Recognized many games. But... are you seriously going out of your way to experience a Necromancer in fantasy setting and ignoring modded Elder Scrolls/modded Skyrim specifically? Granted, you'll need a modpack that lets you do most with Necromancy, but c'mon.
For a non-combat necromancer, Graveyard Keeper does have a pretty fun necromancy mechanic. Like Stardew valley with necromancy and a bit more of an edge to it. Using reanimated undead to automate chores, which allows you to get on with the rest of the game
to be fair necromancers are basically the "let the minions handle it"/"die once and have to rebuild your army all over again" class so it's very fitting that most of these are either auto battlers or rouge likes
Dominions series has the best necromancy in any stragegy game, yep just straight up. Poison the air, accelerate aging, turn off the sun then watch as your enemies rot alive trying to stop your undead roman legions without any food, in total darkness, while their priests all busy dying from old age. Then get into a fight with r'lyeh, watch helplessly as they minburn, soulslay, or mind control every actually sentient part of your army, as your undead legions crumble to dust without any undead leadership left. You can summon hordes of undead, summon hordes of undead giants, turn your commanders into liches , destroy the world with global disasters, curse your living soldiers to turn into undead as they die, attempt to control your opponents undead, sacrifice virgins to create vampires and so on. And then there are undead specific divine magic, blessings, cross-path magic, magical items. Not enough? Try mods.
Yes! I must add that dominions 6 is most recent and content rich game of series, so you can just start from this one. And this game is have so much necromancy content. You have so much different kinds of undead. Zombies, skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, vampires. Many of monsters have undead forms. Like zombie or ghost giants, or skeleton bird people. You also have undead of different cultures. Like ancient german undead, Egypt-reptile undead, roman undead. And you even have different form factors! Like arcane undead, plant undead, devine ones, and that's just scratches a surface. Game have so much necromancy content, you will have to spend months to even try it out. But it's not just content. This game is one of deepest ones mechanically, that I ever seen. I recommend it to everyone.
Absolutely. The game is a bit complicated and the graphics aren't that great, but the mechanics and flavors of the game are fantastic. Every faction has access to any magic school and anyone can be a necromancer, but certain factions are specialized towards it in their own flavorful way. Want an undead roman legion? Of which kind? The ghost or the skeletal kind? What about an army of undead monkeys lead by powerful demonic rakshasas? Would you like to venture deep into the earth and bind the wandering bodies of the ancient pale ones to your service? Why use death magic to move a body when you can wrap it in vines, worms, and other things that crawl? You can also be the lizards and get banned because your faction is broken in MP.
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
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...
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!
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.
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.
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!
"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.
@RisingBlurTR Honestly forgot that was a thing for TH-cam 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.
Yeah! I‘m still currently playing through the game as the other two acolyte specifications and I know that the early game can be kinda boring after a bit. But the endgame is really really fun.
I 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
ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) has a full Necromancer class with some cool looking minions and soul-based spells. They even have an Ultimate that turns yourself into a giant mass of skeletons.
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.
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 :)
First, I want to say congrats on making it this far my fellow necromancer, and second if you haven't seen it yet, I would highly suggest V Rising, where you're a vampire trying to become overlord, with lots of spells, and prisoners, for minions including skelly boys pretty early on
I 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.
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).
My recommendations are Stubbs the Zombie, Ray's The Dead, Necroking, Corpse Keeper, and Divinity: Original Sin 2 Stubbs the Zombie is a wacky thid-person action game similar to Destroy All Humans except you play as a zombie and infect enemies but you don't have much control over them (My favorite game) Ray's The Dead is a top-down action game where you play as a zombie, infect enemies, and command them similarly to Overlord or Pikmin Nercroking is a roguelite deckbuilding strategy game where you plunder villages and build an army of the undead Corpse Keeper is a roguelite fighting game where you play as a necromancer who uses his slain foes to fight Original Sin 2 is a CRPG where you can spec into necromancer abilities. You can only have one summon out at a time but Odinblade's Necromancer Class Overhaul mod raises the cap (Also this game is made by Larian Studios, the ones who made Baldur's Gate 3)
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.
