Your attacks can target health or sanity, and sometimes, it’s better to drive a foe insane than it is to whittle down their health. Yes, you are a Necromancer, so of course you use the body parts of your fallen enemies to create new soldiers, like tough skeletons and dark knights, horrific banshees and wraiths that specialize in stressing out the foes (and if they go insane, they can turn on their friends … or die from shock). As you level up and hit goals, you open up new creatures you can stick together. Your creatures each have a abilities that you can level up, and some of their powers depend on their position in the party (just like with Darkest Dungeon). You have a party of four creatures, and you build up your graveyard instead of a town, repairing structures as you do your house in Red Hook’s seminal game. Its team members have worked on games such as Disciples (a turn-based strategy-RPG that takes inspiration from Heroes of Might and Magic). Iratus is from Darkest Dungeon from Unfrozen, an indie studio from Saint Petersburg, and Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment is publishing it. Get used to losing, because you’re going to have a difficult time until you build up your roster and repository of body parts.

I’ve been playing it for a bit, and I’ll tell you this: It’s hard.

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