@@RisingBlurTR in certain circumstances you can absolutely get an extra 2-3 skelly vanguards into your abomination, which is a non-negligible amount of health.
"Necromancer Accountant". A very light, free game, with gameplay for half an hour at most. After that, it is completely depleted... and then it's (probably) just gets erased from your memory. Unbalanced, easily broken, but... But! What is in it is solid. It's just fun to play. That's all. These half an hour will just bring joy, and the game does not aim for more.
My suggestions for this are - Conquest of Elysium and Dominions, they're... a lot. - A little indie game called Unferat, very interesting. - Tales of Maj'Eyal, another roguelike with unlockable classes. - The Age of Wonders series, they're 4x strategy games, and necromancy is in all of them, Planetfall is sci-fi instead of fantasy but it still has something very close to it. - Exanima, another indie gem, though actually animating undead is a VERY late power, and you can only have up to 3. - Hero's Hour, indie game inspired by the Heroes of Might and Magic games, the combat plays like an autobattler with spells. - Soulash, an indie roguelike, there's a sequel in early access but it doesn't have necromancy yet. - Many of the Spellforce games, Spellforce 1+expansions, Spellforce 3 and Spellforce: Conquest of EO, the latter one especially as you have to craft your best undead. - Spellmasons, yet another indie roguelike, has a necromancer class, also in early access. - Zombie Night Terror, I don't think I have to explain this one. - West of Loathing, though the undead themselves have to be summoned through items you can make when you become one, and it's an in-game decision rather than a class. - Songs of Conquest, one of the factions has undead. - Streets of Rogue, unorthodox, one of the characters, the Zombie, infects everything they hit with the zombie virus, nonsense ensues. - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, old school, free to play roguelike with necromancy as one of the types of magic. - Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, really old RPG, White Necromancy is healing magic and allows you to resurrect people, Black Necromancy kills people, brings them back to speak to them and allows you to animate undead.
Soulash is absolutely up there! Haven't gotten much mileage out of Spellmasons' necromancy, but that's mostly because I've spent that time getting mileage out of intercontinental ballistic exploding bodies.
Oh Last Epoch... So curious, so intriguing. As someone whose played PoE for many years, Last Epoch seems to fix all my gripes I have with PoE. While maintaining all the good of PoE. I shall dance with you soon, my (new) beloved.
Warhammer Vermintide 2 has a Necromancer class, and Stellaris has some reanimating in it as well, though it’s tech based rather than magic. Heck, you can even revive space dinosaurs and giant space monsters that are sometimes bigger than planets
@@RisingBlurTR Didn’t know about Vermintide, or I probably just don’t remember In the gameplay, some of the space monsters you can resurrect look like their bigger than planets, and given that we have in-game creatures that canonically eat stars and have the size to match? I’m inclined to think that this is their actual size
A nice detail in Last Epoch is that there are two classes that can do 100% summoning (Necromancer and Beastmaster), and they operate differently enough to feel distinct from each other. A full-summon necro commands a small army, and a full zookeeper commands more of an elite squad. Both are fun for different reasons.
You could try Never Mourn, it is a new game, came out 13th of may 2024 and it is basically a game about how far you can go and what spells you mix. You have a weapon with two modes, heal and damage. heal allows you to resurrect enemy combatants to fill up your army and heal/buff your troops. The damage mode allows you to dash out spells and right clicks to kill enemy mobs faster. it is fast pace and goes hard the further you go. Every run allows you to lvl up which get you skill points to unlock faster resurrection speed, more damage, speed and such. I highly recommend it. It is a fun mid max necromancer game.
The full game for Throne of Bone is already out, and has been since early April; it added a couple new areas, and 4 new necromancers; 1 for each of the creature species (but their bonuses only somewhat coincide). Personally, I had a lot of trouble with the Fleshsmith, but basically what I found (seemed to carry me to unlocking the later ones): Keep species or class synergies alive. Make sure everyone either shares a species, or shares a class, or close enough; every time you merge 2, the bonus you select applies to *everything* with that type, including ones you haven't bought yet. Also you can speed up the autobattler part of gameplay up to x10. My overall thoughts are that it's a good semi-idle game; great for killing 15-20 minutes, without thinking too much, but I wouldn't say it's a *necromancer* game, just a necromancer *themed* game.
Yeah I know. The video… was in production for a bit longer than expected 🥲 I’m gonna check out the full version in the next video but yeah. It‘s definitely mostly just themed.
Try out Warlords Battlecry series. There is a Necromancer class for your hero...but in 3 it all goes bonkers levels with the proper equipment and stats.
Alright so I have somewhat dropped out of the Necro-loop for the past 2 installments, glad it's still going strong, but, after all this time, I still haven't heard one of my most favourite necromancy games mentioned since the first video where I wrote about it - that being Soulash, where you play as an avatar of a dark god reincarnated into a body of a chosen race and class. The necromancer is a playstyle of resource and minion management in that game, where you can absolutely grow a significant and sizeable army, but if you were to let them to bite off more than they can chew, that army can be quickly reduced in numbers by a single paladin with a holy weapon or something similar. I also like the fact that the game lets you source your own bodies for your army, and I especially love combining that aspect with the vampire race, where neither the blood nor the flesh of your enemies ever goes to waste. Soulash 2 has come out recently, no idea if that one has a necromancer class tho. Also would still be curious to hear what you think of Lichdom: Battlemage with its necromancy school apparently allowing for unlimited revived enemies fighting on your side - though only 3 of them will carry over between combat instances.
