Iratus: Wrath of the Necromancer DLC is now available!
In Iratus you find yourself fighting for the forces of darkness in the role of the titular necromancer—Iratus, recently freed from his millennia-long imprisonment.
You control an obedient army of the living dead, with skeletons, zombie...
In Iratus you find yourself fighting for the forces of darkness in the role of the titular necromancer—Iratus, recently freed from his millennia-long imprisonment.
You control an obedient army of the living dead, with skeletons, zombies, banshees and many other unliving warriors. Create your soldiers the only way a necromancer knows how: from the body parts of your slain enemies!
Expand and improve your underground lair. Strengthen your servants by researching secret rituals. Explore the twisted corridors and underground catacombs, and battle against lobotomized miners, greedy dwarves and corrupt mercenaries. Aid Iratus in his quest to recapture and eclipse his former power. Lead him to conquer the forces of good and unleash an eternal kingdom of death upon the world!
The sheer variety of tactical and strategic options makes Iratus a true treat for any ardent fans of the roguelike genre.
Play on the side of evil, embodied by the necromancer Iratus!
Expand and improve your underground lair.
19 types of obedient servants: zombies, vampires, skeletons, mummies, banshees and many more!
Craft minions from the body parts of your conquered enemies.
Advanced combat system: to win you need to know both the strengths and weaknesses of your troops and enemies.
Iratus can kill his enemies not only by magic or claw but also by draining their sanity!
Each minion has six unique abilities for a total of nearly one-hundred abilities for you to command.
Four talent trees that alter the way you play: Alchemy, Magic, Ire and Destruction.
Roguelike elements: minions that die are gone for good and the game saves automatically, making each choice irreversible.
Detailed 2D graphics and a gloomy atmosphere of dark fantasy.
Various difficulty levels, satisfying every type of player from novice to hardcore.
Iratus himself is voiced by the voice-acting legend Stefan Weyte, famous for his performance as Caleb in the cult game series "Blood"!
Unity analytics, blatant cheating on final boss fight, and lack of optimization make for an extremely frustrating experience. My first thought was how incredibly slow this game is. It's like trying to watch baseball on TV. You can crank the game speed to 5X and disable Iratus' and minions' comments to speed things along, but I still had random graphical difficulties where the frame rates dropped to 3-5 fps. My RTX 3080 has had zero difficulties with any other game so, it's obviously an issue with this title on Linux. I wouldn't recommend this title, won't buy anything else from this Russian studio, and if it hadn't been free, I'd have demanded a refund.
the amount of information in the ui is objectively not good. keywords etc not shown in tooltips. the 'codex' is a joke, it's just the popup pages from tutorial. can't even find stun mechanic or how much dmg is crit or how spell cd works listed anywhere.
game is too easy and if you're good at thinking through your choices seems prettty shallow. you're supposed to bench your roster to heal but there was barely any need of that at least for the first 2 floors. and since combat was easily manageable, the obvious choice was to spend level ups on income/investment to snowball later on. First playthrough in the first floor (/5), I've already unlocked all the income boosting perks and buildings I can get (rest are unlocked thru achievements style things).
overall the game is really full of figuring out the dominant/near dominant strategies for each situations and choices then repeating it over and over e.g. this monster is best built this way, or this move is rarely ever worth it. instead of making hard decisions based on circumstances.
For a budget title that piggybacks off a better game. Fortunately they did a giveaway, so I had some fun with it.
I like how it looks. The premise and the setting is cool. The audio is nowhere near as good as Darkest Dungeon. The narrator is more repetitive and cringe with fewer lines. There's a basic spell that makes him sing about "bony weather" that I must have heard more than everything else combined.
I checked the game out since it was free, and I would have stopped playing after a couple of hours because of rogue-lite progression. The thing is, they must not have balanced the game very well because I began to steamroll on my first try around halfway through level 2. I'm in level 4 of 5 and I am not going to lose. My team is wraith, werewolf, skeleton, mummy.
That's not normal for a rogue-lite, typically you die to lack of game knowledge and RNG. So that's going to be close to 15 hours for a playthrough which is as long as it could be without overstaying its welcome.
One thing I like is the skill trees for you, Iratus the necromancer, and how you have a mana pool and spells so it feels like you're fighting alongside your minions. But there's not much else to say about it unfortunately. The overll design of the gameplay systems is shallow and not carefully balanced. It's a budget title. The best thing about it is the concept and how the monsters look.
I played this game and beat it on my 2nd try on the 2nd hardest mode (hardest mode is locked at start). The game claims to be hardcore and difficult to beat, which it is not so it got knocked down a star. Once you realize that sanity attacks are kind of meh and focus mostly on damage instead its pretty easy. A lot of the monsters are basically time locked for some reason, but that doesn't matter because the base monsters; wearwolves, skeleton, banshee and zombie are all you need except for the buildings... You'll be swimming in diggers souls at the end of the game because so many monsters are locked. I had a lot of AFK time on this game, but I'd say i probably spent 6 to 8 hours to beat it so it has some decent playtime even if you find it not that hard and I still had a fun time playing it.
Pleasant graphics, will run on a toaster. The voice actor for Iratus is amazing, his lines are fun.
Management side is okay, killing opponents with heart attacks just doesn't get old.
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