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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
from what ive seen, Poe2 might be a very fun experience for necro lovers. there seems to be an ability, where you can control/summon any elite mob you will eventually fight on your way through the content. there was a showcase of that and this elite mob even used the same unique skills of said monster, like creating a huge bone circle. i dont know that much about it, hence why my explanation might not be 100% accurate, but i would definitly keep an eye out for this^^
I’m noticing no one has mentioned City of Heroes Homecoming yet. It’s a superhero MMO with the option of playing as a minion summoning class called the mastermind. They come with a lot of different minions such as ninjas, thugs, mercenaries, demons, robots and most importantly necromancy. By the time you’re max level you can have 3 puking zombies (normal people turned zombie) 2 grave knights (warriors turned zombie) and a Lich (undead wizard you’ve bound to your will) and if you’ve chosen the secondary power of Dark Miasma (which you should since it’s on theme) you’ll get another minion called a Dark Servant that’s basically a shade from the underworld. You can also rip out the souls of your zombies to have their bodies and souls fight as two separate entities for a short time, doubling your minions. Check it out
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.
@@Physithor I got Tales of Maj'Eyal just for the necromancy. I almost never use unlockers. However, since I got the game for the sole purpose of enjoying that class, I figured it was for the best. Who knew a skeleton of all things could raise more skeletons! It's comical gold and irony. I love 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 :)
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.
"Easy S tier, just for the zombies alone." (regarding Baldur's Gate necromancy) Age of Wonders 4 has a similar combat summon mechanic. In tactical combat, you have various spells or abilities that summon undead from corpses, and you have a chance to raise fallen enemies to zombies on death. These guys last for the combat and then disappear. After battles, depending on the target's unit tier, you can use the fallen to raise various undead for your actual, roaming army. These range from basic Skelly Bois depending on the target's race and unit type (mage, defender, warrior, archer, pikeman), Bone Horrors that are big, corpse eating chargers that also summon skeletons when they get low HP, and Skeletal Dragons. I want to edit the 'depending on target's race' thing for clarity. There's a mechanic where players and AI can make changes to races in their control, like giving them angel and demon properties. Skeletons keep these transformations, so ones you raise from e.g. angels will be 'angel skeletons'.
"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.
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.
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.
V-Rising has somewhat necromancer-esk spells. Mostly temporarily, but almost all necro spells summon undeads in some way. And all enemies killed by undeads spawn more undeads.
This is actually a perfect video for me, I absolutely LOVE necromancer and minion kinds of games (overlord series was fun in my childhood even if I never beat either of them lol) but seriously I love Necromancy stuff I am even currently writing a necromancer story. I really wish there was more necromancer games cause some dont hit the same way for me
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
A lot of old strategy games have an undead faction. Disciples 1&2 (the second has the best sprites graphics ever), heroes of might & magic (homm 5 necromancy was pretty much broken before the dlc so you could have gathered tens of thousands of skeleton archers by just waiting), heroes of annihilated empires is also pretty cool (at the beginning of each match you can decide to either play a normal base-based rts or a single hero rpg), warlords battlecry series also has some fun necromancy builds.
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.
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!
@RisingBlurTR If I might give you a suggestion, there is a free addon that allows you to unlock all the classes but still leaves the achievements and most progression locked (mostly your homebase stuff, orb of recycling, etc...) on the devopers website - I'd suggest using it, both because unlocking everything manually and slowly is... painfull >:| - and also because you still get a *ton* of possible builds and things to unlock (including ascension classes, titles, etc).
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.
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
I’m honestly surprised the Necropolis from Heroes of Might and Magic 5 wasn’t one of these. One of my personal favorite forms of necromancy in a video game. Compared to the other factions, you have nearly 2-3 times as many units as them, and can automatically revive some of the units you lost. And even in the middle of battle, you gain the ability to use the Raise Dead spell. Every faction gets it, but the necropolis units specifically revive *every* unit when cast on them, and unlike every other faction, you keep the revived units when the combat ends. Add in the fact after you win a battle, you get to animate some of the enemies fallen units as your own Necropolis specific units, meaning that unless an enemy kills you completely, you could come back in a few turns with an army to finish what you started.