@@RisingBlurTR Soulash might be more amazing than the other one, in my personal opinion, but Lichdom _is_ a rare example of a first-person action mage game, with its own spellcrafting mechanics, so I hope you won't be disappointed.
I would like to add Wesnorth to the ever growing list. It’s a turn based strategy game and it those have a necromancer/undead faction you can play in one of the campaigns. It is on pc has well has on moblie, though the mobile version is a rather direct port. The UI is a bit big for a phone though, but it’s perfectly fine for any type of tablet. It definitely one of the best mobile game, especially when it comes to pure single player, not like the bare is super high. But I will warn you, from what I can tell, the only difference between the necromancer and the other factions is the unite they have, but that those include the zombies that can make more of them when they kill an enemy. They’re also a multiple variations of they, mostly from other species, but the only thing that changes between them is they’re résistance and movement characteristics. Also, skeletons can hide in deep water, kinda like that one scene in the first pirates of the Caribbean. Also also, the bandit faction is quite good against skeleton army, just wanted to mention that for no reason. Also also also, specifically mentioned to bugg, the first sea-orc, you try your best buddy o7
When the Monsters Domain early access first came out, it was so much better with how things were done, while also being more jank...cause you could have a LOT more undead with you at a time, and you even got to have some of the monsters following you. I don't know why they changed that...
In the old Warlords battlecry RTS series, the undead faction is pretty special for recruitment. You create advanced units by evolving them from dirt cheap skeletons which of course your necromancer hero can summon en masse... which means you can always call for reinforcements even in the middle of the enemy base, as long as you have the resources to turn your -meat- bone shields into super strong liches and doom knights
I'm glad you tried Bard's Tale. It was agreat game at its time, so much fun and hilarity and just all-around 'no f*cks given' jokes that would make today's professionally offended twitter residents absolutely self-destruct. It pokes fun at every trope it could, was decently long and its VA work was exceptional for the time. I still sing some of its songs randomly which, to the people that actually understand (I don't live in an English-speaking country) makes them burst out in laughter. Beer song is my favorite!
Has Soulash been suggested already? Its a top down sandbox-game where you play a newly reincarnated evil god trying to regain their strength by eating souls (thats how xp is contextualized). The Necromancer class has a big bold NO SUMMONING LIMIT
@@RisingBlurTR Looked it up. Didn't see any for mage, but sentinel has animated armors, primalist has animals and totems, rogue has a falcon, and you're familiar with acolyte.
@@RisingBlurTR Don't worry, it's less a jab at you or your video and more a jab at the general trend of indie games releasing demos/prologues and then youtubers reviewing them, thus making the reviews generally useless as most of those games will take another year if not more to release.
Nah I totally get that. The demos I chose are for games that are pretty close to release though, and should be out by now. The thing with this series is that I play what people recommended and I loterally just choose them randomly.
Age of Fear: the undead king, Super Grave Snatchers and Necronator: Dead Wrong are still some id recommend definitely the best that comes to mind is "Heroes of Annihilated Empires", imagine warcraft, but with thousands upon thousands of units on screen, the necromancer is very fun
My set of drows in my head everytime you post a new video "Oh it's hell a fun to be Blur" Love your job, Love your Streams, Love your energy. Have a spooky day and a lot of bones. 💀
Easily the most zombies of games: Stubbs the Zombie. Directly eat human brains, and directly convert enemy units into zombies and lead them into combat. Next best is the Infectinator franchise (and Necronator) where you conquer the world with zombies. Its on Steam, Newgrounds, or Kongregate. Kingdom Rush: Frontiers (Steam) is a tower defense game with the "Necromancer Tower" which raises dead enemies as zombies with bigger enemies making bigger zombies. And you can summon a Death Rider which buffs said zombies. *And it has the hero Alric who can infuse sand with the souls of his dead war brothers as sand golemn zombies (technically necromancy??) *And the hero Voodoo Witch (the first Necromancers) Bruxa rips out enemy skulls which orbit her and shoot energy blasts before kamikaze rushing enemies. Kingdom Rush: Vengeance has the "Grim Cemetery" tower which also converts dead enemies into zombies. And the "Bone Flinger" tower which can raise infinite bone warriors and a giant bone golem. And hero Mortemis turns enemies into zombies and has a terror aura.
My friend, I don't know how to say this, but a Bard's Tale retrospective is what I need in my un/life. That game was my childhood. Really happy to hear you enjoyed it.
