Preferably offline and not very hardware demanding (I can’t seem to run anything Unreal Engine 4).
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Never actually finished the game, but Overlord was a good game, from what I remember, that focused around managing minions and is from 2007, so I assume isn’t too hardware demanding.
Overlord was so damn cool. Way underrated, I wish they would make another. Sadly it would be the perfect type of game for the nemesis system from shadow of war.
I think there is an overlord 2 they did one sequel before it fell off. But I never played it. Overlord came out in a weird local minima of my video game consumption.
So I know what ‘a weird local minima’ means, but would have never put those words together like that. I like it! My brain just doesn’t think that way. Is it weird for me to ask how you came to that phrase?
It is math brain, it comes from studying mathematics. I also confuse people by talking about projects “converging” which confuse people without a math or physics background.
That’s it, then. Math, while fascinating to me, was never my strong suit.
damn that would rule
I have literally the perfect game for you. It’s called Boneraiser Minions! It’s indie pixel art but it is super fun!
But doctor, I am Pagliacci…
Check out Be My Horde, its another indie necromancy game. It’s in early access but playable and nearing release. Major update coming in May.
I had to scroll so far for this 💔
Torchlight 2, as either an Engineer with mechanical minions or an Outlander with shadowlings.
My brain is cooked I thought you meant the Illumination Minions for a second
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. It’s almost all summoning.
Also, can’t Guild Wars 1 be played offline? The Necromancer in that is all about minioning
GW1 is online only, though the game works well as a solo experience. The minion master in that game is my fav by far.
Its fun having minions that are slowly dying, and seeing how many you can manage to collect before they all croak
it’s also having a 20th anniversary event right now so there’s way more people online than usual, for whatever that’s worth
maybe you’ll find some friendly people to party up and collect minion skills and make a goofy number of minions
Terraria has a summoner role and can run on a toaster
Path of Achra! There is a ton of build variety, and you can summon a screen full of minions. I also love the generated poems at the start, it’s good flavor text.
There is also Rift Wizard 1 and 2, but I had less fun with it.
Sacrifice, if you don’t mind how early-3D-era it is
Obviously different ARPGs like Diablo 2 . Necromancer can have a lot of skellies boning around
Path of Exile (the OG) skeleton summoner is usually extremely good
There needs to be a distinction between a summoner with like 5 strong minions and a summoner with a trash mob of 30+ cannon fodder.
As long as I’m standing back and looking at green healthbars moving around making red healthbars go down I’m happy
Pathfinder WOTR
Lots of different builds for different degrees of minions.
Lich mythic path has raising a tonne of undead built in, but classes like druids are also borderline RTS gameplay with the hordes you can pop out with spontaneous summons.
There’s one called Sea Salt where you summon various Lovecraftian minions of the deep
grim dawn has pseudo-pets plus real pets
it is not very demanding however it does have some slight optimization issues. it also has mod support with more pet classes too
The Chanter class in Pillars of Eternity has a boatload of summons that I loved to just spam.
Also if you stretch the “summoner” definition, I love watching my massive peasant army swarm all over the enemy in Mount and Blade Warband (and usually all die)
