NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION

Adventure· Roguelike· Souls-like· Action Roguelike

Released Jul 2016

NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.

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All announced content has been released

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All announced content has been released

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Evaluation

NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION launched on July 12, 2016. Following a wave of critical feedback, Harebrained Schemes committed on July 20, 2016 to a series of free improvements, laying out a short-to-long-term roadmap of new enemies, weapons, environments, and a second playable character. They delivered on all of these commitments: Update 1.03 (August 2, 2016) and Update 1.04 (August 16, 2016) added new content and balance improvements, and the NECROPOLIS BRUTAL EDITION update (Version 1.1, September 6, 2016) delivered the full slate of promised content — The Brute character, The Black Forest environment, new enemies, weapons, traps, and more. A final hotfix (1.1.1, September 16, 2016) addressed bugs introduced by 1.1. The store description explicitly markets this as "the definitive NECROPOLIS experience," and no further content was announced or delivered after September 16, 2016. All commitments from the July 2016 roadmap were fulfilled by the 1.1 release. There has been no developer communication of any kind since September 16, 2016, and no new content has been promised or hinted at. The game launched as a complete product and has remained so since that final hotfix.

Evidence

Version 1.1 (Brutal Edition) delivered all long-term roadmap commitments: The Brute character, The Black Forest environment, new enemies, weapons, traps, and more. Developer described this as the culmination of their ongoing improvement work.

news post · Sep 6, 2016 source development ending

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Developer announced a free improvement roadmap covering short-, mid-, and long-term content additions including new enemies, weapons, environments, The Black Forest, and The Brute character

news post · Jul 20, 2016 source content planned

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Details

Developer

Harebrained Schemes

Publisher

Paradox Interactive

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

Souls-like Action Roguelike Adventure Roguelike Action Dungeon Crawler Roguelite Indie Difficult Procedural Generation Perma Death Third Person Hack and Slash RPG Great Soundtrack

About this game

NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.

The BRUTAL EDITION is the definitive NECROPOLIS experience. HERE’S WHAT’S NEW:

The Brute - a formidable new player character
The Black Forest - a completely new wintry outdoor biome to explore
Deadly new enemies and improved AI behaviors
Greatly expanded environmental variety, including new traps and gameplay
Clearer descriptions for all items in the game, including weapons, armor, recipes, potions, and magical codexes
Improved game balance and loot economy
New weapons, armor, potions, scrolls, and more!

NECROPOLIS combines third-person action with Rogue-lite dungeon-delving for a game that’s fast-paced and addictive, yet diabolically hardcore. Adventure alone, or with up to 3 friends in a magical deathtrap that reconstructs itself each time you play. Craft, equip, explore, and fight to stay alive as you delve deeper and face ever-greater threats in the twisting halls and endless chasms of the NECROPOLIS. Have no doubt, you’re going to die - often! - but you’ll improve your combat skills, available upgrades, and dungeon know-how with every playthrough, bringing you one step closer to the exit. (Warning: “Just one more time” mindset can be addicting.)

IN NECROPOLIS, DEATH IS...

...PERMANENT. Game Over? Jump right back in with a new adventurer and try again!
...DIFFERENT EVERY TIME. A new procedurally-generated dungeon with every death.
...BETTER WITH FRIENDS. Drop-in / drop-out CO-OP multiplayer for up to 4 players!
...MONSTROUS. Gemeaters, Changelings, Hoardmen, and more - they exist to kill you.
...NOT WITHOUT PERKS. Each new dungeon is littered with powerful weapons, armor, and upgrades to wield against your foes. (And there’s crafting, too!)
...UNAVOIDABLE. But don’t worry, this NEXT playthrough is totally the one. We’ve got a good feeling about it.