It's a true roguelike, and hard as hell (at least for me), but you can totally be a necromancer, as well as possibly worshipping the necromancy deity in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup,
I recomend you shadows of forbidden gods, it does not have much necromancy, but it is one of the many tools you have to win the game. I never used it (because there are a ton of character, mechanics and everything) but I know it's there. Its one of the three paths the generic agent "the warlock" can use. So idk if it is good. But the game itself is a masterpiece. It is about being a dark eldritch god, that has to conquer/destroy the world, and you command agents to do your will. There are many gods, all except the snake (the most simple one to teach the game), have awesome mechanics, there is a god of madness that with a magic book spreads chaos and confusion everywhere, a goddess of nature that tricks people into eating her fruits until they fully depend on her to live and 3 more all very interesting. There are a ton of mechanics to use: Infiltrate and corrupt people, spread the plague to cause harm (or maybe heal it to gain their trust), ravage the towns so the cities starve, cause revolutions, lead an orkish warband, create a religion, make wars between kingdoms or religious schisms, use earth, blood or necromantic magic... And many more.
I feel that I should do my part. One game with necromancer stuff that is quite fun would be Dwarf fortress. If you know what it is than just remember the "new" steam version is actually playable for normal people. Or if you don't know what it is then I can't help you, God bless you if you go in blind. (The necromancer stuff is in the adventure mode in the beta branch of the game, since the one and a half devs haven't fully ported it to the steam version yet)
Don't know if anyone recomended this game yet, but SpellForce: Conquest of Eo has a pretty interesting necromancer option to play as. It is a turn based strategy game, but it's mechanics for summoning are good.
Glad to see Last Epoch get some love! A couple more necromancy games I came across: Realms of Magic: Similar to Starbound, there's a necromancy tree (though mostly dealing with summoning the undead). Be My Horde: Rogue-lite necro mommy
You should check out age of wonders 4. you can be an absolutely dispicable necromancer, capable of raising legions of soldiers or even skeletal dragons.
I'm sure you've gotten been suggested this 100 times but I'd like to add to the tally and recommend Grim Dawn. It's kind of diablo like. The necromancer proper class is behind a DLC but you can play Occultist with the base game which is practically the same but it's eldritch creatures and not people.
I actually played that a while ago on stream! We tried it together with the Diablo class mod that adds all classes from Diablo 3 and immortal. Meaning I was able to go double necromancer!! Definitely need to play it some more before I can feature it here… but I have to reinstall the mod on my new pc first lol.
Sadly I don't have any recommendation that comes close to Last Epoch there. Um... V Rising lets your vampire protagonist summon skeleton minions with Unholy magic? It really piles up, you get spells that spawn minion on hit, they inflict a status effect that spawns minions when that enemy dies, you get a shield that spawns minions each time it's hit (great for the projectile-spammy bosses), there's an Ultimate that summons even more, with skeleton mages as well... There's bone explosions, undead spiders, skull projectiles.... And on the tabletop front, Vampire: The Masquerade has several playable clans that use Necromancy, including vampire mafiosos and rotting voudoun corpses. It does involve the classic corpse reanimation, but also binding and commanding ghosts to haunt or spy on people, inflicting curses, weaponizing decay itself, crossing over into the Shadowlands (where ghosts are), feeling on the essence of ghosts instead of blood, etc. It's way more roleplay-heavy, obviously, but the flavor of all the abilities and rituals is awesome. It does get pretty morbid, even by necromancers' standards.
hI ! Super video ! If you like necromancer try the mod the old world on banner lord 2 you can play necromancer or vampire count and they are pretty neat !
in last epoch i hate that i got the wraith lord item, it's soo soo soo strong that if i go back to the regular many minions build it feels bad. i wish, in the future, we get a "many minion" build that can compete with the wraith lord build.
I haven't played many necromancer games ( despite them being one of my favorite fantasy things) the closest I've come so far was total war warhammer 3 with the vampire counts
@@RisingBlurTR Didn't know it had a d3 mod, that's cool. Might have to go look for what else is out there. I'm using GD Item Assistant which gives an effectively infinite and searchable storage. Super nice if you don't want to make extra characters just to store items.
Lick Diablo ist the game. Only necromancer Class or Dual Class with necromancer. The developers have been working on the game for years and are still doing it.
The change is OK but s far as jokes landing it's a most impact from me. Though ya tend to be found late nights and entertainment heavy were brains rolling down. Thinks for also be a constant local of dark mastery. Btw even if it's flat give 2dlc of warhammer total war a round. Get 3 get the vamp court and coast. Just enjoy. Those faction packs are all undead happy. With EVEN! A dedicated necro lords as couts go. The cost are more necro pirates. If ya like RTS and turn strategies. It's a decent title with a FAT roster. From nuke and monster making happy rats to up the ass they may as well be brown English. Mod community also prity rich.
You didn't have a musical segment for Bard's tale, 0/10 video You did draw a really nice forest background though, so +5.... Last Epoch also looks good, so +5...
Your Necromancer games only are rpg's? because I know at least 2 games with Necromancer experiences but are Strategy, being Warcraft 3 the most obvious and Dominions the next.
Problem is - all this necromancer games have no deep. Almost zero roleplay. No learning of forbidden magic, no searching of dark knowledge, no lifestyle of necromancer - nothing. Just pure combat mechanics of summoner class.
