I Wanna Be a Necromancer

Often, for me, the metric all necromancers are measured by. Diablo II has a satisfying number of minions and doesn't water down the feel with nonthematic spells.

A vampire-survivors-alike, in which you raise boney minions. Solid take. Really fun, with diverse minion types.

Pretty solid undead horde simulator. You can have a massive army of undead chickens!

Similar to Necrosmith 1, but you can make bigger titans.
I found the game gave you more reason to use "intermediate" parts rather than skip straight to robots than 1 did. Has a lot of similar problems and strengths as 1.

Gather body parts and mash them together into undead horrors! Then set them free to terrorize the countryside!
This one is pretty mindless fun, and the creations are quite silly. Giving a giant skeleton orc teeny tiny legs, or a tiny zombie massive beefy arms... the possibilities are diverse.

...You do end up mostly just building robots in the end, though.

Little indie game that nails the ability to truly have an army. A little clunky. Itches the urge to have as many skeleton friends as possible very well.

A different take on necromancy, instead of violence, you use your skeletal minions to serve food to customers! (And quietly poison a few customers to make food and skeletons...!)

Wasn't expecting this game to have a necromancer class at all, was a fun treat! It plays well, too, letting you have a decent number of minions for the type of game it is, and fitting into the game seamlessly.

Has a solid necromancer class foundation, but because the game is inherently about mixing all of the talent trees together, you eventually become a mutant mess.
Which is fun in its own right, but to play ideally you do kind of just become some flavour of "summoner" rather than pure necromancer.

Decent necromancer pick, but definitely diluted.

A rather silly and clunky indie game where you raise minions to party with you.

Despite being a game *about* a necromancer, Iratus has never felt like much of one to me! Perhaps it's the rippling muscles owo. The gameplay is not exactly the feel I'm generally wanting when I think "necromancer," but the themeing of piecing together corpses isn't bad.

Diablo III threw in a necromancer class as a DLC after it'd been out for 5 years. I'm not a big fan of D3, but I can't help but feel it doesn't capture the feel very well. Don't get me wrong, this class is my favourite of the bunch, but it's still D3. Also, the skeletons are ugly as sin, which is terrible!

Rather simplistic and unfinished itch game, it honestly feels more like the type of gameplay where you are cells swallowing smaller cells to grow larger than any kind of necro feel.