Darkest Dungeon type game.

I enjoyed it more than Darkest Dungeon.

The basic premise of the game -- controlling a necromancer who raises an undead army in an attempt to take over the mortal world -- is creative and interesting. The use of mechanics and the aesthetic from Darkest Dungeon isn't a bad touch, either. But this game is so inferior to the game from which it draws so much of its influence.

The core problem is that the game is a Roguelike in which a single run takes far too many hours. The progression and meta progression feel agonizingly slow compared to other games in the genre. Darkest Dungeon was a foremost a dungeon crawler, and in the standard game mode, even if you had all your adventurers die, you could always recruit more and start building up their exp and resources from scratch. (The highest difficulty did introduce a death limit that altered this, but you would presumably not start out on that difficulty.) That's not how it works here: Iratus has to use resources to craft his undead creations, and if everyone dies and you have too few resources remaining, that's the end of the line. That would be fine, except that the runs in this game are many hours long. Most roguelikes aim for a single run to take 30 minutes to 1 hour (if you are successful).

Encounters are also very repetitive, and a lot of upgrades are locked behind cryptic metaprogression. Many upgrades at your base require specific units to construct, and you have to unlock the units to build by doing various things. Some are obvious (e.g., beat any two bosses), but others are not, and the whole concept that I can't upgrade my base in my first run beyond a certain point feels like a BS progress blocker like that found in mobile games -- an artificial way to extent the game length.

I like the concept that underlies this game, but there are too many better games in this genre for me to recommend this one. The $30 price tag is a joke, though it is often on sale at 70-90% off. On a deep discount, it's not the worst purchase, and I am sure this game will strike some as a worthwhile experience. But I have played too many games in the roguelike genre over the years, and this one is just average.