Necromancer for a Week

Necromancer for a Week is a monster-taming game focused on battling and building team combinations rather than grinding levels. Each run takes about an hour. You choose a starting Monster, recruit others along the way and build a two-Monster team to fight through each night and return to the Necromancer’s Citadel.

Build your team

Every Monster has its own movepool and playstyle. Tombstones let you reanimate Monsters and add them to your roster, giving you more options for your team. Completing a run unlocks a random Monster as a potential Starter, and some Monsters become available only after you complete specific challenges.

Battle with Moves

You start each turn with 3 Action Points (AP). Every Move costs AP, and you can use Moves from either Monster on your team, or both. Chaining Moves together lets you create combos to damage enemies. The game emphasizes finding powerful combinations between Monsters over providing a gruelling challenge.

Higher difficulties limit which Moves you can duplicate and automatically select a Monster for you in each Battle, so you must work out a team combination that can win.

Return to the Citadel

Each night, your main objective is to reach the Necromancer’s Citadel in the middle of the map. On the way, you can encounter Monsters to reanimate, powerful Move Tomes, passives and unique enemies. Your Monsters do not heal until you return to the Citadel at the end of the night, so you need to rotate your team and may have to make difficult sacrifices.

Unlock Monsters

Some Monsters appear in a run only after you complete challenges. Examples include:

• Use 9 or more Moves in one turn.
• Apply 10 or more Cursed to a single Enemy.
• Use the same Offensive Move 4 or more times in one turn.
• Win a Battle without using Strategic Moves.
• Win a Battle in 2 turns or less.
• Deal 99 or more Damage in a single hit.

There are many more challenges.