Monolith Releases Rage of Mages II: Necromancer Demo

Monolith has put out a playable demo of Rage of Mages II: Necromancer, the PC game it is bringing to market with Nival that mixes role-playing and real-time strategy. You train up a character, recruit allies, gather weapons, and throw magic around while working quests toward the main plot: hunting down the source of an undead menace and recovering an ancient artifact powerful enough to stop it.

The full game brings a single-player story, matches for as many as 16 players, and a new map editor for building your own multiplayer battlegrounds. The demo, labeled Rom2, is up now in the download section of Monolith’s site. RPG and RTS in one box is a combination I’ll always try at least once, and free makes trying it easy.