Necrosmith

Too simple and not enough player control. I like the visuals, but the entire game is a frustrating loop. It's not an RTS, at least not a traditional type. You can only have 15 units total and they will run around automatically killing, destroying enemy lairs and looting. Sounds good on paper, but in practice they run away from your base and leave it defenseless and kite enemies through your base so it still takes damage. The player controls what units they craft, spells cast and, optionally, one unit at a time. The issue is the spells have a painfully long CD and manual control is full manual. You have to use the WASD keys to move the unit which means you can't pay attention to the rest of the map. The spells can be upgraded using gold to increase effect and reduce CD, but that ends up actually being the main gameplay loop. Start a run, lose, upgrade something (it can take 2-3 runs to upgrade a single spell), start again, make a bit more money, die, repeat. I think the limit of 15 units is the biggest issue. I found myself having to destroy my own units just to create new ones to defend my base.

All progress is lost each time. ):

Great game, great value. Had some little issues/annoyanced on release but the devs have workd hard letting out patches since release to fix it up. Now a nice little stratergy/progression/collection game. That is how development is done. Only minors issue, please release patch notes on gog. Thanks.

I gotta feeling that this strategist-like rougelike is completely brand new in this genre. As a necromant - sorry, necrosmith! - you gather parts of bodies on the map to make your servants. Every map is created randomly and every is very hard to complete - there is a bulk of enemies ready to destroy your base. It provides short and fast-paced levels - each time it takes you about fifteen to fourty five minute to die. Lot of fun. There are some drawback, though. Levels are too random even for the standards of rougelikes. It depends on first minute of the level whether there are even parts of bodies to create an early army to collect further resources. What is more, the progress is kinda too slow. After every level the gamer can use resources to upgrade the power of spells or the undead in general. Although every one particular upgrade is very expensive, you can hardly feel the effect during further gameplay. All in all, the quality versus price ratio is absolutely fantastic!

While a bit short for a Rogue-lite , I must say for the price and what it offer Im 100% satisfied. Took me around 11hours to *finish* the main questline and got around 90% of the achievements just by playing normally. The game start very passive with basic skeletons parts but quickly turn into a survival situation due to the massive amount of enemies rushing your base. You will need to build the strongest undead from the more unique creatures. My strategy was to keep 1/3 of them as base defenders and the 2/3 as explorers. You can take direct control of your undead,even thought you will mostly be looking at your main base to make sure it survive the timer. You get gold during each game that can be spend between them to buy upgrades and get a little bit of dialogue. While the story is very simple and barely there, I liked the ending and it gave a satisfying conclusion. I guess if I could nitpick something other then the short side of the game , it would be limited music. A bit more tracks would certainly help because after a few hours I just put my own music since the tracks and sound effects do get repetitive. Otherwise, totally recommended and I hope the devs keep adding more *end game* content in the near future !