Auto Necrochess
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After struggling to live with no job, a girl becomes a necromancer and tries to overthrow the King.
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A mixture of auto battler and strategy game, this is a project that i started for last year's halloween! Damn, i think i am not good at setting deadlines for myself!
Please report any bugs, if seen! It shouldn't have any, but who knows.
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CONTROLS: (though the game is designed to be played entirely with a mouse)
R- Roll
SPACEBAR - Attack / Pause Battle
S (or click and hold thing)- Sell chosen thing.
F- Go to fullscreen (only on downloaded version)
You can also FREEZE something by clicking on it twice!
NOTES:
-Books need to be at the right of the lane to be able to be used.
-Merging units is important!
-The king gets slowly stronger, so try to rush him or go slow and become strong enough!
-Windows defender might say it's a virus. Sorry, it's a bad side effect of using this really old version of gamemaker. If you don't trust me, just play the HTML5 version! <3
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COMMENT IF YOU WIN!!! It should be a bit hard, but not that much!! Who is up to the challenge? (;
CREDITS:
Code and art by Stopsignal
Music by Juanba
Newgrounds Gamemaker API
Freesound.org -grab sound by bob1
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Development log
- been a long time!Oct 26, 2025
- Small update and FANART WOOFeb 22, 2024
- Future Expansion ideas!Feb 17, 2024
- Android test version up!Feb 16, 2024
- FULLSCREEN update!Feb 15, 2024
- FAST FORWARD (and succubus) UPDATE!Feb 12, 2024
- Update FixesFeb 09, 2024
- Update! (randomness is random now sry)Feb 08, 2024
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I cant win im so bad at planning but its really fun to keep trying
what does the viking level 3 do? it just says VIKINGS!!!
i downloaded this a while ago, i cant wait for new updates, just started it up today, its genuinley very fun i wish you the best of luck with developing, i cant pay money on itch sadly, i use gift cards for steam so i cant donate, BUT YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT, emotional, ig
Okay, silly design ideas #365-#367
A lobber who deals 1 damage every turn to whoever is 3 units in front of him (Be it friend of foe). So, not random, and not the front of the row, but at a particular distance.Will require complex planning, given the way that both sides of battle approach one another.
The War banner: Gives all Skeletons nearby (and in this row, and neighboring rows) a bonus and (most importantly DOES NOT MOVE.
It just sticks to whichever position it starts at, and the battle moves around it. Hence... you kind of want enemies who will move towards you. Also, you probably want the banner in the middle row (so it effects all three), but this puts pressure on the slots you have available.
Fire Belcher: When he attacks, he also attack the same square in neighboring rows.
"The Strategist" A skeleton that sits on its haunches and DOESN'T MOVE for the first turn. Useful for controlling the flow of battle, if positional elements become more important.
Think you've seen everything Auto Necrochess has to offer?
I turn the game into ridiculous challenge runs: no-shield runs, restricted team compositions, weird self-imposed rules, and attempts to beat the game under the toughest conditions possible.
In my latest challenge, I cleared the game using only ranged units, with no Shield and no Milk, barely surviving with just 2 out of 10 hearts left.
If you enjoy challenge runs, unusual strategies, and watching the game pushed to its limits, check out the channel
What challenge should I try next?
Turn 5 victory (or possible "Victory?")
I know its possible, but bloody difficult.
That or "6 turns, 10hp" victory
A 5 or 6-turn victory sounds absolutely brutal.
I love challenge ideas like this.
If I manage it, you'll see it on the channel. 😄
I've managed a 6-turn 9-hp victory (Only once on this version) and a 5 turn 0-hp victory (on previous version) so.... I think both are possible, BUT... yes, correct, these are absolutely brutal.
use summoning cards only you cant use milk or shield (level one skull counts) other then that only summoning card
also bard and the rockstar does not count as a summoning card
No Milk, no Shield, no Bard, no Rockstar... I'm honestly not sure if it's even possible, but now I have to try.
If I somehow pull it off, you'll see it on the channel.
new video
NO SPELLS - 10 HEARTS PERFECT RUN
I loved it it was just amazing i have played this for hours and finally finished i love the different abilities of the enemies and allies hated the guy’s that summon more when they die but I also found them fun in a way tanks so much fore making this and giving me on of the best games i have played in a long time
That level 3 summon book is just absolute gold.
This became one of those little games I kept coming back to on my phone. Simple, fun, and strangely addictive. :)
I really hope there will be an update someday!
Satisfying! It took two or three days to win my first game, I'm interested to see how the "decks" feature pans out.
type of shit happens when you invest only in summoning units(forgot to screenshot my army)
If it's not too much. Can you put an option to control volume of effects and music apart? (sorry for my poor english)
fire game but oh my god its so difficult
woo! turn 10, 10/10 health remaining
(nice)
Poease do telephone
MY FIRST EVER WIN I’VE PLAYED THIS GAME FOR OVER A YEAR
Big man stronk (Apparently I didn’t get the screenshot, but my final lineup consisted of a level 2 succubus, a level 1 succubus, 2 level 2 stronk men)
My best run: 6 turns and 8 health remaining. I think 10 health requires very good luck
Had a couple of perfect games in 7 turns as well
fun game have yet to beat it though :(
I support her, but i will also be overthrowing her.
