Right Click to Necromance for Windows

Keep your undead army growing

Right Click to Necromance is a free action video game wherein you can resurrect your very own undead army. Developed by Juicy Beast, this 2D indie game is a hack-n-slash real-time strategy game that features controlling an army in a top-down view. 

Similar to Wild Tamer, Right Click to Necromance is all about directing numerous units as one body. It was made for the Indie Speed Run 2015 game jam in under 48 hours, though, so it doesn’t have much else going for it. It could use more features, such as a settings menu to adjust your graphical performance.

What is Right Click to Necromance?

In Right Click to Necromance, you play as a necromancer general who can resurrect fallen enemy soldiers to add to your army. Your goal is to grow this army by defeating other squadrons and integrating their corpses among your units. When you first start off, you’re immediately placed on a map with enemies roaming about. You have five soldiers at first and you must fight against enemy groups whose numbers are lower than five in order to beat them. Otherwise, you’ll be the one who’s killed.

The controls are pretty simple since they tend to flash on the screen for your convenience. You have to press and hold the left mouse button and drag it in the direction you want to move your army. When it collides with an enemy group, they automatically battle. Once you’ve defeated them, you must right-click in order to “consume” them. You need to keep doing this in order to become powerful enough to defeat the solo boss enemies—who are obvious in how much bigger their character sprites are.

They don’t stay dead for long

However, for all its ease in controls, the game can be unfairly difficult in a number of ways—and many of them aren’t good. For one, the map you spawn in is just teeming with enemies who keep going in random directions. The area is small and they tend to group up with another team, adding to their numbers—and making it hard to you to approach. Sometimes, several of them collide together and form an army much more powerful than yours even during the first few seconds of your playthrough.

The sheer number of enemies means that they’ll keep growing so you have something to challenge—and generating all of this can get your PC struggling to run. Additionally, there are hardly any settings to help you mitigate it. You can only start another round or exit the game entirely. It would have been nice to be able to set a difficulty level in Right Click to Necromance or limit to the spawn rate of enemies so that your game won’t crash.

Has a lot of potential

All in all, Right Click to Necromance is a great little RTS game that operates on the mechanics of being a necromancer with a lot of potential recruits. While the game itself feels unfinished, it still provides solid gameplay that challenges you to keep trying to see how far you can go with your ragtag group of soldiers. Just take note that it has performance issues sometimes.