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.
I beat everything in The Unlivig had to offer a year ago, and I gotta say it's been a fun ride. Later on you unlock an NPC that lets you choose a loudout with bonus stats, where you can pick between minion buffs, sacrifice damage, hexweapon buffs ect. PS I can help but notice that you seem to just pull your minions holding rightclick, once you have them in position just rightclick what you want them to attack and they get slightly more aggressive. Thank you for the list I might even try a few games :D
Yeah I’ve gotten a lot better since when I made the original video lol. The recordings in here, of where I played the Unliving was over a year ago, where it wasn’t even fully released yet.
Turning off the crusade system locks you out of the best ending. It also means you miss out on fast travel on the over world. there are buildings that let you teleport to forts and bases, but you have to build them yourself. I recommend using the Toybox mod, and using the 'murder hobo' option to instant win crusade fights
Corpse keeper is a fighting game where you resurrect and manage corpses that fight for you, its a roguelike with a fairly unique gameplay loop however theres no real necromancy in the game besides your character resurrecting bodies to fight for him (which you end up controlling anyway), that being said its probably one of my favourite roguelikes atm for its unique style
In Solo Leveling: Arise, the main character unlocks shadow necromancy powers as part of key story events. Though you'll need to progress a bit to unlock them, it's well worth the wait. You even get to summon some of the previous bosses.
I don't often subscribe these days. Dunno why it costs nothing. But I did for you bro. Also I am gearing up to work on a game and I will have to add necromancy to it for sure. Already coming up with ideas to make it work and I am loving all of them.
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
It was so much fun playing a necromancer in Two Worlds Two. I researched online how to get the correct spell cards. Then basically played a speed run until i had the right spells. Then i started playing the game for real.
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.
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
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.
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.
As I've seen liches are always shown as IMMORTAL NECOMACERS, so if you have to choose 1 of 3 paths in which Necomancer and Lich are separate, then what is the difference? Exception the almost completely immortal form
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
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.
long vid few ideas: half minute hero (evil lord campaign) risk of rain/ror2 (Happiest Mask/jar of souls) elden ring (spirit ash) warframe (revenant) command and conquer 3: kane's wrath (marked of kane) valheim (blood magic)
Two games you might've heard of. Incremancer is an idle game where you'll eventually just watch your swarm kill humans, and they'll revive. It's free, too. Its not a great game, but lichdom battlemage. It's got a kinda cool magic creation system, but, it's pretty one note beyond that. The idea is, use type A spells to 'charge' dmg on a foe, type B spells to do big dmg and consume the charge, and type c spells, for crowd control. No 'class', but you'll likely use between 3 of 8 elements, each of which have some pros and cons for the element, the 'type' of effect the spells do, and how the spells work - basic projectile, aoe projectile, close range novas, shields, a few more - each 'style' also having three options, and function can change some per element, like a fire aoe projectile 'pool' makes, well, a ring of fire that's beat at stacking charge, despite fire normally being best at spending charge - ice, meanwhile, best at CC, and the pool can iirc lock foes in ice or prevent them from getting close. Necromancy's not just an element - it's quite possibly the BEST charge type. Adding X charge per spell cast is fune, but takes time and leaves you vulnerable, because it's a fps style game. Necromancy summons minions, natch. CC minions are warriors that draw aggro, but the charge skeletons, can still draw aggro, but are multiple archers that build slightly less charge per shot... But they don't fire 'a' arrow each. They can last minutes. So, you can launch bone archers from saftey, let them build a LOT of charge with a single spell, then pop out with the destruction spell that is boosted by the charge... Insects with CC + necro charge means you can easily stop foes and charge them for the big drop, from saftey since these 'elements' are minion based rather than a fireball or ice spike that needs to be aimed and physically hitting a foe. Kill an infected insect cc'd enemy, they release more cc bugs. Pop out to explode the bodies, make sure your bone archers are still alive, it's pretty simple.
