other summons and the necro himself
I feel every little word of your intro. one of us, one of us! ^-^
You're talking to my soul! I love necromancer's and the necromancy skills and spells! It's just so awesome!
Edit: Also love that small intro bit, that spoke to me, haha. That's exactly how I use my necromancer. I can be weaker than the enemy but have fun fighting the HORDE! Oh and like others have said Graveyard Keeper is a fun Stardew Valley like game, but with necromancy. Also Hero's Hour and Age of Fear are a couple games with necromancy. And Age of fear is the free version, it's not the best looking game, but when you just want to kill things in a turn based top view game where you can raise the dead on the battlefield and build up your army, I'd say it's pretty good.
Also a card game I'm sure you've heard about is MTG Arena. You can build so many types of necromancy builds in that game its crazy. You can toss your undead away for buffs or focus on buffing them and trying to keep them alive, to just rise them back when they die. You can also kill enemy creatures and rise their creature against them. The only downside is you got to get lucky to get the cards you want in the packs you unlock or buy. But you will unlock some necro builds pretty quickly.
...So I am just going to suggest this loosely. "Stubbs the Zombie" is a fairly old liner story game about a guy, who gets turned into a zombie, going after the people who made him that way. He also makes a fair amount of other zombies along the way, hence why I am putting this out as a suggestion. Really fun game and has a good amount of humor with it as well!
You should take a look at "Be my horde" im loving it and its still in development.
all i have to say, i liked necromancer in diablo 2 before i even reached teenager emo phase (wich ended up being a now permanent spook lover phase), and when i got the 3 on switch (aleardy played it before but the dlc was not here yet) and i heard the french voice of the necromancer was the same guy that do french Sebastian Castelianos, i was on my damn knees that was still bleeding from a previous injury, and thanked the astral entity that made it possible =D
If you had Baldur's Gate 3 on this list, you gotta look at Larian Studio's prior game, Divinity: Original Sin II. There's a very free-form class and skill system that has a whole necromancy skill list, and you can usually dabble in other skills to become Necro+Warfare, Necro+Scoundrel, Necro+Pyromancer, etc.
In the Torchlight series, you get a little pet buddy like in old dungeon crawlers like NetHack and Rogue. You can even teach them spells. I gave my dog, "Summon Skeletons" because they're a good girl and she can have as many bones as she wants! Your main character can also learn these spells, regardless of your class. So you can be a Warrior Necro, Rogue Necro, or Mage Necro.
I have finally found a man of culture, sir.
Titan fall makes me feel like a fps necromancer when I steal those funny robots
Wait what???
West of Loathing has a necromancer subclass and questline
I had to mod Baldurs gate to get my necromancer craving but god I need this list
Everquest and Rift had necros too! One of the best solo classes actually. I had a necro main for awhile when I played.
This one video got me to subscribe. As someone with a HUGE interest in necromancy. This video is VERY enlihtening
Thank you so much!
I am trying my best to find games everyone can be interested in in our little niche :D
I havent noticed The Bloodline in your list, you should definetly try it. There are several classes like geomancer or archer etc. But most importantly there is necromancer class and its hella fun, and how I said there are several classes, you can use several spell from different classes and there are lot of slots so you dont have to stick to using 3 spells. Do you want to be warrior that summons undead army? You can. Do you want to see your death knight decimate your enemies in rain of fire? You can. Also there are lots of quest where you can try your spells, you can have pets, mounts and build your city. Definetly recommened
I have no idea where other people stand on this game, but I love the hell out of it: Dead Craft.
Its a post-apocalyptic top-down game where you play as a half-zombie who can collect enemy corpses, “plant” them, and harvest a zombie minion out of it. You can even collect zombie body parts to upgrade gear and such. The undead-style guns are my personal favorite. It’s got an edgy-anime aesthetic, but I adored the game nonetheless.
Thank you for people here and for necromancy games! Lost Epoch hype is so wild i need it and Tharmaturge game sound like maby something i beat after finaly W3. I'll definitely rewatch this video few times.
aahhh, one more level in baldurs gate and you would have unlocked the sebclass feature, giving you MORE possible zombies to summon at the same time, up to 3 with the normal version, add the meme with "giving up early shortly before reaching the diamonds sad returning pickaxe dude here" :D
I actually just got back into the game. Can’t wait to get to higher levels with my beautiful class!
oohh nice, please do enjoy it fully :3
kingdoms of amalur technically has a necromancer
you can summon a single skeleton that tries its best to help you and can be upgraded to occasionally life leech whatever it hits to heal you
so it's about as much necromancy as darksiders XD
to make an actual recommendation though: there's a necromancer race in Battle for Wesnoth, they even have pretty decent campaigns, and I enjoy quite a lot to try and get a variety of zombies since most species have their own zombie type with slightly different stats
Well produced, great aesthetic, palpable hard work. That's a sub from me!
