Anyone got any good ideas for a game where a skeleton is the main character?

Anyone got any good ideas for a game where a skeleton is the main character?

Medieval 1 & 2

A 3D platformer collectathon where you have to find the bones of the skeleton wizard king (scattered by the main antagonist) so you can put him back together, defeat the BBEG and restore the rightful ruler of boneland. As you piece him back together you unlock new moves/abilities. Game takes place in various realms of the underworld.

>Start off weak.
>Massive dungeon.
>Have to kill the hero of the game..
>Dark Souls gameplay.
>Can't beat him until you're strong. You're just a trash mob.
>He levels up as you level up.
>It's a race.
>Hero has to sleep at night, but you don't.
>Set up traps.
>Set up ambushes.
>Dark rituals to make the dungeon mobs stronger.
>If you make it to endgame, the hero brings in three party members.

Rough outline. I know there's glaring holes in it, but it's the best I got.

>start at evil castle, sent by wizard to do a thing
>2D sidescrolling "metroidvania" style
>if you die you collapse into a pile of your items, low level loot, and coins
>another skeleton (with a different hat!) is sent to replace you/recover your stuff
>can encounter hero adventurers that need to be spooked, places you've fought will have skeletons left over which show your progress and expansion
>successes allow other skeletons (of defeated enemies) to be playable from the starting area, with different weapons and abilities
>if you're good you expand the wizard's realm, maybe take over the good guys castle
>if you suck you can get pushed back and need to be on defense
if it wasn't a platformer sort of thing, a party system would be cool

I wanna play


> add in charisma to be able to have more mobs work with you

>Eventually become bombass skeleton knight
>Lord over your crypt with a bunch of skele underlings
>Final boss is the adventurer party vs you and the horde

Bonus points for a caster route that lets you become a lich

> dialogue with some skelepuns
> decorate the dungeon with spiderwebs and other such spooky props
> brutal combat when you hit the adventurer, blood and shit and can make them retreat if you damage them enough
> skull engravings
> pick your own boss music

Man I like Skeledefense

Whatever idea you have it will never be as good as Grim Fandango.

A game like Ys Oath where you play as a skeleton and that explain the mute MC
You escape from the lair of your necromancer when it gets raided by paladins

>Undead Beastmaster
>Can raise and augment all sorts of animals
>Take parts of one and add them to another
>Or yourself
>Mauling the party with rotting bear claws and corroding armor with putrid spider venom

PLEASE SOMEBODY MAKE THIS GAME

Skeleton war simulator (namechange required)

Semi-open world sidescroller with story branches, dialogue choices, character choices and so on.

Main goal is to become king of the underground by beating the boss nigga skeleton.

A game in which you raid human settlements with your skeleton bros so you can enslave those fleshy bitches.

this arouses me

Okay so enter vaginas as a skeleton and take control

You are beyond fucked in the head.

Skeleniggas would never fug an ugly humangirl, skeletongirls is where it's at.

They can still be used for labor.

I like you.

Want to make out?

>skeletongirls is where it's at.
BROTHER

>physics similar to exanima
>dismantle defeated enemies skeletons and swap out bones for different stats
>customise your skelly and place bones wherever you wish like spore creature editor
>add extra joints to create new swing/hit mechanics and balance

HELL YEAH

>breasts

I would totally BONE that skeleton

Newnigga they fake

What if you are a Lich

Just ask this guy.

This. I just can't get past the part where I need to get rid of the pigeons.

oldsnowflake whats the point then

>Old Snowflake

I like it.

Internshipanon she's a character from an autistic dating game

So its Shadow of Mordor with switched roles?

>die
>bones scatter
>they merg themselves back tohether
>another life
>only certain things can kill you

> stat bones

fuck yeah!

but user, there's a skeleton girl inside that human girl

>dark souls gameplay

sure, just do not make the combat like dark souls, there's too much of that shit already

have multiple classes and subclasses so you can go towards different endgame routes like skeleton warlord who controls an army or powerful lich king that can do all sorts of magics and summons

the plot can be something like satan/hades dying and leaving his throne up to a raffle in his will and you end up winning it. building a strong empire of other hellspawn and invading the mortal realm. killing lots of armies led by main characters and war heroes from other games. though of course you'd have to change their names and appearances a bit so as not to get sued out the ass

would it be better if the game was a roguelike
no bully pls

i'd personally enjoy it in the CRPG or ARPG style. or maybe even like the KoToR games just obviously modernized

Boy, do I have the game for you.

>ask this wraith what's it like to be a skeleton
Mobius, stop trying to fuck with the timestream.

