Auto Necrochess
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After struggling to live with no job, a girl becomes a necromancer and tries to overthrow the King.
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A mixture of auto battler and strategy game, this is a project that i started for last year's halloween! Damn, i think i am not good at setting deadlines for myself!
Please report any bugs, if seen! It shouldn't have any, but who knows.
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CONTROLS: (though the game is designed to be played entirely with a mouse)
R- Roll
SPACEBAR - Attack / Pause Battle
S (or click and hold thing)- Sell chosen thing.
F- Go to fullscreen (only on downloaded version)
You can also FREEZE something by clicking on it twice!
NOTES:
-Books need to be at the right of the lane to be able to be used.
-Merging units is important!
-The king gets slowly stronger, so try to rush him or go slow and become strong enough!
-Windows defender might say it's a virus. Sorry, it's a bad side effect of using this really old version of gamemaker. If you don't trust me, just play the HTML5 version! <3
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COMMENT IF YOU WIN!!! It should be a bit hard, but not that much!! Who is up to the challenge? (;
CREDITS:
Code and art by Stopsignal
Music by Juanba
Newgrounds Gamemaker API
Freesound.org -grab sound by bob1
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Development log
- Small update and FANART WOOFeb 22, 2024
- Future Expansion ideas!Feb 17, 2024
- Android test version up!Feb 16, 2024
- FULLSCREEN update!Feb 15, 2024
- FAST FORWARD (and succubus) UPDATE!Feb 12, 2024
- Update FixesFeb 09, 2024
- Update! (randomness is random now sry)Feb 08, 2024
- Another mini update, still need to write a thorough changelog!Nov 06, 2023
Comments
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If Dark Souls had RNG. GAAHHHH
10/10, great game.
'You rationally conclude that necromancy is the only way to overthrow the establishment'
Hey Stopsignal, hope youre doing pretty well ma dude, i would like to ask you to put a retreat button or a restart if we feel we are about to lose the run or just didnt liked how the store keeps throwing units we will not use.
There is one in the shop!! You gotta hold it though!
oh, sorry for not recgonizing it, i totally forgot about it. any thougths for future updates?
I just realized that the kolbod is a reference to one of their other games
Love the game. It's difficult. on third day playing and just now got to the king. frustrating. It would be so nice to be able to toggle on and off the sound.
Seguro no me entenderás pero es un exelente juego con una rejugabilidad muy buena y sobre todo desafían me encanto solo me gustaría ver cómo sería la versión final ah y una cosa si quieres poner algo seria que pudieras cambiar los monstruos comprables
cute game and i love the concept!!!
Is it me, or is max level summoner and bard combo a bit op?
Did it! mid-game is really rough before you get your high HP tanks but it's still very fun regardless
really cool game! I thought it was fairly simple to pick up, fun art style, and strategic. Very engaging!
Full health in 9 rounds run, pretty challenging!
Pretty cool game!
Only played one time part way through. It is pretty rough not being able to change the order of units once you place them, but can see how that makes it a big part of the strategy once you know what kind of units will be available.
At certain times it seems a bit unclear on what to click on or what you can click on. Took a bit to realize that you could upgrade units. Also, never really understood the freeze and the interactions when clicking on the units to buy.
you can swap their place! by clicking on the tomb and clicking on another in the shop phase.
Also, the freeze is so the unit in the shop stays there after rerolling or after a turn!
anyways, I am planning on making a few of these things about more clear, hahaha, as yeah, they can be quite tricky, especially because some of the mechanics are very gente related (games like super auto pets, auto battlers in general)
thanks!!! (:
Thanks for those tips! I was planning on giving it another go later so they will help!
The three challenge
cuando lo portan para sistemas operativos linux? se agradecería por favor considerarlo
When do you port it for Linux operating systems? Please consider
I really love this. I keep playing it, and even installed it on Android. I'd like to see those "coming soon" things happening, and maybe some new units. I think the Wizard unit could use rebalancing, because letting the units advance to be able to cast another spell or else the unit's special ability is just wasted is just bad. It makes spells worse.
One bug that makes the mobile version much harder to use is that it doesn't full-screen properly, and obviously there's no windowed mode on phones. Buttons at the bottom get cut off as a result. Something to fix before the full final release that I hope is coming! (Yeah, I know, looking at the dates. I can still hope.)
Great work and addictive gameplay.
Thanks a lot, enchainrain!! Hey, I'm still working on it! just life and jobs get in the way, hahaha
sometimes I post progress on twitter
could you send an screenshot of the scaling problem?
also phone specs, and its display size, thanks!
This game would do amazing on mobile. I could pay for full game at least 5-10$
Great game.
Played it multiple times over the past few days.
In the beginning I was consistently losing but always got close enough to try again.
Now I am consistently winning.
Impressive balancing
Piece of art
That was actually super nice ... well done indeed
this is so creative
I finally did it! Zero damage run
This game is like soooo nice
some balance changes and it would be fire
Great game, but it really needs a mute button.