@@RisingBlurTR Oh, i can only dream about game, with detailed and immersive necromancer roleplay. But personally i have no idea if something at least close to this - is exist. I had some interesting moments in BG3, learning Necromancy of Thay, create shadow lantern, raise different types of undead from corpses and bones. BG3 necromancy far from perfect - but its something. Interesting - Conan Exiles sorcery gave me some feeling of dark mage or necromancer, who actually works on his dark art - not just level up and became a necromancy god...
The point of the series is that I play the games that I get recommended. But it‘s my bad for it not being as obvious this time. I forgot to add the comments in this episode 🥲
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Abomination that devours minions and a passive that summons more minions every time one dies? Hello infinite stats.
It sadly isn’t AS cheesable because their number is limited and it is percentage chance based. But it is so easy to increase your numbers.
@@RisingBlurTR in certain circumstances you can absolutely get an extra 2-3 skelly vanguards into your abomination, which is a non-negligible amount of health.
Hello again my necromancer lord 💀
Hello!
"Necromancer Accountant". A very light, free game, with gameplay for half an hour at most. After that, it is completely depleted... and then it's (probably) just gets erased from your memory. Unbalanced, easily broken, but... But! What is in it is solid. It's just fun to play. That's all. These half an hour will just bring joy, and the game does not aim for more.
Ill try it then
My suggestions for this are
- Conquest of Elysium and Dominions, they're... a lot.
- A little indie game called Unferat, very interesting.
- Tales of Maj'Eyal, another roguelike with unlockable classes.
- The Age of Wonders series, they're 4x strategy games, and necromancy is in all of them, Planetfall is sci-fi instead of fantasy but it still has something very close to it.
- Exanima, another indie gem, though actually animating undead is a VERY late power, and you can only have up to 3.
- Hero's Hour, indie game inspired by the Heroes of Might and Magic games, the combat plays like an autobattler with spells.
- Soulash, an indie roguelike, there's a sequel in early access but it doesn't have necromancy yet.
- Many of the Spellforce games, Spellforce 1+expansions, Spellforce 3 and Spellforce: Conquest of EO, the latter one especially as you have to craft your best undead.
- Spellmasons, yet another indie roguelike, has a necromancer class, also in early access.
- Zombie Night Terror, I don't think I have to explain this one.
- West of Loathing, though the undead themselves have to be summoned through items you can make when you become one, and it's an in-game decision rather than a class.
- Songs of Conquest, one of the factions has undead.
- Streets of Rogue, unorthodox, one of the characters, the Zombie, infects everything they hit with the zombie virus, nonsense ensues.
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, old school, free to play roguelike with necromancy as one of the types of magic.
- Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, really old RPG, White Necromancy is healing magic and allows you to resurrect people, Black Necromancy kills people, brings them back to speak to them and allows you to animate undead.
Don’t forget master of magic, the predecesor to AOW.
Soulash is absolutely up there!
Haven't gotten much mileage out of Spellmasons' necromancy, but that's mostly because I've spent that time getting mileage out of intercontinental ballistic exploding bodies.
I cant believe someone reccomended Dominions! Btw, good luck, im behind 7000 skeletons.
Oh Last Epoch... So curious, so intriguing.
As someone whose played PoE for many years, Last Epoch seems to fix all my gripes I have with PoE. While maintaining all the good of PoE.
I shall dance with you soon, my (new) beloved.
I can definitely recommend it as someone who also loves POE.
@RisingBlurTR have you tried ToME4? The Necromancer class there is frigging awesome!
I can't wait for PoE 2 ngl
with the witch reveal she looks so much fun
Warhammer Vermintide 2 has a Necromancer class, and Stellaris has some reanimating in it as well, though it’s tech based rather than magic. Heck, you can even revive space dinosaurs and giant space monsters that are sometimes bigger than planets
Vermintide was already featured in a previous video. But… Stellaris is news to me. Bigger than planets you say?👀
@@RisingBlurTR Didn’t know about Vermintide, or I probably just don’t remember
In the gameplay, some of the space monsters you can resurrect look like their bigger than planets, and given that we have in-game creatures that canonically eat stars and have the size to match? I’m inclined to think that this is their actual size
A nice detail in Last Epoch is that there are two classes that can do 100% summoning (Necromancer and Beastmaster), and they operate differently enough to feel distinct from each other. A full-summon necro commands a small army, and a full zookeeper commands more of an elite squad. Both are fun for different reasons.
just gonna recommend V-Rising. There are no classes but you can build your character around the necromancy spells and they go hard.
Love the previously on the best necromancer games, gave me a good chuckle XD
Yeah I thought it was really funny as well lol
You could try Never Mourn, it is a new game, came out 13th of may 2024 and it is basically a game about how far you can go and what spells you mix. You have a weapon with two modes, heal and damage. heal allows you to resurrect enemy combatants to fill up your army and heal/buff your troops. The damage mode allows you to dash out spells and right clicks to kill enemy mobs faster. it is fast pace and goes hard the further you go. Every run allows you to lvl up which get you skill points to unlock faster resurrection speed, more damage, speed and such. I highly recommend it. It is a fun mid max necromancer game.
