Preferably offline and not very hardware demanding (I can’t seem to run anything Unreal Engine 4).
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Etherlords and its sequel. The actual gameplay is pretty much MTG and the character I picked rode around the over world on a giant spider. You can pick them up on GOG for pocket change but are probably on Steam too
D2R as necromancer?
Torchlight 2, as either an Engineer with mechanical minions or an Outlander with shadowlings.
This is a pretty common feature of traditional roguelikes. Try Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Can you believe that the whole reason I’m asking is because I keep trying to run Ghoul Necromancer and dying to stupid stuff before even getting to the first branch? I keep running into dragons on level 3, centaur warriors on level 4, and the most decroded antediluvean monsters as early as level 5 like sun gods, gargoyles, weird purple and cyan things, etc. When I first played it more last year I got decently far on melee fighter runs, no such luck this time around.
Masters of Anima was a really fun minion summoning game. It is very similar to overlord style of game play if I recall correctly.
Story was generic but I love the game itself.
Obviously different ARPGs like Diablo 2 . Necromancer can have a lot of skellies boning around
Me furiously taking notes.
But yeah, sadly some of my best minion moments have been online-centric games. Some tabletops give that feel, like MtG and some DnD classes if you really tweak your character. My summoner bard was fun, even if it added to already slow games. And remember, summons don’t just have to be for combat. I once used Earth Elementals for evidence collection.
Sacrifice, if you don’t mind how early-3D-era it is
Pillars of Eternity’s Chanter is all about summoning, with the sequel adding more options there as well. You have many different types of Summons, and on the side you also juggle some active spells and buffs as ‘Chanter’ in this universe is kinda like a ‘Bard’: their songs and poems is how they summon things.
Though it’s online, Path of Exile 1 has a fun necromancer path if you start as a Witch. I never finished the campaign but even then my max horde was like ~50-60 minions running around murdering everything for me.
Not exact sure if this fits your hardware requirements but there’s a lot of fun summoning abilities (especially with workshop mods) in Divinity: Original Sin 2.
There needs to be a distinction between a summoner with like 5 strong minions and a summoner with a trash mob of 30+ cannon fodder.
As long as I’m standing back and looking at green healthbars moving around making red healthbars go down I’m happy
I have literally the perfect game for you. It’s called Boneraiser Minions! It’s indie pixel art but it is super fun!
I had to scroll so far for this 💔
But doctor, I am Pagliacci…
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. It’s almost all summoning.
Also, can’t Guild Wars 1 be played offline? The Necromancer in that is all about minioning
GW1 is online only, though the game works well as a solo experience. The minion master in that game is my fav by far.
Its fun having minions that are slowly dying, and seeing how many you can manage to collect before they all croak
it’s also having a 20th anniversary event right now so there’s way more people online than usual, for whatever that’s worth
maybe you’ll find some friendly people to party up and collect minion skills and make a goofy number of minions
