Press release

SOTN: Revenant's Kickstarter enters its last day!

Barcelona, Spain – March 1st, 2023

The Kickstarter campaign for 3D Action RPG Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant is entering its last 24 hours having currently raised more than 120,000€, after reaching its initial goal of 15,000€ in just under two hours. The campaign has achieved its first 7 stretch goals: including additional voice lines (by voice actors that have appeared in anime and games like Jojo's Bizarre AdventureThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildGenshin Impact or the recent Fire Emblem Engage), more music from Dale North (DreamscaperWizard of Legendand Emi Evans (Nier AutomataDark Souls 2), new game modes and the option to make your custom character.

The campaign is looking for further support to reach more stretch goals and make the game even bigger!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimoriog/sword-of-the-necromancer-revenant

Backers can obtain the game at a lower price than when it comes out, and a copy of the original game for Steam with any tiered pledgeExclusive campaign rewards are available, including a very special surprise: a full-fledged Trading Card Game that also grants items and monsters to summon in the video game.

Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant's Physical and Collector's Edition will be possible thanks to Grimorio's partners Tesura Games, which also distributed the first Sword of the Necromancer in retail stores across Europe. You can have a look at the Collector's Edition contents below:

About Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant

Sword of the Necromancer: Revenant is a third-person 3D Action RPG with Dungeon Crawling and city building. Revive your enemies once again and make them fight alongside you!

With a completely renewed battle and companion system, travel the continent, restore the Sacred City of Euda to its former glory and vanquish the ominous threat that looms over the world.

Gather the powers of the Revenants, forgotten heroes of old times and create a little army of dead to defeat the Necromancer once and for all.

Key features:

The new game is being developed taking all the feedback from the original into account to create a refined and enjoyable Sword of the Necromancer experience, while keeping its trademark original mechanic and expanding upon it. Grimorio of Games is working to make an engaging game to both new and returning players.

    • Turn your foes into allies once again: use the Sword of the Necromancer to resurrect defeated monsters and make them fight alongside you.
    • Use the power of the Revenants: once ago great heroes, their spirits now wander the world. Defeat them in battle and unleash powerful summons.
    • Improved and customizable AI: set your monster’s Tactics to get the most of each one
    • New battle system: improved battle system with new possibilities like air combos. Swap characters at any moment and continue chaining hits!
    • Play solo or in local co-op: play the whole game with an AI companion or lend a controller to a friend to play together in split-screen co-op.
    • Leave the dungeon: travel the world and help its people, explore cities, towns and open fields. Delve into procedural dungeons filled with enemies, loot and challenges.
    • Restore Euda to its former glory: reconstruct a ravaged town, recruit people and get new functions and services like shops, a forge, cook…

About Grimorio of Games 

Grimorio of Games is a small team based in Barcelona. After developing the hyper-active action platformer Super Hyperactive Ninja, Grimorio of Games released Sword of the Necromancer, a top-down 2D Action RPG with roguelike elements, in 2021.

The game was released digitally on January 2021 for PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, and had a physical release in Europe for PS4 and Switch in September. In November, the game received PS5 and Xbox Series versions, thus being released in all current platforms.

Sword of the Necromancer previously had a very successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over €200K with more than 5500 backers.

Media contact

Grimorio of Games

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