Bard's Tale really was a hilarious little ARPG, it still holds a special place in my heart. "Oh it's bad luck to be you~!"
The full game for Throne of Bone is already out, and has been since early April; it added a couple new areas, and 4 new necromancers; 1 for each of the creature species (but their bonuses only somewhat coincide). Personally, I had a lot of trouble with the Fleshsmith, but basically what I found (seemed to carry me to unlocking the later ones): Keep species or class synergies alive. Make sure everyone either shares a species, or shares a class, or close enough; every time you merge 2, the bonus you select applies to *everything* with that type, including ones you haven't bought yet. Also you can speed up the autobattler part of gameplay up to x10.
My overall thoughts are that it's a good semi-idle game; great for killing 15-20 minutes, without thinking too much, but I wouldn't say it's a *necromancer* game, just a necromancer *themed* game.
Yeah I know. The video… was in production for a bit longer than expected 🥲 I’m gonna check out the full version in the next video but yeah. It‘s definitely mostly just themed.
I'm so glad there are so many nocromancers enthusiasts around. And of course the overlord tier is just perfection.
The Lord of Bones returns to us!
Try out Warlords Battlecry series. There is a Necromancer class for your hero...but in 3 it all goes bonkers levels with the proper equipment and stats.
hello happy that there is are more necromancer games
Me too!
Alright so I have somewhat dropped out of the Necro-loop for the past 2 installments, glad it's still going strong, but, after all this time, I still haven't heard one of my most favourite necromancy games mentioned since the first video where I wrote about it - that being Soulash, where you play as an avatar of a dark god reincarnated into a body of a chosen race and class.
The necromancer is a playstyle of resource and minion management in that game, where you can absolutely grow a significant and sizeable army, but if you were to let them to bite off more than they can chew, that army can be quickly reduced in numbers by a single paladin with a holy weapon or something similar.
I also like the fact that the game lets you source your own bodies for your army, and I especially love combining that aspect with the vampire race, where neither the blood nor the flesh of your enemies ever goes to waste.
Soulash 2 has come out recently, no idea if that one has a necromancer class tho.
Also would still be curious to hear what you think of Lichdom: Battlemage with its necromancy school apparently allowing for unlimited revived enemies fighting on your side - though only 3 of them will carry over between combat instances.
Sorry for being so slow in getting through the games. But I put both of them on the top of the list because you really made them sound amazing!
@@RisingBlurTR Soulash might be more amazing than the other one, in my personal opinion, but Lichdom _is_ a rare example of a first-person action mage game, with its own spellcrafting mechanics, so I hope you won't be disappointed.
Ok, you talked me into it, just bought Last Epoch, :3
I would like to add Wesnorth to the ever growing list. It’s a turn based strategy game and it those have a necromancer/undead faction you can play in one of the campaigns.
It is on pc has well has on moblie, though the mobile version is a rather direct port. The UI is a bit big for a phone though, but it’s perfectly fine for any type of tablet.
It definitely one of the best mobile game, especially when it comes to pure single player, not like the bare is super high.
But I will warn you, from what I can tell, the only difference between the necromancer and the other factions is the unite they have, but that those include the zombies that can make more of them when they kill an enemy. They’re also a multiple variations of they, mostly from other species, but the only thing that changes between them is they’re résistance and movement characteristics.
Also, skeletons can hide in deep water, kinda like that one scene in the first pirates of the Caribbean.
Also also, the bandit faction is quite good against skeleton army, just wanted to mention that for no reason.
Also also also, specifically mentioned to bugg, the first sea-orc, you try your best buddy o7
Isn't Wesnorth one of those early-2000s, freeware straight from the developer's site games? Like Transcendence.
I won't lie to you, you got me with the thumbnail. Will update if anything interesting developed from there.
Thank you for confirming that it works lmao😇
I do hope you are enjoying the rest as well though!
If you liked Last Epoch, you might enjoy Grim Dawn as well. The necromancer mastery is found in the expansion called Ashes of Malmouth. :)
This. While I personally love the vanilla GD necromancer, I hear there is also an overhaul mod to make it feel like Diablo 2, if that is your vibe.
@@AtrakKarta not just make it feel like D2. It's a port of D2 into Grim Dawn. Pretty fun
When the Monsters Domain early access first came out, it was so much better with how things were done, while also being more jank...cause you could have a LOT more undead with you at a time, and you even got to have some of the monsters following you. I don't know why they changed that...
Aw. That sounds like a lot more fun.
I have seen that they basically just made it worse with every update. But man🥲
In the old Warlords battlecry RTS series, the undead faction is pretty special for recruitment. You create advanced units by evolving them from dirt cheap skeletons which of course your necromancer hero can summon en masse... which means you can always call for reinforcements even in the middle of the enemy base, as long as you have the resources to turn your -meat- bone shields into super strong liches and doom knights
God, I wish we could get new battlecry, the old ones are so old my not even so modern PC is having problems with running them without crashing.
