
The game was featured at PAX 2015, where it was named Destructoid's Editor's Choice winner. These abilities range from higher jump, to higher money and item drop rates.Īs of the latest update, there are two playable adventurer classes: the Blackguard (speed), and the Brute (strength). These can be applied at the end of each level, before descending to the next.

The collectible books ("codexes") allow certain equipped effects on the player character. The player can have only one active save file. There are certain cosmetic items that can be purchased with in-game currency on various levels, but these can only be applied to the player character at the creation of a new save file. Īs in most "rogue-lite" games, death results in a permanent loss of items and progress, and requires the player to begin a new save file. Items such as potion ingredients and books are collectible.

Combat consists of timed attacks and attack patterns, relying heavily on movement and placement of the player character. Abraxis' servant, the Brazen Head, assists in shaping the environments and assigning tasks, which both constantly change. Enemies include dead adventurers, wild animals, and abandoned machinery. Players are able to alter parts of the world by solving puzzles. The game is set in a labyrinth in an abstract dimension and features moving platforms and hidden treasure. Necropolis is a third person action role-playing game. The player takes on the role of various adventurers who have arrived at this strange, otherworldly Necropolis with unknown motivations-loot, glory, and exile all give way to the need for escape. The game's plot involves an archmage named Abraxis and his efforts in a secret underground tomb to practice magic far from civilization. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in July 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in October 2016.

Necropolis is an action role-playing game developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
