2025-12-27 17:41 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_MaLal
It’s Steam Winter Sale time! Perfect time for some Necromancy!That’s why Hands of Necromancy is at an 80% discount until the 5th of January!And if you want to get full necro experience, get our franchise bundle, which adds our newest entry into the series with a nice 60% price reduction! This bundle will make great a present for your friends. Or, well, yourself. Who said you can’t be Santa for yourself?Happy holidays, and see you next year!
2025-09-24 11:55 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Josef
It’s time to lock, load, and dive headfirst into the loudest, fastest, and most explosive corner of gaming – the realm of boomer shooters! Until September 27, we’re celebrating the genre that never dies: blistering speed, oversized arsenals, brutal enemies, and that glorious retro feel. BOOMSTOCK brings together the best of old-school action with today’s wild new twists. To mark the occasion, Hands of Necromancy is being discounted by 80% for the entire duration of the event. Besides that, we’ve got a special milestone that we’d like to talk about: HYPERVIOLENT has officially left Early Access
2025-07-24 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Josef
Dear Necromancers, Today is a special day, as the dark first-person adventure GRAVEN is featured in a Steam Daily Deal with an unparalleled 80% off (the biggest discount so far)! Its action-packed boomer shooter sibling, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, isn’t falling behind either, and is currently available at the same discount. If you’ve been enthralled by the medieval fantasy setting in Hands of Necromancy, we can only recommend diving into these two games as well. Both titles are discounted only until July 31, so don’t miss it! GIVEAWAYTo celebrate the occasion, we’re following up on our previous Hand
2025-02-19 14:28 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Hello everyone! It's patch time today! We have a few important fixes that needed to be done, thank you all for keeping your eyes open and for reporting the issues! Please, keep doing so on our Discord server, we're keen to hear your feedback. Change Log: Audio Improvements A volume slider for pickups has been added to the audio settings. Bug Fixes Other minor bug fixes and improvements have been made to the game.
2024-09-16 17:01 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_Dom
Hello everyone! The day has finally come, as a part of the BOOMSTOCK event, Hands of Necromancy II is launching today! Watch the launch trailer now: It has been an awesome journey, and we can't describe how happy we are to finally share what we've been working with during the past time. We will, of course, keep supporting the game after release, so if you run into any bugs or if you simply want to share your feedback, feel free to do so here on Steam or join our Discord server where we can chat! Both Hands of Necromancy and Hands of Necromancy II are included in a brand-new bundle. Whether you
2024-07-29 15:34 UTC · Community Announcements · FQ_MichalC
Greetings Everyone, Today we have two major announcements for you: 1) Hands of Necromancy has received an update! V3.0 of the game brings many quality of life improvements, various bug fixes, and most importantly, support for new languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian - the full changelog is available at the end of this article. Due to the extent of the changes, old save files are not compatible with the new version. We recommend everyone to start a new playthrough, but if you wish to continue your pre-update saved games, you can. In the list of games on the left-hand side
2023-05-04 13:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
This should make the game more likely to startup properly on Mac OS.
2023-04-29 11:53 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
- A few minor fixes - Expansion is now available for all players
2023-02-16 19:50 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
"The "Easy Hubs" mode of Hands of Necromancy is now live! If you want focus less on an exploration hexen-like but something closer to heretic/doom, this mode is for you, in each of the 4 maps of the hubs, you have 1 key to find, once you get all the 4 keys, you go back to the hub to open the exit to the next map! Progression is more linear in that way except you choose the first map you want to play in the hubs!"
2023-02-05 00:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Frechou_Games_Dev
The Easy Exploration mode is available on the Beta Branch of the game, you have to choose "Beta" and redownload the game. Beta Branch option: https://i.imgur.com/WFnH57A.jpg What is the Easy Hubs mode? The "Easy Hubs" mode is made for people who want to spend more their time at shooting, you have to play a map 1 time (or more if you want explore it again to get items), there is 4 keys per hub (not 6) and each map of the hubs has 1 key to find, once you get the 4 keys, you can come back to the hub last portal and leave the hub. No more lot of come back to do to finish the hubs. Transformations
2022-10-27 15:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
Hands of Necromancy version 2.0 is released! • Adds a new third attack for the monster morphs! (default key: F) • Adds an alt-fire for all the other weapons • New weapon animations by BeardedDoomGuy • Fixes and improvements • Some balance changes • Weapon Hint System - when first selecting a new weapon, or when using a new morph, the game now tells you what keys to press to engage each available weapon function. (This also serves as a hint to bind your third attack key, as it will let you know if it's unbound!) • "give morphs" is now a valid cheat command • Ambient Sounds added • "Classic" mod
2022-10-06 15:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
Hello! The game is receiving a major balance rework that adds a lot of new functions and attacks for the players, which will be labeled Version 2.0. Since this update will fundamentally change many aspects of the game, we will be splitting the current version off into a branch called "Hands of Necromancy Classic" which will be based upon the current version (1.5.3). Version 2.0 will not have the "Classic Mode" that the current version has - since it is staying true to its own ways we felt that a branching would be better to handle going forward than maintaining a feature that no longer makes s
2022-08-18 19:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
• GZDoom engine updates, mostly fixing the shell folder open. Now works the same on all platforms and should be more secure. • Sword is now flagged as a melee weapon for mods/bots that need access to this info
2022-08-12 23:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
Patch v1.5.2 released • Some improvements to controller support • Ability to browse local config, screenshots, and save files • A few recent GZDoom engine fixes • Improvements to the new movement code
2022-08-06 17:35 UTC · Community Announcements · Rachael
• Introducing Map Markers for Key Doors and Portals • Fix for the switch of one of the map13 lifts • Pull fixes from GZDoom, post-4.8.2 • New movement code - the player starts and stops moving a lot quicker, less "sliding" - this change will be optional • New Special item: Hand of Necromancy (It raises the dead) • "Classic" mode - which removes the new Hand of Necromancy and makes the gameplay more similar to what it was before this update_Fixed skybox for some maps • Hand of Necromancy item revive the monster who is the closest to the player • Added more Hand of Necromancy items, max amount i
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