Home News Arise Dark Lord is an action-RTS hybrid styled like a Lord of the Rings map where you raise an army of the undead to kill all humans
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Arise Dark Lord is an action-RTS hybrid styled like a Lord of the Rings map where you raise an army of the undead to kill all humans

What do we want? The ability to be evil in video games! How do we want it? Designed in a way that's mechanically enriching! That's what I'm hoping Arise Dark Lord will be, anyway, a Frankensteinian mish mash of action, real-time strategy, tower defence and base building where you are an evil overlord who rules over a n...

What do we want? The ability to be evil in video games! How do we want it? Designed in a way that's mechanically enriching! That's what I'm hoping Arise Dark Lord will be, anyway, a Frankensteinian mish mash of action, real-time strategy, tower defence and base building where you are an evil overlord who rules over a nefarious army and wants to kill all humans.

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