Free my boy he don't deserve this torture all he wanted was to play necromancer games
FR 😭
Yes! More necromancer goodness!!! I love you for undertaking this exploration to find good necro games!
Thank you! I am also happy to just get so many recommendations from people with games I never even heard about!!!
@@RisingBlurTR true, a small treat for your work.
I've just played Last Epoch because of you and you're right. It's damn fun.
I so love all the animations and how much effort went into making the video fun... pure excellence :D
I'm glad you tried Bard's Tale. It was agreat game at its time, so much fun and hilarity and just all-around 'no f*cks given' jokes that would make today's professionally offended twitter residents absolutely self-destruct. It pokes fun at every trope it could, was decently long and its VA work was exceptional for the time. I still sing some of its songs randomly which, to the people that actually understand (I don't live in an English-speaking country) makes them burst out in laughter. Beer song is my favorite!
Actually same. I absolutely love it and me and my partner constantly sing the songs!
I love these videos I love necromancer and summoning classes and I’ve found a lot of games with them Because of you so thanks for the games
Thank you for such a nice comment! I also have found so many games through this that I never would have played otherwise.
Hey, been debating getting the bards tale for a while. Watching you play it i thought, might as well try it. Absolutely phenomenal game for me.
Game‘s a delight! It has it bad parts but they are quickly over and still manageable.
Has Soulash been suggested already? Its a top down sandbox-game where you play a newly reincarnated evil god trying to regain their strength by eating souls (thats how xp is contextualized). The Necromancer class has a big bold NO SUMMONING LIMIT
If I remember right, any class in Last Epoch can be a flavor of summoner.
*Every Class*??? 👀
@@RisingBlurTR Looked it up. Didn't see any for mage, but sentinel has animated armors, primalist has animals and totems, rogue has a falcon, and you're familiar with acolyte.
Oh wow a video about necromancer games, which i'm interested in! I sure do hope that half of the video won't be spend on demos.
Fair complaint.
Wasnt really my intention and I noticed it to late, sorry
@@RisingBlurTR Don't worry, it's less a jab at you or your video and more a jab at the general trend of indie games releasing demos/prologues and then youtubers reviewing them, thus making the reviews generally useless as most of those games will take another year if not more to release.
Nah I totally get that. The demos I chose are for games that are pretty close to release though, and should be out by now.
The thing with this series is that I play what people recommended and I loterally just choose them randomly.
Age of Fear: the undead king, Super Grave Snatchers and Necronator: Dead Wrong are still some id recommend
definitely the best that comes to mind is "Heroes of Annihilated Empires", imagine warcraft, but with thousands upon thousands of units on screen, the necromancer is very fun
pathfinder wotr is easily the best necromancer experience in a game that i've ever had - both gameplay wise , and rp wise.
It is really cool that a game for once actually questions your morality for being a necromancer. I loved that part.
@@RisingBlurTR yep. The rp flavour is honestly unmatched in any other crpg i've ever played
LastEpoch Lich is dope too. I built a lich around still summoning with some aura/AoE dmg for backup and it worked really well.
You’ve sold me on Last Epoch
Now to wait for it to go on sale again because I can’t afford games this month
Last Epoch is free to play 👀
@@RisingBlurTR EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME?!
EDIT: on steam no it ain't
Wait it isn’t?
I‘m sorry to disappoint you then. I genuinely thought it was.
My set of drows in my head everytime you post a new video "Oh it's hell a fun to be Blur"
Love your job, Love your Streams, Love your energy.
Have a spooky day and a lot of bones. 💀
Thank you so much for these kind words. I always also just love it when you show up in the streams!
@@RisingBlurTR Maybe I'll catch you in the next one. ;)
I really really love the funny doodleing. Well done.
Easily the most zombies of games: Stubbs the Zombie. Directly eat human brains, and directly convert enemy units into zombies and lead them into combat.
Next best is the Infectinator franchise (and Necronator) where you conquer the world with zombies. Its on Steam, Newgrounds, or Kongregate.
Kingdom Rush: Frontiers (Steam) is a tower defense game with the "Necromancer Tower" which raises dead enemies as zombies with bigger enemies making bigger zombies. And you can summon a Death Rider which buffs said zombies.
*And it has the hero Alric who can infuse sand with the souls of his dead war brothers as sand golemn zombies (technically necromancy??)
*And the hero Voodoo Witch (the first Necromancers) Bruxa rips out enemy skulls which orbit her and shoot energy blasts before kamikaze rushing enemies.
Kingdom Rush: Vengeance has the "Grim Cemetery" tower which also converts dead enemies into zombies. And the "Bone Flinger" tower which can raise infinite bone warriors and a giant bone golem. And hero Mortemis turns enemies into zombies and has a terror aura.
Spellforce: Conquest of Eo also allows you to play as a Necromancer. Its also great
Spellforce shadow of phoenix also gives players the chance to be anything they want , including paladins and necromancers
awesome, new video :D And watching you play a bard's tale was so much fun as well :)
Thank you! Yes! Loved every minute of it :D
My friend, I don't know how to say this, but a Bard's Tale retrospective is what I need in my un/life. That game was my childhood.
