The creator of last year’s cult hit RPG The Necromancer’s Tale is back with The Lich Wars, a storybook RPG that follows 30 years of undead botheration

Psychic Software have actually revealed The Lich Wars, a standalone prequel for their commonly well-known RPG The Necromancer’s Tale. Extensively well-known by me, anyhow. I’m quite large, nowadays– the regional Morrisons keeps doing discount rates on 80-biccy packages of bourbon creams.

I liked The Necromancer’s Tale particularly for how it wove an entire RPG around the narrative characteristics of a single RPG class, with gamers carrying out routines in each chapter to establish their morbid spellcraft, while handling the suspicions of neighboring townsfolk. I likewise actually enjoyed its choose-your-own-adventure beginning. The Lich Wars sort of spins the beginning out into a complete video game.

It’s a partly voiced, branching storybook experience with abilities and statistics, progressing relationships and the possibility of character death (and most likely, undeath, if you wind up meddling burial place wizardry). It casts you as a musketeer in the alt-1700s, fighting through 2 of the titular lich wars in the course of a 30 year profession with 3 primary courses that likewise includes a lot of routine, non-lich wars.

Here’s how the devs characterise the plot: “The Lich Wars explores the early romantic & gothic themes of technological anxiety, unfettered progress, the ethics of war, and the destructive mental infection brought on by dark magic. This is a time at the cusp of rational thought and superstition; science and magic. The world is dark and dangerous. Courtly intrigue collides with black magic even as chemistry emerges from alchemy.”

As concerns the discussion, there are still aspects of the old 3D world in the shape of maps and tabletop, however the bulk of it appears to include hand-drawn illustrations and unfurling paragraphs. “You will visit much of the alt-history kingdom of Rulsthen, near Venice,” the devs assure. “You may also travel across Western Europe as you march to the Great Northern War and the War of Spanish Succession.” Gosh, entire lotta wars. Can we not simply have one huge war – a “World War”if you will?

This seems like a more affordable production than The Necromancer’s Tale, however I believe it’s modification for the much better: toing and froing about the 3D town was my least preferred element of the older video game, much as I delighted in the writing of the setting. Raise the casket cover of the Steam page for more. Release date there is presently none.