The Necromancer's Tale Is the Most I've Enjoyed Creating an RPG Character in a While, and No I Don't Mean the Walking Corpses

The Necromancer's Tale is the most I've enjoyed creating an RPG character in a while, and no I don't mean the walking corpses

I've only dipped my distal index fingerbone in The Necromancer's Tale, a just-released historical fantasy tactics RPG from Psychic Software, but I can at least report back that the character creator is a gentle joy, to the point that I was disappointed to reach the end of it. True to the promise/threat of "400,000 words of hand-written narrative and lore", it's a hearty choose-your-own-adventure prologue that follows the protagonist's infancy an…

The Necromancer’s Tale – PC Review

The Necromancer’s Tale is a story-rich, top-down RPG from Psychic Software that transports players to an alternate 18th-century Europe. You assume the role of a minor noble who obtains a forbidden spellbook, setting you on a path of occult power and vengeance across an alternative-history Kingdom near Venice and the Adriatic Sea. This is a […]