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Overlord

Triumph Studios · Released 2007-10-26

RPG

Gauntlet46

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Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?

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Difficulty Modes

1 mode · 2 tiers

A ladder of tiers, with the effects that change per tier and the rules that apply to all of them.

Campaign2 tiers

The following tiers cover the campaign mode. There are no known permadeath or hardcore mechanics in Overlord natively. However, there is a permadeath enforcement patch available here.

Tier
Enemy HealthDetermines how much damage the Overlord must deal to defeat enemies
Enemy DamageDetermines how much damage enemy attacks deal to the Overlord and his minions
Health Potion RestorationSmall, Medium, and Large potions restore the listed amount of health.
Mana Potion RestorationSmall, Medium, and Large potions restore the listed amount of mana.

Normal

100%

100%

20/32/45

20/32/45

Legendary

175%

25%

10/16/22

10/16/22

LegendaryUnlockRequires Raising Hell Expansion

Basesoftcore

Enemies are significantly tougher, requiring careful minion management and tactical play. The start can especially be punishing and slow in regards to taking Fat Melvin Underbelly down. There's some unverified claims to health/mana-restoration.

Tier rulesRules that apply only to a specific difficulty tier and differ from the mode's other tiers.

No Base Body-armourAll body armour has 0 base defense on Legendary; other armour effects are separate.

Tier statsMeasured or numerical values specific to each difficulty tier, such as health, costs, resource availability or other scaling values.

Enemy Health175%

Enemy Damage25%

Health Potion Restoration10/16/22

Mana Potion Restoration10/16/22

Mode rulesRules that apply across every difficulty tier within the mode.

Locked DifficultyDifficulty is chosen when starting a game and cannot be changed afterwards.

Permadeath

Via RuleForge

Companion

Validated

Scoring

Moderate Challenge46

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Before you play

⚑Recommendationcompanion

Please apply one or more of these fixes to ensure steady gameplay

Download dgVoodoo2 and apply d3d9.dll to the game directory. The game appears to mishandle DirectX 9 fullscreen transitions on ALT+TAB and this provides some stability. Please use another proxy DLL than d3d9.dll for Gauntlet Enforcement, such as dinput8.dll.
See PCGamingWiki for in-depth documentation about any issue.

Quick facts

DeveloperTriumph Studios

PublisherCodemasters, Electronic Arts

Released2007-10-26

Platforms

Languages

Features

ControllerPartial

Always onlineNo

MicrotransactionsNo

Split screenNo

LANNo

VRNo

HDRNo

SubscriptionNo

Requirements

OSWindows(R
CPUPentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon XP 2400+
GPUVideo: GeForce FX5900 / Radeon 9500 or above
RAM512MB RAM
DirectXDirectX 9c
Storage4.5 GB available

Contact

Websitewww.codemasters.com/overlord