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.
Honestly if I had notifications on I would have sent it to you. My computer broke lol. However, if you really like necromancy I suggest looking up videos on how to modify spirit ashes and npcs on elden ring using an external elden ring app. It was straight forward for me and I have added concentration issues, it's worth it. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get it for you but if your willing to put in the effort you'll love it.
Grim Dawn's first DLC adds a Necromancer class, and even before that it has summoning builds. It's good shite, it's just so terribly marketed that after eight years, nobody really knows it exists and is still getting updates.
@@RisingBlurTR Agreed. The forthcoming DLC is supposed to be its last, so... Maybe the game being 'complete' will garner some attention? They... Well TBH the Devs just haven't actually attempted any marketing in years, so it's not really surprising nobody seems to know it's there.
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.
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
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.
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.
When I imagine a necromancer I imagine a wizard wearing one of the mages tunics from skyrim, like a potato sack with a shoelace tied around the middle to hold it all together lmao
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.
One older (Flash game) Necromancer game could try is Red Rogue. "A computer game, a side-scrolling roguelike-like by Aaron Steed with sound design by Nathan Gallardo" - From Net page. Dungeon crawl with Skeleton Minion.
Ever try Everquest? My favorite necromancer, for sure. Fear kiting? Making hp into mana? Crazy DOT spells? Charming an undead monster that'd require a whole party to kill to be your pet? Giving it a bunch of crazy gear??? The playstyles don't even stop there honestly like I read about a melee focused necromancer who tanked for his groups with life leech dots and life leech weapons.
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.
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 !
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
- Age of Wonders 4 It's kind of a Fantasy/DnD twist on Civilizations. One of the way you can build your faction is by going the Necromancy route. Just straight up raising armies of skeletons is fun. Also the game is very flexible when it comes to actually playing out your faction. Ice themed necro's, fire themed necro's, eldritch themed necro's, whatever floats yer boat. - Endless Legends Also a Fantasy spin on the 4x genre, there is a Faction called the Necrophages. Granted, it's less necromancy and more Hivemind insects, but you still get the fun part of eating and multiplying your own armies from the deaths of others.
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 ;/
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~
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
i love summoner classes in general watching one enemy get jumped but like 20 units just trigger something good inside me
It‘s da pikmin brain!
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 😅😅😅
@@МайКузнецовdont forget selling blood to our friend up north
@@МайКузнецов why not
Shame the game is so extremely grindy and all automatisation comes so late into the game
Thats what i was gonna suggest lol
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.
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
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!
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
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?
Just started playing Be My Horde just yesterday. It's a fun one worth playing.
Pikmin was not what I expected to see on a necromancer list lol
Exactly as intended lol
Yea because it's not necromancy, it's plantmancy
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.
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.
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!!!
Sounds like a lit rpg book on royal road, u should make it!
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!
The power of just pointing to one dud and say "jump him" with an army of bones will never not be satisfying XD
In Stellaris you can choose "Reanimators" civic for your space empire and resurrect killed leviathans.
from what ive seen, Poe2 might be a very fun experience for necro lovers.
there seems to be an ability, where you can control/summon any elite mob you will eventually fight on your way through the content.
there was a showcase of that and this elite mob even used the same unique skills of said monster, like creating a huge bone circle.
i dont know that much about it, hence why my explanation might not be 100% accurate, but i would definitly keep an eye out for this^^
Believe me. Is is very high up on my priority list lmao.