Really happy to hear you enjoyed it.
Game was a fuckin wild ride. Wouldn’t mind making one in the future! With all the hilarious bullshit happening in it lol.
4:12 If you ever get the chance to hop through time'n'space, plz give this shopkeep a radio or announcer job.
True.
I would love him to look at The Bloodline.
It's a true roguelike, and hard as hell (at least for me), but you can totally be a necromancer, as well as possibly worshipping the necromancy deity in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup,
I recomend you shadows of forbidden gods, it does not have much necromancy, but it is one of the many tools you have to win the game.
I never used it (because there are a ton of character, mechanics and everything) but I know it's there. Its one of the three paths the generic agent "the warlock" can use. So idk if it is good.
But the game itself is a masterpiece. It is about being a dark eldritch god, that has to conquer/destroy the world, and you command agents to do your will.
There are many gods, all except the snake (the most simple one to teach the game), have awesome mechanics, there is a god of madness that with a magic book spreads chaos and confusion everywhere, a goddess of nature that tricks people into eating her fruits until they fully depend on her to live and 3 more all very interesting.
There are a ton of mechanics to use: Infiltrate and corrupt people, spread the plague to cause harm (or maybe heal it to gain their trust), ravage the towns so the cities starve, cause revolutions, lead an orkish warband, create a religion, make wars between kingdoms or religious schisms, use earth, blood or necromantic magic... And many more.
You can farm keys to dungeons in monoliths. I mean they are sometimes rewards for finishing nodes.
wonderfully devilish... cannot wait for more necromancer games to be covered.
Same tbh. It‘s staggering how I am still not even a quarter through the list I made.
MY BLUE EYES!!! IMPOSSIBLE
Let’s go ! I’ve been wanting so necromancer games.
I feel that I should do my part. One game with necromancer stuff that is quite fun would be Dwarf fortress. If you know what it is than just remember the "new" steam version is actually playable for normal people. Or if you don't know what it is then I can't help you, God bless you if you go in blind. (The necromancer stuff is in the adventure mode in the beta branch of the game, since the one and a half devs haven't fully ported it to the steam version yet)
Heh. Blind
@@griffinmckenzie7203 Ye
Don't know if anyone recomended this game yet, but SpellForce: Conquest of Eo has a pretty interesting necromancer option to play as. It is a turn based strategy game, but it's mechanics for summoning are good.
Last Epoch every time reminds me of Titan Quest on crack with the summons.
Never played titan quest but it is RIDICULOUS with the summons! Only thing that comes close is POE.
Glad to see Last Epoch get some love! A couple more necromancy games I came across:
Realms of Magic: Similar to Starbound, there's a necromancy tree (though mostly dealing with summoning the undead).
Be My Horde: Rogue-lite necro mommy
You should check out age of wonders 4. you can be an absolutely dispicable necromancer, capable of raising legions of soldiers or even skeletal dragons.
I'm sure you've gotten been suggested this 100 times but I'd like to add to the tally and recommend Grim Dawn. It's kind of diablo like. The necromancer proper class is behind a DLC but you can play Occultist with the base game which is practically the same but it's eldritch creatures and not people.
I actually played that a while ago on stream!
We tried it together with the Diablo class mod that adds all classes from Diablo 3 and immortal.
Meaning I was able to go double necromancer!!
Definitely need to play it some more before I can feature it here… but I have to reinstall the mod on my new pc first lol.
Best "in previous episode.." recapture I have seen in a year
Love the video, more subs to come!
Thank you!!
I shall raise "I of the Dragon" again.
Ancient and janky but damn, do I have a fondness for that one.
Grim dawn has a great necromancer as well as being my favorite arpg of all time.
Conquest o Elysium 5 has an great necromancer fction, letting you reaise the dead and even summoning powerfull undead creatures
Heyy, it's necromamcer guy!
If Lost Epoch comes to console I'm snagging it
So true. Game‘s fucking amazing.
Would reccomend "Be my Horde" It is alot like Right Click to Necromance
Sadly I don't have any recommendation that comes close to Last Epoch there.
Um... V Rising lets your vampire protagonist summon skeleton minions with Unholy magic? It really piles up, you get spells that spawn minion on hit, they inflict a status effect that spawns minions when that enemy dies, you get a shield that spawns minions each time it's hit (great for the projectile-spammy bosses), there's an Ultimate that summons even more, with skeleton mages as well... There's bone explosions, undead spiders, skull projectiles....
And on the tabletop front, Vampire: The Masquerade has several playable clans that use Necromancy, including vampire mafiosos and rotting voudoun corpses.
It does involve the classic corpse reanimation, but also binding and commanding ghosts to haunt or spy on people, inflicting curses, weaponizing decay itself, crossing over into the Shadowlands (where ghosts are), feeling on the essence of ghosts instead of blood, etc. It's way more roleplay-heavy, obviously, but the flavor of all the abilities and rituals is awesome. It does get pretty morbid, even by necromancers' standards.
Great video as always!
MOOOORE NECROMANCYYYYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WHOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOO
hI ! Super video !
