Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a dark fantasy-style turn-based tactical roguelike RPG. You will stand by the dark side and help necromancer Iratus escape from the dungeon he was imprisoned centuries ago. As a true necromancer, Iratus dislikes using weapons by himself and prefers to destroy his enemies with obedient minions such as skeletons, mummies, and vampires.

Primarily, Darkest Dungeon and Dungeon Keeper. The first one inspired us to make a tactical system, and the second one gave us the idea to create a game where the main character is the Lord of Darkness. We are also influenced by Slay the Spire and Disciples 2.

The protagonist was influenced by Vrubel's "The Demon Seated". In addition, our art lead took inspiration from Lovecraft's works, HoMM (especially 5) and Dungeon Keeper.

In short, we’re striving to evolve the most advantageous points of Darkest Dungeon’s gameplay and removing monotonous systems as much as we can. The main focus is a variety of tactical possibilities with a comprehensive economic system, based on Iratus’ abilities and minion creation.

By circumstance, Iratus turned his lair into a tactical operation base. Iratus creates minions from the body parts of his deceased enemies: bones into a skeleton, flesh into a zombie, rags and ectoplasm into a banshee etc. Also, there are many different ways to use talents, artifacts, minion items, alchemy, and cemetery buildings. These are determined by the player’s chosen style of gameplay.

Iratus’s fighting system offers a large variety of tactical skills and prowess. A crude attack is unlikely to succeed, so setting up each battle should be strategic. Something as simple as where a minion moves during an encounter can be the key to victory. Alongside a minion’s abilities, the player can also use the spells of Iratus.

We’re using Unity as our engine, thanks to its popularity and adaptability. Character animation for Iratus is created with Spine Professional.

Currently, Iratus was released for Windows, Mac, and Linux both on Steam, GOG and EGS.

For now, the game interfaces and text are translated into English, French, Deutch, Russian, Spain, Korean, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese, Polish and Turkish. Iratus himself speaks English (Stephan Weyte), French, Deutch, Russian and Chinese.

Founded in 2016, all we ever wanted was to create the type of games we love, not hone a corporate structure. We work from different countries and time zones, share hobbies and memes, and respect each other’s time. This type of work structure favors motivated team members — which is exactly who we need!

No, but we give proper respect to the talent and creativeness of Darkest Dungeon’s developers.

If you’re interested in Iratus, we would be grateful if you could share information about the game with your friends, including sharing it on social networks. You can send your feedback about balance and gameplay to our official Discord server[discord.gg]. We are looking forward to constructive feedback from our community. Your ideas and requests are extremely important to us for making this game as exciting as possible.

We would love to talk to the game press. Just contact us via support@unfrozen.studio, and we will get in touch with you. You can also check the Press kit[unfrozen.studio].