The Unliving

The Unliving

Released Oct 2023

Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.

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Evaluation

The Unliving launched into Steam Early Access in November 2022 and received a series of substantial updates during that period, including the Crucible of Calling system (December 2022), the Rage of the Dead update (March 2023), and the Apex Necromancy update (June 2023). On October 26, 2023, the developer released version 1.0, which they explicitly described as the game's "full release" — completing the Necromancer's story with a final boss battle, new spells, and additional narrative content. The 1.0 launch post describes the new content as "final spells" and frames the game's story as reaching its conclusion. Since the 1.0 launch, the only developer communication has been a security patch on October 4, 2025, addressing a Unity engine vulnerability — a routine maintenance update with no indication of planned new content. Both DLC items (the Original Soundtrack and Digital Artbook) were released back in November 2022 and are purely supplemental. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no roadmap pointing to additional updates. The game launched as a complete product on October 26, 2023, and the developer has not communicated any plans to expand it further.
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Version 1.0 released as the game's full launch, completing the Necromancer's story with a final boss, new spells described as 'final spells,' and additional narrative content. Developer explicitly marks this as the game's full release out of Early Access.
news post · Oct 26, 2023 source development ending
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Developer devlog summarizing Early Access development and previewing plans for the upcoming 1.0 release. Content promises (final boss, new location, story conclusion) were all subsequently delivered in the 1.0 update on October 26, 2023.
news post · Jun 29, 2023 source content shipped
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Details

Publisher
Team17 Digital
Achievements
69
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

The realm of the living has been corrupted to its core and a storm is coming to change the world order. This storm is you, a mighty Necromancer, a sorcerer who denies death and leads the legions of the dead. Clerics and lords hope to hide behind high walls, but there’s no stronghold to cover them from your wrath. Smite hundreds of those standing in your way and turn them into your tools on the way to a greater purpose.

The Unliving is a dynamic rogue-lite action RPG with strategic elements. Raise the undead, use numerous spells and explore a mystical world, all realised with darkly extravagant pixel-art.

TURN ENEMIES INTO YOUR UNDEAD ARMY

Each fallen foe can be resurrected and added to your army to create unlimited legions of the dead. These re-animated creatures have their own unique abilities, such as the undead Priest whose blessings in life, will now curse your enemies in death.

UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF NECROMANCY

Meet colorful characters - friends and foes alike. Question members of your own necromantic cult, force answers out of your enemies and even dialogue your own phylacterium - to gather the lost memories of the Necromancer piece by piece and reveal the nature of his immortality. Who knows, maybe you also find out the grim truth about the supreme hierarchies of the Church.

CRUSH EVERYONE IN YOUR WAY

Only some of the living are helpless victims, the rest can retaliate against your forces. They hold the line, move in large groups and wield powerful abilities too. They cherish their lives and will not fall easily, so unleash hell as the Undead Lord to bring them to their knees.

CONQUER UNCHARTED LANDS

The world is randomly generated for each run and is richly populated with an array of creatures, artefacts, secret rooms and deadly traps. Each part of the world is occupied by a variety of living inhabitants - invade villages and slay feeble peasants to reinforce your army or engage in a desperate fight to the death in the swamps against formidable foes.

BATTLE EPIC BOSSES

The powerful creatures of this shadowy world will do all they can to stop you. Each boss has a unique fighting style and set of abilities, meaning deftness in combat and strategic thinking will be crucial in emerging victorious from these gruelling encounters

DIE AND RISE AGAIN

Ability to deny death itself is the greatest secret of the Necromancer. Another mortal strike is merely a setback for him. Take a lesson from your death and don’t let your enemies catch you the same way twice.

Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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