Nemire

Introduction

Nemire asks the usual squad-tactics question from the other side of the table: rather than defending humanity from an invading horror, the player commands the horror, harvesting souls from the living to grow a squad of undead soldiers and eventually wipe out humanity's last resistance. Made and published solo by developer Egidijus Adomaitis and released 18 February 2024 for NZ$10.49, it carries a small enough review history — 28 reviews across every language it has ever received — that this review reads every one of them rather than sampling. What emerges from that full read is Mostly Positive sentiment built on a genuinely fresh hook, and a launch rough enough to leave real scars, softened almost entirely by what happened after.

Playing the monster, for once

The premise draws consistent, specific praise. "An indie gem," one early reviewer calls it, comparing the addictive gameplay loop to "XCOM and Battle Brothers," praising "a lot of variety in both friendly and enemy units" alongside a randomly generated feat system. A more recent review agrees the hook still lands: "Fresh spin on the turn-based tactical RPG... this was the first Random Unit Traits game I have played." Permadeath gives runs real stakes without making losses feel punishing, according to multiple reviewers — one specifically notes that "losing a run doesn't feel bad" thanks to how the recruitment and squad-building systems are structured around expecting losses rather than punishing them severely.

A launch week that needed the fixes it got

The negative side of this small sample is dominated by technical complaints dated almost entirely to launch week. "Selecting units also is extremely janky," one reviewer wrote two days after release, describing crashes when trying to select units in the first mission. Another, also from launch week, called the difficulty "insane," describing enemies that "can also go through your men, which means there's no strategy, its just a fodder fest." A third reported missions with "more than 15 enemies and a boss with over a thousand life points" that felt statistically unwinnable.

What separates this from a simple story of a rough launch is how directly the developer responded, and how many reviewers noticed. "The developer so far released a patch every day fixing bugs and is also active in the discord," one reviewer wrote within days of launch. Another: "the developer is pretty active on the discord and fixes bugs neigh immediately upon discovery." A third: "with more content and variety coming soon I can see this growing into a very solid tactical game." That wasn't just goodwill — Steam's own patch history backs it up directly. A hotfix landed the day after launch, followed by numbered updates roughly weekly through March and April, and a substantial Update 1.1.0 that September explicitly stated its purpose: "Most common two items of feedback was the mission difficulty, especially for the event missions, and the game freezing on enemy turn. The game now should feel substantially more fair than before as certain enemy and boss unit's stats were adjusted." That's a direct, documented response to the two specific complaints named above.

Still going, more than two years later

What makes Nemire's story genuinely unusual for a solo-developed game this size is that the support never really stopped. Steam's community announcements show continued balance updates through 2025, and two full paid content expansions — Rivers of Blood and Deathbringer — released in October and November 2025, well over a year and a half after the original launch. A small update followed in December 2025, and by March 2026 the developer was already announcing a new project while still supporting this one. That's a meaningfully longer commitment than most titles this size receive, and it shows in the achievement data: a genuinely deep, gradually tapering difficulty curve running from 92.3% for an early milestone down to 2.3% for defeating five bosses, evidence of real long-tail content for players willing to push into it. It's worth noting the game hasn't become bug-free in that time — at least one 2026 review still reports occasional game-breaking crashes forcing level restarts — so buyers shouldn't expect total polish, just a developer who has kept working at it.

Final Verdict

Nemire is a cheap, distinctive tactics RPG whose launch reputation — buggy, brutally unfair, janky — undersells what two and a half years of a genuinely committed solo developer have turned it into. The core hook of playing the monster rather than fighting it remains its best idea, and the difficulty, while real, is by design rather than by neglect according to both the patch history and the achievement data. For NZ$10.49, and especially given the developer's demonstrated follow-through, it's an easy recommendation for tactics fans willing to judge the current build rather than its first week.