Dark Lord is a 1991 adventure-RPG for early personal computers and the NES. The game has largely faded from active coverage, but recent headlines reflect confusion with Arise Dark Lord, a new action-RTS hybrid from Prison Architect developers Introversion Software. Arise Dark Lord tasks players with commanding undead armies and conquering settlements, combining real-time strategy, tower defense, and base-building mechanics with direct control of a player-controlled Dark Lord avatar. The game appears designed around enabling player agency as an antagonistic force, though whether its mechanical design substantiates that premise remains to be seen.
via Rock Paper Shotgun
What do we want? The ability to be evil in video games! How do we want it? Designed in a way that's mechanically enriching! That's what I'm hoping Arise Dark Lord will be, anyway, a Frankensteinian mish mash of action, real-time strategy , tower defence and base building where yo…
via GamingOnLinux
Arise Dark Lord is an action-strategy hybrid RTS that blends tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux .
via PCGamesN
From the developers of Prison Architect, Arise Dark Lord is a brand new action RTS that sees you raise undead armies and conquer heathens.
via Polygon
Prime Video offered a first look at the new season as it finally gets to the exciting stuff in Tolkien's epic fantasy series