I'm stuck Anyone have any advice on how to beat it?
BARDS
Bards, summoners, rats and skulls.
same
Strategies to try for different row compositions:
Summon units:
Bards, Rockers, and then any combination of Ratling / Summoner / Flying Skulls. Give your skulls a funny bone. Summon unit builds are the strongest in this game.
Bulldozer builds:
Using a Pigman, fully-upgraded Excalibur or Sticky, or a Big Boned- buff them up with everything possible. Shields, milk, milkmen, nurses, farmers and blacksmiths. A single juiced up unit can wipe out entire rows and take on the king 1-on-1 if you buff them up enough.
Viking train:
Viking in front! Assassin behind viking! Nurse behind Assassin! Upgrade them all and they will tear through everything. Bonus points for milkman in front or a stoner / kobold behind. Viking benefits from farmer.
And the most important GENERAL tip of them all:
FULLY UPGRADE UNITS!
Early game especially! So easy to get a fully upgraded stoner, skeleton, viking, milkman or flying skull! And these can carry you for the rest of the run! More importantly they will immediately allow you access to another higher-power unit right off the bat that can totally change and inform how you approach the rest of the round.
THANK YOU SO MUCH I MANAGED TO BEAT IT WITH THE RATS BUFFED UP AND LEVELED UP AND THE HEART GIRL THAT SWITCHED ENEMYS TO ALLIES AND THE SUMMONERS ARE SO FUN INCLUDING THE SPELL SUMMON LV 3 SAVED ME SOOO MANY TIMES. THANKS AGAIN... :)
quick question, is it possible to mod this game?
Could you add spells that stun enemies for a few turns? Or maybe units that can't move but have high stats for defending? Then there would be a good build for stalling the enemy, still a good game though :)
Steam version ever? The game is great, would love achievements and the like :-)
Wonderful game! Really makes you think about your decisions. I love spells, and summoning units.
Some things could use a bit better explanation.. I was confused quite a bit and had to figure things out through trial and error.
In the end it's a little too difficult a game for me. Maybe if I got a little reward every time I died? With better rewards for dying closer to the King? Like maybe an extra gold or a starting unit.
very good, very frustrating. i would not be a good imperial warlord
Hi. I have been playing this game almost nonstop for the last week.
At first I couldn't beat it at all.
Then I managed to get the "okay" ending where you die but take out the king, finally.
After another day, I beat the game and got the good ending. I kept playing it for a week. Actually, it might be closer to two now. I am addicted to this game.
I play it whenever I'm bored. I have stayed up to like, 3 or 4AM playing this game on 3 different occasions.
I have beaten it upwards of 25 times- usually alive, though I have completed it dead 3 or 4 times as well.
Today, just now, not even 5 minutes ago- I finally completed my self-imposed challenge; Beating the game without losing a single heart of damage. A level 3 pigman with a shield and a farmer in front of it really does solve all a man's problems. I also only discovered yesterday that spells even GOT to level 3... level 3 bat curse singlehandedly made me understand why spells are worth it; Gotta say, they're underwhelming when not fully upgraded.
I have one more self-imposed challenge to complete; I want to see the level 3 versions of every single unit. I have already seen the vast majority of them. I think all I need now is to get a level 3 rocker, level 3 farmer, and level 3 blacksmith. Oh, and level 3 divine protection spell.
I have created an itch.io account today, for the sole purpose of leaving this comment. I never had one before now. But you need to know this. You must hear my cry:
MAKE MORE NECROCHESS!!!!!!!!!!
Very clever and fun game! Just a couple things that would dramatically improve the QOL would be make the hover tooltip collision a lot bigger. You have to mouse over the VERY center of a shop item to get the pop up right now and it's a little finnicky. Another thing is I think just get rid of the tombstones. You instinctively want to hover and click on the units since that's what you clicked to buy them but you have to hover and click on the tombstones once they're on the field. The tombstones just don't feel quite as intuitive and I don't think they really add anything. One last thing I'd recommend is making the cost of things apparent on the units/spells in the shop so you don't have to hover and glance up to your coins to see how much it costs. It's much easier to make decisions if you can see all the necessary info in one place.
another QoL tip, make clicking on a book automatically pause the game, no need for that to be an extra step
very fun game! bard strategy is really op!
when will the new decks and levels be released.
Took me a bit to figure out the general strategy, but I eventually won! Then I won two more times. Very fun game, reminds me a lot of when Super Auto Pets had just come out. :3
Defeated the king! Woo!
This is a lovely game. Cute style, good mechanics (there's actually some strategy balancing early game vs late game). Enjoyed greatly
Level 3 curse book and level 3 summoner book combo pretty well when you dont know if your lane will survive or you are agaisnt high health enemies and you lack sucubus.
If you are lucky with mausoleum you have an almost secure win.Lastly you pretty much can ignore the princes if you have more than 2 health or if you know you can kill the king before they manage to get to the last tile.
I think I found a bug in android, the screen is cut off at the bottom