I won with this team... had no idea that projectile spam only team was this good
By the way, the strategy with two bulldozers (like pigman/sticky/big-boned) who are strong enough to clean secondary lanes + bard&rocker backed summoned items on the primary lane is my favourite build.
The most annoying here are two problems:
1) Too many snitches at the first levels just overflow any defence and make 10HP run impossible
2) Uncontrolled progression to final boss with too efficient summoning build. Unfortunately, killing 10HP princes is quite hard task when you got final boss at 8th level
Amazing game, got really hooked. Although it seems kinda hard at first, I enjoyed it all the way through and managed to beat it in the end (barely 2 hp left but i'll take it) which was really satisfactory. I could see this as a full game. but I will still remember it even as a short game. I also liked the art, specially for the MC.Music also felt appropiate.
Short one tho! I cannot wait for to pay for the full version with more content/modes, the developer is still working on that, so fingers crossed Stopsignal!
PS. IMO Old art's in the game look much better, the new ones smell AI (at least the skeletons).
I would either add an option to change back to the old ones in the settings or add the new Halloween look as a free DLC on Steam.
PS2. I might be wrong but ATM it feels for me like the only strategy to beat the game is:
Strategy:
{Strategy TLDR: Mages do a lot of damage all over the board while we push them back to do even more damage using either Skeleton-Spell or characters that summon creatures, e.g. Ratfolk}
How to play:
Go Early Archers spam -> 70% Mages + 1Rocker + 3Spells(2XSkelletons+1XCurse) + 3X *Tank on every lane
Mages are simply OP, with only 9 LVL1 Mages, you deal 18 DAMAGE all over the board every round, and that is with only 1 lvl1 Spell, thats why we take 3X of them, we can lvl them UP which will give us 9X spells total, amounting to 162 Damage, simply outrageous, but this tactic has its weakness, and for us that is Mages needing to move a tile to cast their spell, this makes us want for mages to travel more, luckly with certain characters we can move them back a tile or even 2.
*(Tank choice is intresting, there are lots of options.
As a rule, we could go with a character that summons like Ratfolk, Summoner, or even LVL3 Skulls - they soak the damage and let our Mages cast, but IMO the best tank as of now is:
PigMan - it requires the same setum as Mages = it synergises well with SkelletonsSpell, (when you put a skeleton on top of your PigMan (at any time of the battle) it will push him back 1 tile, giving the PigMan 1/4 of the ability.)
I'm probably too invested in that, but I'm leaning into making a tierlist of characters for Auto Necrochess. I really hope there will be some sort of multiplayer added!
If you really read all that, I'm humbled, and I wish you a lovely day/evening.
My Socials:
Discord: d3gie
X: @DegieOfficial
My Score:
DID I WON? 😭😭😭
how do you get that ending?
I killed the king, but still I died and i got that
First kill the king and then die in another line
I did it.
game is fun, but I am not sure if it has much strategic depth. every buy counts so it feels like figuring out which buys are even worth it which are not and getting lucky enough with the shop
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS I FINALLY DID IT
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET A PERFECT SCORE FOR MONTHS
I found about this game around the time it came out (how is this more than 2 years old now) and I just beat it without losing any health!!!!
Awesome game; it's not like I play this 24/7, but I kept coming back to this over and over again. Hope the game gets the expansion it deserves and maybe gets uploaded on steam too. Easily one of the best games on itch rn. Thank you for creating this.
Amazing game! Took me a couple hours to get my first win, and I've been playing it almost nonstop this whole week since, despite sucking at it lol. I'm very excited to watch the progression in its development!!
Very hard XD, but fun
Hi, I played your game and made a video about it. Just wanted to let you know.
"It should be a bit hard, but not that much!! Who is up to the challenge? (;"
Im sorry? THis took me years!!
phew, that was a lot of fun and really cute! loved it!!!
épico bro, sigue así
I thought I'd never see the day TwT
Idea for game (add only if you want to)
In [] only additional things that maybe too hard to make.
If you will want to add campaign with 3 levels 1st its graveyard walls 1 row of health and tutorial for 1st game (kings son comes after graveyard walls destroyed do not give gold but 1 purchase in shop be free of lvl2 unit [cant be spell, item or building]).
(or any other theme of levels can be) after beating level units saved and for 1st fight next level +3 gold.
2nd kings city walls 3 rows of hp walls destroyed do not give gold but 2 puchase in shop be free of lvl2 item or spell [cant be building or unit] (every start of battle wall archer shot randomly dealing 1 damage +1 per row of wall hp taken, and wall guard comes after wall destroyed guards nearly ally adds +1 damage up to guard deaths ).
3rd kings castle 4 rows of hp (after every line of castle hp destroyed lowers lvl of random witch's unit [if on unit item takes that item instead of lvl lovering] [cant be spell, building, skull, mage or succubus]).
(If dev of Necro Chess have any questions to idea free to ask).
These idea originally for Necro Chess.
Have a good day and thanks for reading.
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