Skeletal Soldiers Rise! Diablo-Inspired Dungeon Crawler ‘Skull Horde’ Coming to PC in 2025

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Necromancy has never looked more like a viable career path than in Skull Horde, the auto-battling dungeon crawler, from fittingly named indie developer 8BitSkull.

Releasing in 2025, it sees players commanding a menacing army of undead soldiers as a flying skull, proving that having a complete skeleton is really just holding you back. In case you missed it, 8BitSkull has revealed the very first gameplay trailer for the game!



Betrayed by his own flesh and blood, buried, and forced to spend an eternity underground, our necromancer protagonist has a literal bone to pick, and goes on a revenge mission against the rest of his body. Call upon your fellow living-challenged and watch your minions do your bidding independently, in real-time auto-battles.

Skull Horde’s procedurally generated dungeons are populated with unique enemy types, each with their own strategies to send you back from whence you came. Each run provides new ways to take down fleshfolk as you collect loot and boons from chests and shrines, upgrade and merge units, and unlock powerful perks that combine with each playable character’s strengths.

Key Features of Skull Horde:

No Body? No Problem!: Stunt on the haters (your own body) as one of multiple playable characters with unique special abilities, including the option of being a floating skull.

Super Soldier Squad: Turn your army into the finest assortment of expendable minions that money can buy, combining loot found in the dungeons to gain great advantages, and merging multiple units to make them stronger.

Procedurally Generated Dungeons: No two dungeons are alike and each level features a variety of enemy types, ensuring that builds must be tinkered and tweaked to overcome their attacks. Unique challenges that reward new unlocks and content will also keep you on your skele-toes.

Skull Horde will be released on PC via Steam in 2025, with Steam Deck and Linux support.