Bone to Pick

Bone To Pick

Bone To Pick is a dark fantasy necromancer tactics game where every enemy you kill is a potential recruit.

Your body was the first thing taken from you. You begin as a severed hand, animated by a  desperate soul-transfer ritual after your body was stolen. Alone in a cave lair, you crawl back into the world with one plan: raise the dead, build an army, and take back what was yours. 

Command your undead horde across a dark version of the Isle of Man. Raid villages, graveyards, roads, churches, and enemy patrols. Raise corpses in the field, survive escalating enemy forces, and bring your best undead home to the lair for future missions.

 Current Features

  - Raise fallen enemies into undead summons

  - Command a growing horde with attack-move, recall, reserve, and formation

    behavior

  - Store surviving marked units in the Barracks between missions

  - Fight peasants, longbowmen, horsemen, priests, pikemen, knights, and bosses

  - Convert enemy types into matching undead units, including skeleton archers,

    undead horsemen, undead priests, undead pikemen, and undead knights

  - Evolve zombies into specialized forms like knife swarm, spore-infested, and

    bulwark variants

  - Level up during missions with temporary power cards

  - Upgrade your lair with persistent progression

  - Explore a campaign map based on real Isle of Man locations

  - Play Survival Mode against escalating waves

  - Choose between Commander and Necromancer classes

The Loop

 Enter the lair. Pick a mission. Kill the living. Raise the dead. 

Each fight is about positioning, timing, and momentum. You are fragile, but your army is not. Bodies are resources. Corpses are opportunities. A bad fight can erase your best units, but a good one can turn an enemy force into your next invasion party.

Marked survivors can be brought back to the Barracks, letting your army develop across missions instead of resetting every run. 

Story

You were a thief. You were caught. Your hand was severed and thrown away.

With nothing left, you taught yourself necromancy and tried to restore your body. The ritual was interrupted, your body was taken, and your soul escaped into the only piece of you left behind.

Now the hand commands the dead.

Your lair is hidden. Your enemies think you are gone. They are wrong.

Development State

  Bone To Pick is in active development. The current build focuses on the core combat, summoning, lair progression, campaign map, tutorial flow, unit conversions, zombie evolutions, and Survival Mode. More campaign structure,  enemy escalation, lair systems, and narrative events are planned.