I’m noticing no one has mentioned City of Heroes Homecoming yet. It’s a superhero MMO with the option of playing as a minion summoning class called the mastermind. They come with a lot of different minions such as ninjas, thugs, mercenaries, demons, robots and most importantly necromancy. By the time you’re max level you can have 3 puking zombies (normal people turned zombie) 2 grave knights (warriors turned zombie) and a Lich (undead wizard you’ve bound to your will) and if you’ve chosen the secondary power of Dark Miasma (which you should since it’s on theme) you’ll get another minion called a Dark Servant that’s basically a shade from the underworld. You can also rip out the souls of your zombies to have their bodies and souls fight as two separate entities for a short time, doubling your minions. Check it out
@@MrSuperKnuckles came here to say this. The revamped Necromancy power set is great!
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.
@@Physithor I got Tales of Maj'Eyal just for the necromancy.
I almost never use unlockers. However, since I got the game for the sole purpose of enjoying that class, I figured it was for the best.
Who knew a skeleton of all things could raise more skeletons!
It's comical gold and irony. I love it.
Goated game fr
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 been edging for this video for a long time now, now its out I can finally feel relief.
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.
"Easy S tier, just for the zombies alone." (regarding Baldur's Gate necromancy)
Age of Wonders 4 has a similar combat summon mechanic. In tactical combat, you have various spells or abilities that summon undead from corpses, and you have a chance to raise fallen enemies to zombies on death. These guys last for the combat and then disappear. After battles, depending on the target's unit tier, you can use the fallen to raise various undead for your actual, roaming army. These range from basic Skelly Bois depending on the target's race and unit type (mage, defender, warrior, archer, pikeman), Bone Horrors that are big, corpse eating chargers that also summon skeletons when they get low HP, and Skeletal Dragons.
I want to edit the 'depending on target's race' thing for clarity. There's a mechanic where players and AI can make changes to races in their control, like giving them angel and demon properties. Skeletons keep these transformations, so ones you raise from e.g. angels will be 'angel skeletons'.
"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.
I feel every little word of your intro. one of us, one of us! ^-^
Well produced, great aesthetic, palpable hard work. That's a sub from me!
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.
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.
V-Rising has somewhat necromancer-esk spells. Mostly temporarily, but almost all necro spells summon undeads in some way. And all enemies killed by undeads spawn more undeads.
i have played Lich first in Last Epoch and it was also just as awesome as necromancer, it's incredibly fun
This is actually a perfect video for me, I absolutely LOVE necromancer and minion kinds of games (overlord series was fun in my childhood even if I never beat either of them lol) but seriously I love Necromancy stuff I am even currently writing a necromancer story. I really wish there was more necromancer games cause some dont hit the same way for me
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
thank you so much your doing great work keep it up!!!
Thank you so much for liking and watching my work!
A lot of old strategy games have an undead faction. Disciples 1&2 (the second has the best sprites graphics ever), heroes of might & magic (homm 5 necromancy was pretty much broken before the dlc so you could have gathered tens of thousands of skeleton archers by just waiting), heroes of annihilated empires is also pretty cool (at the beginning of each match you can decide to either play a normal base-based rts or a single hero rpg), warlords battlecry series also has some fun necromancy builds.
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.
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
@RisingBlurTR If I might give you a suggestion, there is a free addon that allows you to unlock all the classes but still leaves the achievements and most progression locked (mostly your homebase stuff, orb of recycling, etc...) on the devopers website - I'd suggest using it, both because unlocking everything manually and slowly is... painfull >:| - and also because you still get a *ton* of possible builds and things to unlock (including ascension classes, titles, etc).
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
Get the Necromancy of thay in BG3. Then summon a mummy, 4 ghouls and a zombie
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
Really nice compilation
I feel like the next series would be something like
"Best warlock games"
Or
"Best games that you play as villian"
Oh hell yeah, I've been waiting for a video like this
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
I’m honestly surprised the Necropolis from Heroes of Might and Magic 5 wasn’t one of these. One of my personal favorite forms of necromancy in a video game.
Compared to the other factions, you have nearly 2-3 times as many units as them, and can automatically revive some of the units you lost. And even in the middle of battle, you gain the ability to use the Raise Dead spell. Every faction gets it, but the necropolis units specifically revive *every* unit when cast on them, and unlike every other faction, you keep the revived units when the combat ends.