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 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.
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^^
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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~
Path of exile mentioned yippy... yeah poe summoners builds are uh, nutty. My favorite was my poets pen srs meat cannon build 😂, the build worked by more or less dropping summons directly into packs and then blowing up my own summons for rediculous amounts of fire damage, the best part was that it was back when your own summons corpses worked for corpse explosion, so i could get 2 detonations from each summon, dont remember exactly what they changed that finally killed that build but i took it all the way to level 100 and it was the only character i ever took all the way to 100 (for anyone who hasnt played, getting max character level is a milestone most players never accomplish bc it requires doing endgame content consistently fast without dying bc dying costs you xp to your next level so if you just die every map youll literally never level up)
There 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.
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 !
- 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.
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 original guild wars was much more necromancer then the second. It's kind of funny it is harder at first because you need to actualy kill things before you can summon undead then it get's easier as time goes on as you get more undead.
Not sure if this comment will be seen or if someone else already mentioned it but not only is there necromancy wizard for baldur's gate 3 but there is also circle of the spores druid, basically in addition to the animate dead spell you also gain extra abilities for left 4 dead type fungal zombies that may be weaker but can turn non-humanoid creatures to your side, and they lack a limit of how many you can have out trading it for a limited amount casted, multiclassing 6 necro wizard and 6 spore druid would get the best of both worlds in terms of necromancy
Don’t worry I read every comment! Even if I may not answer. And yeah, the spore Druid was mentioned A BUNCH already lol. I definitely have to try them at some point as well!
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 ;/
Grim Dawn has one of the better necromancer classes I've played. (huge necro and rpg fan). You actually feel like you have a minion army (once you get high enough) and their damage gets crazy. It's an ARPG like diablo if you haven't heard of it.
Heroes of Might and Magic series is also incredible. There was one necromancer in HoMaM V that was so incredibly broken, the more you attack him the bigger army he has lol
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.
About Baldur's Gate 3 at the higher levels you can have an army not even counting the WWZ Zombie with infection. Animate Dead i think can do 4 undead(Flying Ghouls can fly and paralyse, OP), then you also get Create Undead, mostly used for the Mummy. There is also a spell if you get a certain forbidden book and do its stuff on Act 3. Gives you an extra 5 Ghouls straight up. Now this is already 10 summons to do extra work for you. It gets crazier tho. Then you have all sorts of other summons, minor elemental(always summons 3) and just normal elemental and a higher version, Myrmidon. Then there is a Quasit, which isnt strong alone but can surprise enemies, which pretty much guarentees victory for most battles. Of high level summons theres Deva, its not that easy to get, but can be scribed into a wizard's spellbook. That makes 16, you can probably get a few more. Gotta know the game. :D
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.
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 TH-cam. I can not wait to see how this continues
It’s nice that you found Overlord that’s a childhood favorite of mine.
Congrats on the first year and becoming a name. Some folks it takes years of work.
Hey you might want to look into the last timestamps, the bards tale one is wrong and pops you out in Last epoch
Recognized many games.
But... are you seriously going out of your way to experience a Necromancer in fantasy setting and ignoring modded Elder Scrolls/modded Skyrim specifically? Granted, you'll need a modpack that lets you do most with Necromancy, but c'mon.
You can play a necromancer in Trove.
Just letting you know.
For a non-combat necromancer, Graveyard Keeper does have a pretty fun necromancy mechanic. Like Stardew valley with necromancy and a bit more of an edge to it. Using reanimated undead to automate chores, which allows you to get on with the rest of the game
And, you can cook, eat and sell human meat 😅😅😅
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Shame the game is so extremely grindy and all automatisation comes so late into the game
Thats what i was gonna suggest lol
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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 :)
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
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?
