Rather than sending in heroes to scout a spooky labyrinth to kill(?) skeletons and bring back loot, in Iratus you send skeletons to kill any heroes you encounter in your spooky labyrinth and rend their corpses into useful supplies. I cannot stress enough how much this game is bizzaro Darkest Dungeon. In Iratus: Lord of the Dead, you take the role of Iratus, a humble bone collector who has been awakened from his eternal imprisonment, now free to resume his conquest of the living by creating an army of undead.

On top of that, there hasn’t been a good necromancer game since Diablo 2. While it is far from complete, with each update Iratus: Lord of the Dead inches closer and closer to being a fantastic homage to Darkest Dungeon. Darkest Dungeon is one of my favorite games, and I will gladly take any spinoff and inject it straight into my veins. For the record, when I say this is a clone of Darkest Dungeon, I don’t mean that as a bad thing.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is an unabashed clone of Darkest Dungeon, the twist being that you now play as the dungeon. Iratus: Lord of the Dead Early Access Review- The Whimsical Tale of a Man and his Bonesįor severe alcohol poisoning, take a shot every time I have to say “ Darkest Dungeon” during this review because this is really the only lens we can view this game through.

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