Add in the fact after you win a battle, you get to animate some of the enemies fallen units as your own Necropolis specific units, meaning that unless an enemy kills you completely, you could come back in a few turns with an army to finish what you started.
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.
I beat everything in The Unlivig had to offer a year ago, and I gotta say it's been a fun ride.
Later on you unlock an NPC that lets you choose a loudout with bonus stats, where you can pick between minion buffs, sacrifice damage, hexweapon buffs ect.
PS I can help but notice that you seem to just pull your minions holding rightclick, once you have them in position just rightclick what you want them to attack and they get slightly more aggressive.
Thank you for the list I might even try a few games :D
Yeah I’ve gotten a lot better since when I made the original video lol.
The recordings in here, of where I played the Unliving was over a year ago, where it wasn’t even fully released yet.
gotta love the "life is good" whistle of York in the background, isn't that right Zack ?
For me I love necromancy in the game The Bloodline, which is also a fun casual game, even more fun fishing with your undead friends :)
Turning off the crusade system locks you out of the best ending.
It also means you miss out on fast travel on the over world. there are buildings that let you teleport to forts and bases, but you have to build them yourself.
I recommend using the Toybox mod, and using the 'murder hobo' option to instant win crusade fights
Yeah I have found out about those things AFTER I already turned them off🥲
Rimworld has a magic mod which allows your colonists to be a necromancer. Go for 'naked brutality' with a necromancer, it is good
I recommend trying HoMM5 for the Necropolis faction. They have a great arc in the campaign, but you can play single scenarios as well.
Corpse keeper is a fighting game where you resurrect and manage corpses that fight for you, its a roguelike with a fairly unique gameplay loop however theres no real necromancy in the game besides your character resurrecting bodies to fight for him (which you end up controlling anyway), that being said its probably one of my favourite roguelikes atm for its unique style
Grim Dawn is pretty great with the number of minions you can get. Especially with multiclassing
In Solo Leveling: Arise, the main character unlocks shadow necromancy powers as part of key story events. Though you'll need to progress a bit to unlock them, it's well worth the wait. You even get to summon some of the previous bosses.
I don't often subscribe these days. Dunno why it costs nothing. But I did for you bro.
Also I am gearing up to work on a game and I will have to add necromancy to it for sure. Already coming up with ideas to make it work and I am loving all of them.
Thank you for all the recommendations!
So glad he made this, can’t get enough of necro games
And I’m not gonna stop!
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
It was so much fun playing a necromancer in Two Worlds Two. I researched online how to get the correct spell cards. Then basically played a speed run until i had the right spells. Then i started playing the game for real.
You had me at "Necromancer". ❤
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.
So, about that tech-priest "legged platform"...
Those are his actual legs. The previous ones were made a flesh, and flesh is weak.
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!
Finally a fellow Necromancer lover!
I know im 3 months late but tales of Maj'eyal has a necromancer class that really feels good with a path to even turn into a lich
You don’t have to worry about being late. I should apologize for taking so long to finally cover the it in a new video.
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
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.
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.
As I've seen liches are always shown as IMMORTAL NECOMACERS, so if you have to choose 1 of 3 paths in which Necomancer and Lich are separate, then what is the difference? Exception the almost completely immortal form
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
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.
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 hear Arcanum has a pretty fun Necromancer experience.
long vid few ideas:
half minute hero (evil lord campaign)
risk of rain/ror2 (Happiest Mask/jar of souls)
elden ring (spirit ash)
warframe (revenant)
command and conquer 3: kane's wrath (marked of kane)
valheim (blood magic)
Two games you might've heard of.
Incremancer is an idle game where you'll eventually just watch your swarm kill humans, and they'll revive. It's free, too.
Its not a great game, but lichdom battlemage. It's got a kinda cool magic creation system, but, it's pretty one note beyond that. The idea is, use type A spells to 'charge' dmg on a foe, type B spells to do big dmg and consume the charge, and type c spells, for crowd control.