The power of just pointing to one dud and say "jump him" with an army of bones will never not be satisfying XD
Right Click to Necromance is so nostalgic
In Stellaris you can choose "Reanimators" civic for your space empire and resurrect killed leviathans.
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!
Get the Necromancy of thay in BG3. Then summon a mummy, 4 ghouls and a zombie
"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.
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 TH-cam 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.
I'm reinstalling Last Epoch right now, holy shit. I had no idea about the end game!
Yeah!
I‘m still currently playing through the game as the other two acolyte specifications and I know that the early game can be kinda boring after a bit. But the endgame is really really fun.
I 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
ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) has a full Necromancer class with some cool looking minions and soul-based spells. They even have an Ultimate that turns yourself into a giant mass of skeletons.
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.
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 :)
First, I want to say congrats on making it this far my fellow necromancer, and second if you haven't seen it yet, I would highly suggest V Rising, where you're a vampire trying to become overlord, with lots of spells, and prisoners, for minions including skelly boys pretty early on
I 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.
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).
My recommendations are Stubbs the Zombie, Ray's The Dead, Necroking, Corpse Keeper, and Divinity: Original Sin 2
Stubbs the Zombie is a wacky thid-person action game similar to Destroy All Humans except you play as a zombie and infect enemies but you don't have much control over them (My favorite game)
Ray's The Dead is a top-down action game where you play as a zombie, infect enemies, and command them similarly to Overlord or Pikmin
Nercroking is a roguelite deckbuilding strategy game where you plunder villages and build an army of the undead
Corpse Keeper is a roguelite fighting game where you play as a necromancer who uses his slain foes to fight
Original Sin 2 is a CRPG where you can spec into necromancer abilities. You can only have one summon out at a time but Odinblade's Necromancer Class Overhaul mod raises the cap (Also this game is made by Larian Studios, the ones who made Baldur's Gate 3)
I been edging for this video for a long time now, now its out I can finally feel relief.
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.
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 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!!!
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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
It’s kinda funny he posted a video during a stream
I recommend trying HoMM5 for the Necropolis faction. They have a great arc in the campaign, but you can play single scenarios as well.
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
West of Loathing has a necromancer subclass and questline
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 glad he made this, can’t get enough of necro games
And I’m not gonna stop!
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 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!
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
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.
The Guy IS so charismatic. Deserves so many more subs
You actually find me charismatic? I don’t think anyone ever said that to me.
@@RisingBlurTR i do. To stroke your ego a little bit:
Exibit A) look at your answer to a Nobody like me.
Exibit B) you have a Very mellow and disarming charm yet skill being UP beat. This IS valuable. Valuable and rare in Men, specially straight ones. The closest i can think of IS "pointy hat", and Antonio (the actual TH-camr) IS queer. So take that as you Will. The word we are looking for here is "adorable", i suppose.
(Also i would call you hot&stuff but i.k. this IS in poor taste so lets leve at charismatic)
That is actually like… really nice of you. Thank you a lot.
That means so much to me.
But do I really come across as straight? lol
@@RisingBlurTR you are so Very welcome.
No you dont. Im saying It because you said "you don't swing that way" on the video, which to me means you are straight.
Also, to me you come across as a gay/bi furry (no offense, i myself am one). But what do i know hah
I can live with coming across like that lmao
I hear Arcanum has a pretty fun Necromancer experience.
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👀
Really nice compilation
I feel like the next series would be something like
"Best warlock games"
Or
"Best games that you play as villian"
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
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.
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.
Damn looking at that older build for Soulstone Survivors brings back memories. And now today they released a patch where his abominations buff other summons and the necro himself
I'm glad I reread the one game. I read Boneraiser Minions as "Bonerizer"
the mascot should be called ''Selvia, The First Necromancer"
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.
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.
