Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Unfrozen · 2020 · RPG, Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based Combat, Roguelike
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About Iratus: Lord of the Dead
✦ AI summary
Command an army of undead minions crafted from your enemies' body parts as the necromancer Iratus, building and strategically upgrading your underground lair while battling surface dwellers in tactical turn-based combat. With 19 distinct unit types, nearly 100 abilities, and roguelike permanence, every decision shapes your path to dark supremacy.
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"!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This definitely has some things going for it, but it didn't click for me. There's a clear influence from [i]Darkest Dungeon[/i] here, a game I love, but the structural changes here (like a [i]Slay the Spire[/i]-style map) just really didn't grab me, and I think the unit design is less inspired as well. I feel like the game is in an awkward midpoint of design where I wish it either embraced the roguelike structure more (making your units much more disposable, having each run very different, etc), or gave it up entirely and became more of a tactics RPG (where you develop your units, make more straightforward progress, etc). As it is, the prospect of starting another run just felt tedious to me.4 found this helpful
(-) The game is very simplistic overall. (-) The roster of playable minions is fairly limited. (-) There's not much content. The game is quite short and can be finished pretty quickly. (-) There are only two upgrade paths, which doesn't give you much reason to replay the game. Once you've finished it, you've pretty much seen everything. (+) On the other hand, the game's simplicity works in its favor. If you've never played this kind of game before, it's a good introduction to the genre. Darkest Dungeon is far more challenging. Even though this review is mostly negative, I'd still recommend playing it once. It's not a bad game - it just doesn't have much staying power. 5/10.
eh, decent game, fun
Very similiar to Darkest Dungeon, altough it doesn't have the dungeon crawling experience and lacks the unpredictability what I think makes DD the best in category. The battles feel way less matter of a skill than the preparation which is fine for some time, but after a while it became repetative to me since you spend most of the time in battles. I would say 80% of thinking and strategizing in this game is preparing in the lobby, gaining abilities, building, getting the right crew together and only 20% is the battle. Not a bad game, but playing this game after darkest dungeon, it feels like a downgrade. To new users I would suggest to play iratus on Good Always Wins (hardest you can choose first). More pain felt too easy to me, altough I only reached floor 3 but due to repetativeness I gave up on the game.
Goodish game, some issues here or there but worth a play especially if you can get it on sale.
good
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