Im the same as you i love summoning an army. Even if its not super stong its cool to watch haha
If you like the minion gameplay model of "Overlord", you can check "Freedom Fighters"
However it takes place in modern times - not fantasy.
Age of the Ring with Dol Guldur is a very fun necromancer experience.
Some stand out mechanics: The necromancer tower has an upgrade to turn orcs or broken rabble into risen dead; an upgrade to cause nearby enemies on death to turn into wraiths that thus turn other enemies into wraiths.
The Necromancer faction leader can cause direct dmg that turns anything it kills into risen dead
A late tier faction spell turns enemy units into wraiths that turn other units to wraiths. . .I did not say enemy in that later half for a reason.
Ni No Kuni II has sorta like a necromancer style-gameplay, since you can have an army of Familiars known as Higgledy/Higgledies. The Slormancer also has a necromancer class, not as good though, but it's something. Chronicon also has one of the best summoner classes as EVERY classes, in some capacity has a summoner-type build.
Brilliant, danke schoen :)
Necro-chan is great. Have you considered making a comic or anything based on her? Not enough necromancer focused media.
I actually have! Just... didnt find the time yet lol.
Be My Horde
genre: Survivor
age: like 2 months old, could be called an early access still though it released officially
nice graphics, Dont Starve -ish
kind of like Right click to Necromance, but with survivor type game loop, spacebar not right click, just more fleshed out in general
There was a necromancer game about using light constructs or something to fight with and solve puzzles and other stuff, and your goal was to find four pieces of someone, but I don't remember the name of the game
In Stellaris you can choose "Reanimators" civic for your space empire and resurrect killed leviathans.
I love the emo wizard. summoning zombies is a quick way to get swarmed by the capital's holy church.
Note on BG3 you get a lot more summons on later lvl,s and NPC,s now ignore your undead minoins.(was not fun in the major city that everybody runs around/away from you even vendors etc) Note on overlord the green minion also jump on big enemy's like rogues basicly.
There is a very niche strategy game called Dominions 6. There is a faction called Ermor, and at a later age, it is called Lemuria, which is Rome, but everyone died and resurrected back as necromancers. The faction is very different from any other faction in the game in that you don't buy your troops, instead everywhere you have spread your death cult people will die, and a portion of the dead civilians will turn into undead troops and commanders. You also get to summon powerful undeads by magic rituals and send curses from across the world to enemy commanders. You may also turn the sun off because your troops don't need daylight to be effective.
Also, death magic is merely a magic path, and it is not specifically limited to Ermor. Anyone can use it in their own way.
Another one. Age of wonders 4. basic skellies, zombies, ghosts, banshees, golems and undead dragons are all the basic troops.
You can mak your entire race and culture into wights and consume the souls of your enemies to rise new armies of the undead.
You should try wesnorth, it is free on both steam and mobile and it those have a necromancer campaign, though I haven’t play it myself.
It a turn based strategy game a bit like Advance wars if you know (it’s the closest I can think of)
It a pretty good game, especially for its price, definitely on of the best game on mobile, especially if you have a tablets
Bloons vet here, did NOT expect to come across BTD6 here lol, lmao even.
Same honestly.
It was a hilarious wild card that I just love to throw in from time to time.
In Total War Wahammer 3 there's also the Tomb Kings factions which are kinda egyptian mummy themed rulers which get undead armies as well like skeletons
I'm surprised no one recommended terraria. Its not exactly a necromancer but its summons, they're strong but not ok and the character you control is still needed. My favourite class to play
Oh hell yeah, I've been waiting for a video like this
A really cool game with necromancy is Solo Leveling: Arise. It takes a while to unlock your summons but once you do they are really cool.
You could even say Rimworld falls under this in a weird way. you got the mechinator which does necromancer playstyle with mechs. With newish dlc you get ghouls you can enhance to be strong and shamblers(zombies)
how did you keep my atention for nerly 2 hours of content i have alredy seen?!?!?
I‘m just built different lmao
I haven’t finished the video but I’m case you haven’t checked it out. The game TROVE has a really fun Necromancer class it’s no army but one of my fav necromancer experiences
Baldurs gate 3 try the spore druid you get your 4 spore zombies, an animated dead, and later a ghoul from creat undead
holy shite I needed this! im exactly the same way; my penultimate form of enjoyment in any game is necromancy and I will strait up buy any game with no context/review/trailer just if I hear that it has it! this list is freaking golden!!!!!!!! ty