>intro level/tutorial is the MC working on his lich ceremony
>have to set up defenses on your tower/castle/spooky mansion at edge of a cliff
>use spells to enchant your minions' weapons and armor
>complete the intro by drinking the potion and sealing your soul in the phylactery of your choosing
>now you gotta find a good safe hiding spot for said phylactery, don't want any pesky "hero" types to find it
>take a small squad of minions for protection, or go alone to be extra sneaky
>once you find a nice hiding spot, go back home and prepare
>for the SKELETON WAR

THE CRITTERS ARE UNDER ATTACK

>SKELETON WAR

>never dead

Why haven't we got a proper necromancer game where you can do shit like.
>Start off with a small cave or shack lair and a small local village graveyard.
>You start off with only shitty skeles and do researche to upgrade summons.
>Get new summons by killing people and monster.
>Raid villages/towns/castles.
>Gradually upgrade lair to citadel.
>Get invaded or invade paladins and other necromancers.
>Get special units by killing and reanimating powerful beings.
>Rule the world.

Something something something dark souls

>always flung across the room

its worse than death

you are a skeleton cow of a cow, and you mission is to eat human to restore yourself.
if you eat enough human and restore you meat, you go on a berserk frenzy called mad cow where you are on fire and you are faster stronger, but can't controll too well, and when is finished you are bones again.

brb making this.

Ainz sama aproves this thread.

I just want a game where you play as a random, low rank mook/henchman/minion/underling trying to follow orders from the boss and surviving.

Kinda like the whole approach A Bard's Tale had to it's story. You are on no grand quest and just trying to do your thing, but from the "Evil" side of the conflict.

You play as a skeleton that can remove its head to attach to other skeletal bodies and control them. You have to defeat skeletal enemies by jacking their comrades' skeletons and using their powers against them.

Imagine, playing as one of these and wrecking shit. A water level where you attach to an icthyosaur skeleton. Or even taking pieces of different skeletons and combining them to get new abilities.

Maybe the plot is that you're a no-name skeleton raised by an evil necromancer who rebels against him, and that's why your other enemies are skeletal too.

Wasn't there some guy who was working on a necromancer game?
I remember he quit after a few months, though. Something about it not "coming together the way he wanted."

>rebeling against your necrobro
For shame, skelanon

it's was on rpg maker?

Basically crash of the titans but with skeles?

No no, you don't fug them, you liberate the skeleton inside them by tearing the flesh from their bones. Then you use dark rituals to awaken the skeleton and have it join your ranks.

They kidnap females because they're easier to get than men. Remember, skeletons are just weak trash mobs after all.

Just make a Dungeon Keeper/Evil Genius clone but the main character is a Lich Necromancer

So basically Messiah but with Skeletons?

Never played that, is it good?

She's gonna get boned.

in castlevania circle of the moon you can play as a skeleton

Can I take this idea and make it a reality?

if you do, don't add memes

There's that Meaty Boner flash game where you play as a skeleton who gets stronger by eating meat off of enemies and putting it on yourself so you actually have muscles and shit.

point and click skeleton detective game set in a Halloween theme

I won't at all, I just want the guy who came up with the idea's approval.

Did you like Earthworm Jim or MDK? Do you like Cyberpunk? Can you stand blocky late 90's graphics?

Then very yes.

That presents the problem of some guy metagaming it and beating the hero at level 2 or whatever, if you introduce scaling to fix that then it results in it not feeling like a race at all.

A 2D platformer about a recently-formed skelly discovering how he ended up a skeleton?

RPG with an undead cleric. Has conflicting moral issues with what he has become.

Also he can't heal himself.

...

>smite?
>don't smite?
>smite?
>don't smite?
Fuck clerics, though. Unfun assholes. Only thing worse than a cleric is a paladin.

buried alive VR
youre in a grave with night vision so you can look down at your decomposing body
best played lying down in a box
keep an eye out for the cement shoes DLC

A game where you can merge with other Skeletons and shit.

>Be human skeleton
>Fightan humans
>Large expansive level design
>Fantasy Monsters
>Find skeletons of other things
>Merge with it as much as you like
>Bone weapons like the legendary Skelly-ton
>Eventually be human Skeleton with Giraffe neck whip arm and other crazy skeleton shit and Rhino horn fists and spike bones and other crazy shit but you're still a human skeleton augmented with other bones
>Bones you are combined with change progression through the level

Call it, Skellymerge: Prepare To Bone™

Also the music is exclusively Xylophones or Xylobones.

>have flesh
>get it melted off by enemies
>turn into a skeleton

This image has really made me notice that we are severely lacking games featuring skeletons using modern weapons.

spoiler: he died.

>Metal ger skeleton: "i was already a skeleton"