Action · July 12, 2016

NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION (2016)

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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.

Action releases from 2016

168 Action titles launched in 2016 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Souls-like · 162
  • Action Roguelike · 156
  • Co-op · 127
  • Adventure · 121
  • Rogue-like · 110
  • Action · 100
  • Dungeon Crawler · 97
  • Rogue-lite · 85
  • Indie · 76
  • Difficult · 75
  • Multiplayer · 73
  • Procedural Generation · 64
  • Perma Death · 53
  • Third Person · 47
  • Hack and Slash · 46

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.6k Steam reviewsTop 62% in Action
Positive rating65% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 91%
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 45% for session depth among Action

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“The Necropolis you can play today is very different from, and vastly superior to, the Necropolis that launched in July. […] So if you wrote this game off or have been on the fence about it, now is as good a time as any to jump in, because in all honestly, you’re missing out on one of the finest gaming experiences of the year.” 9.2/10 – Absolute Geeks “While roguelike and roguelike-inspired games such as these feel like a dime…

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (7)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Polish
  • Russian

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 12, 2016
DeveloperHarebrained Schemes
PublisherParadox Interactive, Bandai Namco
Base price$7.49 -75%
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Support

Reception Metrics

Steam community

65%Mixed · 4.6k reviews

3.0k positive · 1.6k negative

Curator recommendations

3.7k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

Achievements

13

Steam unlocks available

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Editions & Packages

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