A lich creator with a selector for horns, and a throne built from bone
A solo-made dark fantasy dungeon crawler where dying and rising again is the whole point, and the character screen already knows it.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The picture Lich Lords leads with, before a single sword swings, is a crowned skeleton king in a blue robe between two skeletons hiding their faces. It is a mood board rather than a picture of play, and it works. What the screenshots give you after that is a game trying to hold two registers at once. There is the murky, atmospheric stuff: fog-choked bridges, floating pink husks that look like something out of a fever dream, a walled autumn village where a character called Miri asks you, in a font that would not look out of place in a PS2-era RPG, whether you found the doll. And then there i...