If you like necromancer try the mod the old world on banner lord 2 you can play necromancer or vampire count and they are pretty neat !
in last epoch i hate that i got the wraith lord item, it's soo soo soo strong that if i go back to the regular many minions build it feels bad.
i wish, in the future, we get a "many minion" build that can compete with the wraith lord build.
MORE NECROMANCY GAMES
Age of Wonders 3 and 4 have 4x strategy games with necromancer path for you to follow and is fantastic
Bards Tale is the goat
Ibdont know if was said but, 8 have two games that are very similar Might & Magic Heroes V and III and also a spiritual successor, Age of Wonders 4
Grim Dawn was the first spiritual succesor to diablo 2 hahaha
Yeah probably lol.
I haven't played many necromancer games ( despite them being one of my favorite fantasy things) the closest I've come so far was total war warhammer 3 with the vampire counts
If pikmin is on the list
How about the wonderful 101
Fair thought!
But wonderful 101 doesn’t require you to kill enemies to grow your army, does it?
@@RisingBlurTR it does
Have you done Grim Dawn yet? One of the DLCs has a dedicated Necromancer class.
I tried it in a livestream once, I have to play some more though.
@@RisingBlurTR I've got a maxed out pet build that I think caps out at 19 permanent pets.
Also, Grim Dawn is caulk FULL of secrets.
Oh that’s really cool! I played it with the d3 classes mod. So it also was really fun so far.
@@RisingBlurTR Didn't know it had a d3 mod, that's cool. Might have to go look for what else is out there.
I'm using GD Item Assistant which gives an effectively infinite and searchable storage. Super nice if you don't want to make extra characters just to store items.
Neat.
I hope he has seen the path of exile 2 necromancer :)
Have you tried out Auto necrochess yet? It's not too long, pretty interesting and pretty challenging, especially because of one particular enemy....
Hello Necromancer lover friends. Unknown Game “Grim Dawn”
Predominantly Singeger player game. Not mmo. But you can play with a friend.
Lick Diablo ist the game. Only necromancer Class or Dual Class with necromancer. The developers have been working on the game for years and are still doing it.
It‘s definitely gonna get featured soon!
Its importen Base game + BLC ( Ashes of Malmouth) . Base Game7 Classes and the BLC + 2 Classes (Necromancer)
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Playing Last Epoch while watching this.
...early access?
in monster domain i think its doom eternal they took it form
Do dwarf fortress adventure mode if you get a necromancer book that is
The change is OK but s far as jokes landing it's a most impact from me. Though ya tend to be found late nights and entertainment heavy were brains rolling down. Thinks for also be a constant local of dark mastery. Btw even if it's flat give 2dlc of warhammer total war a round. Get 3 get the vamp court and coast. Just enjoy. Those faction packs are all undead happy. With EVEN! A dedicated necro lords as couts go. The cost are more necro pirates. If ya like RTS and turn strategies. It's a decent title with a FAT roster. From nuke and monster making happy rats to up the ass they may as well be brown English. Mod community also prity rich.
You didn't have a musical segment for Bard's tale, 0/10 video
You did draw a really nice forest background though, so +5....
Last Epoch also looks good, so +5...
Sorry… a musical segment was planned. But it sadly wasn’t in the budget😔
Would overlord and overlord 2 classify as necromancer games? if yes then play them they are peak
If not, play them too idc they are that good
oh you played them... And you gave it an S. good you earned a sub sir
Now do vampire games
In the overlord tier, is that undead horde 1 or 2?
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@@RisingBlurTR I thought the 2nd one was better because of all the necropolis upgrades. Gotta check out the first one again 😄
You should play graveyard keeper
Your Necromancer games only are rpg's? because I know at least 2 games with Necromancer experiences but are Strategy, being Warcraft 3 the most obvious and Dominions the next.
LICH MAN
:)
Problem is - all this necromancer games have no deep. Almost zero roleplay. No learning of forbidden magic, no searching of dark knowledge, no lifestyle of necromancer - nothing. Just pure combat mechanics of summoner class.
That is true. If you know one that allows you to more go into that direction, I’m open for recommendations.
@@RisingBlurTR Oh, i can only dream about game, with detailed and immersive necromancer roleplay. But personally i have no idea if something at least close to this - is exist. I had some interesting moments in BG3, learning Necromancy of Thay, create shadow lantern, raise different types of undead from corpses and bones. BG3 necromancy far from perfect - but its something. Interesting - Conan Exiles sorcery gave me some feeling of dark mage or necromancer, who actually works on his dark art - not just level up and became a necromancy god...
Grim dawn
play grim dawn
Ok.
Still no Conquest of Elysium 5 smh
well hello there, well sorry for if i probably i'll give you're a useless info to you, this late, but there another necromancer game name Be My Horde
I don't really understand why The Bards Tale ARPG is included in this list which is not essentially a necromancer game in terms of gameplay
The point of the series is that I play the games that I get recommended.
But it‘s my bad for it not being as obvious this time. I forgot to add the comments in this episode 🥲
try shadow of war rn
Already did.