No 'class', but you'll likely use between 3 of 8 elements, each of which have some pros and cons for the element, the 'type' of effect the spells do, and how the spells work - basic projectile, aoe projectile, close range novas, shields, a few more - each 'style' also having three options, and function can change some per element, like a fire aoe projectile 'pool' makes, well, a ring of fire that's beat at stacking charge, despite fire normally being best at spending charge - ice, meanwhile, best at CC, and the pool can iirc lock foes in ice or prevent them from getting close.
Necromancy's not just an element - it's quite possibly the BEST charge type. Adding X charge per spell cast is fune, but takes time and leaves you vulnerable, because it's a fps style game.
Necromancy summons minions, natch. CC minions are warriors that draw aggro, but the charge skeletons, can still draw aggro, but are multiple archers that build slightly less charge per shot... But they don't fire 'a' arrow each. They can last minutes. So, you can launch bone archers from saftey, let them build a LOT of charge with a single spell, then pop out with the destruction spell that is boosted by the charge...
Insects with CC + necro charge means you can easily stop foes and charge them for the big drop, from saftey since these 'elements' are minion based rather than a fireball or ice spike that needs to be aimed and physically hitting a foe. Kill an infected insect cc'd enemy, they release more cc bugs. Pop out to explode the bodies, make sure your bone archers are still alive, it's pretty simple.
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👀
Honestly if I had notifications on I would have sent it to you. My computer broke lol. However, if you really like necromancy I suggest looking up videos on how to modify spirit ashes and npcs on elden ring using an external elden ring app. It was straight forward for me and I have added concentration issues, it's worth it. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get it for you but if your willing to put in the effort you'll love it.
Grim Dawn's first DLC adds a Necromancer class, and even before that it has summoning builds. It's good shite, it's just so terribly marketed that after eight years, nobody really knows it exists and is still getting updates.
I‘m actually currently playing it with the D3 classes mod. It definitely deserves more attention still.
@@RisingBlurTR Agreed. The forthcoming DLC is supposed to be its last, so... Maybe the game being 'complete' will garner some attention? They... Well TBH the Devs just haven't actually attempted any marketing in years, so it's not really surprising nobody seems to know it's there.
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.
I'm glad I reread the one game. I read Boneraiser Minions as "Bonerizer"
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
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 :)
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!
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.
When I imagine a necromancer I imagine a wizard wearing one of the mages tunics from skyrim, like a potato sack with a shoelace tied around the middle to hold it all together lmao
If you count mods, Battle Brothers has a mod called Legends that offers a scenario where you can play as a small group of necromancers
Mods are 100% counted and thank you for the recommendation!
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.
One older (Flash game) Necromancer game could try is Red Rogue. "A computer game, a side-scrolling roguelike-like by Aaron Steed with sound design by Nathan Gallardo" - From Net page. Dungeon crawl with Skeleton Minion.
Ever try Everquest? My favorite necromancer, for sure. Fear kiting? Making hp into mana? Crazy DOT spells? Charming an undead monster that'd require a whole party to kill to be your pet? Giving it a bunch of crazy gear??? The playstyles don't even stop there honestly like I read about a melee focused necromancer who tanked for his groups with life leech dots and life leech weapons.
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.
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 !
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
- Age of Wonders 4
It's kind of a Fantasy/DnD twist on Civilizations. One of the way you can build your faction is by going the Necromancy route. Just straight up raising armies of skeletons is fun. Also the game is very flexible when it comes to actually playing out your faction. Ice themed necro's, fire themed necro's, eldritch themed necro's, whatever floats yer boat.
- Endless Legends
Also a Fantasy spin on the 4x genre, there is a Faction called the Necrophages. Granted, it's less necromancy and more Hivemind insects, but you still get the fun part of eating and multiplying your own armies from the deaths of others.
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.
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~
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.
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
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.
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.
the mascot should be called ''Selvia, The First Necromancer"
Thanks for another vid!