Cozy Necromancy

About the game

In one sentence

Cozy Necromancy is a cozy 3D mystery RPG with no combat, in which a journeyman necromancer lays a village’s restless dead to rest by listening to them, finding out what holds them, and making the case with three objects in a ritual circle.

Short description (about 50 words)

A gentle mystery about a village that cannot let go of its dead. As a journeyman necromancer, you lay six spirits to rest by listening to them, investigating what holds them, and making your case with three objects in a ritual circle. No combat, no timers, no fail states.

Long description

You are a journeyman necromancer, freshly graduated and posted to Willowmere on your first assignment. The spirit waypoint beneath the village, the Moonwell, was sealed thirty-five years ago, and the dead have been collecting behind it ever since. None of them are hostile. All of them are stuck.

There is no combat in this game. You cannot fight a ghost into peace.

Every bound spirit is a person with an unfinished sentence: a twin who blames herself for a fire, a knight who kept the wrong oath, a hedge witch the village burned and later thanked. You travel with them, watch what they react to, read the archive someone misfiled, and ask the living about the things they would rather not say.

When you think you know what binds a spirit, you say it with objects: three items placed in the ritual circle. What matters is what they mean. A locket, a scorched hinge, a letter never sent. Get it right and they can move on. Get it half right and they will tell you so. Nothing is ever consumed, so you can always try again.

Six companion stories, each resolvable on its own, and one older question under all of them: who sealed the Moonwell, and what were they protecting?

Features

• No combat. A haunting gets solved once you understand it.
• Six spirits, six stories. A ghost twin, a silent knight, a burned hedge witch, a 212-year-old golem, a vampire missing sixty years of memory, and an assassin who cannot picture the faces.
• The ritual is an argument. Three symbolic items, four possible outcomes, and nothing lost for being wrong.
• A village that talks. Villagers with their own gossip and their own reasons to keep a secret, and a square full of neighbors running errands and talking among themselves.
• Quiet by design. No timers, no fail states, no resource management. Optional packing puzzles, hints, and a journal that remembers what you have worked out.
• Offline, no account. No ads and no microtransactions on Steam. Steam achievements, and nothing collected about the player.