The battles in Iratus: Lord of the Dead is where things really come together. If someone works out well, try to keep them alive or at least remember how you made it. If a specific character build doesn’t work just wait until they get destroyed on battle. One of the pluses about every unit being killable is there is a lot of freedom to experiment.

This gives players the freedom to customize and create the units as they see to best fit their play style, as there are an abundance of different ways to create your army. Each of the disposable heroes has their own skill tree with different buffs, powers and other assorted abilities and skills. The interface for creating these unholy abominations for Iratus’s army made creating and powering up the army units a breeze. The undead strangely have quite the ravenous appetite, as feeding them other discarded organs can increase their power. Organs and other body parts collected when the battlefield is cleaned up can be used in the creation interface to easily assemble new units for Iratus’s army. His recruitment method makes everyone in his force expendable but also limitless in number. As stated above he has an endless supply of obedient soldiers, or at least the potential to create them.

Iratus is not what you would consider a warrior, but someone is going to have to fight his battles for him. The twist is now the player will be controlling the evil necromancer to create their own frankenforces to thwart glory-seeking adventurers. This is the approach used by the titular necromancer of Iratus: Lord of the Dead, a roguelike turn-based strategy game that isn’t afraid to wear the heart it harvested from Darkest Dungeon on its sleeve. This could be one of the reasons why necromancy is a common vocational skill among them instead of actually having to seek out like minions you can just kill a few people, harvest their body parts and build your own army. One of the problems with being an evil overlord is good help can be so difficult to find.

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