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
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~
Path of exile mentioned yippy... yeah poe summoners builds are uh, nutty. My favorite was my poets pen srs meat cannon build 😂, the build worked by more or less dropping summons directly into packs and then blowing up my own summons for rediculous amounts of fire damage, the best part was that it was back when your own summons corpses worked for corpse explosion, so i could get 2 detonations from each summon, dont remember exactly what they changed that finally killed that build but i took it all the way to level 100 and it was the only character i ever took all the way to 100 (for anyone who hasnt played, getting max character level is a milestone most players never accomplish bc it requires doing endgame content consistently fast without dying bc dying costs you xp to your next level so if you just die every map youll literally never level up)
There 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.
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 !
Well produced, great aesthetic, palpable hard work. That's a sub from me!
- 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.
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
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!
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 original guild wars was much more necromancer then the second. It's kind of funny it is harder at first because you need to actualy kill things before you can summon undead then it get's easier as time goes on as you get more undead.
You didn't even mention Skyrim which had the best necromancy spell ever, I loved the animation of raising the dead.
Not sure if this comment will be seen or if someone else already mentioned it but not only is there necromancy wizard for baldur's gate 3 but there is also circle of the spores druid, basically in addition to the animate dead spell you also gain extra abilities for left 4 dead type fungal zombies that may be weaker but can turn non-humanoid creatures to your side, and they lack a limit of how many you can have out trading it for a limited amount casted, multiclassing 6 necro wizard and 6 spore druid would get the best of both worlds in terms of necromancy
Don’t worry I read every comment!
Even if I may not answer. And yeah, the spore Druid was mentioned A BUNCH already lol. I definitely have to try them at some point as well!
There is one CRPG that is great to play through as a necromance, it's Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. Very good game
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.
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)
I feel every little word of your intro. one of us, one of us! ^-^
I love the emo wizard. summoning zombies is a quick way to get swarmed by the capital's holy church.
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.
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.
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.
Grim Dawn has one of the better necromancer classes I've played. (huge necro and rpg fan). You actually feel like you have a minion army (once you get high enough) and their damage gets crazy. It's an ARPG like diablo if you haven't heard of it.
So, about that tech-priest "legged platform"...
Those are his actual legs. The previous ones were made a flesh, and flesh is weak.
Heroes of Might and Magic series is also incredible. There was one necromancer in HoMaM V that was so incredibly broken, the more you attack him the bigger army he has lol
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Baldurs gate 3 try the spore druid you get your 4 spore zombies, an animated dead, and later a ghoul from creat undead
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.
Idk if it has been mentioned already but nekroplosis faction from hommV
Grim Dawn is pretty great with the number of minions you can get. Especially with multiclassing
You should take a look at "Be my horde" im loving it and its still in development.
About Baldur's Gate 3 at the higher levels you can have an army not even counting the WWZ Zombie with infection.
Animate Dead i think can do 4 undead(Flying Ghouls can fly and paralyse, OP), then you also get Create Undead, mostly used for the Mummy. There is also a spell if you get a certain forbidden book and do its stuff on Act 3. Gives you an extra 5 Ghouls straight up. Now this is already 10 summons to do extra work for you. It gets crazier tho.
Then you have all sorts of other summons, minor elemental(always summons 3) and just normal elemental and a higher version, Myrmidon. Then there is a Quasit, which isnt strong alone but can surprise enemies, which pretty much guarentees victory for most battles. Of high level summons theres Deva, its not that easy to get, but can be scribed into a wizard's spellbook. That makes 16, you can probably get a few more. Gotta know the game. :D
I SO DESPERATELY need to play more bg3 FUCK
The Necromancer in Rimworld is very funny^^
Finally a fellow Necromancer lover!
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.
project: gorgon has a very good necromancer "class", not the only class that can summon. being a spider/necro gives you the max number of summons
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.
If you are still looking for recomandation, Vrisng Is a vampire survival game that has a necromancy in it :3 Highly recomand the game