Demo Update: The Northern Pass and the Mire Are Open

Thank you for playing the Necro Rising: Rebirth demo. This is the biggest demo update so far:

New

• Two new chapters: Chapter 3, the Northern Pass, and Chapter 4, the Mire apothecary. The demo now covers the prologue and the first four chapters, about 1–1.5 hours.
• New companions: Yan Zheng, a blade captain of the Pass, and Shen Zhi, the physician of the Mire.
• Formations: through Yan Zheng's companion story, you gradually learn to form ranks — Arrowhead to break their lines, Ring Wall to guard your back — switched with a single key.
• New side quests and relics, with newly voiced side-quest lines.

Improvements

• More enemies on the road, and they're tougher — your legion matters more. In Chapter 3 the horde pours in and you roll through it, raising the dead as you go.
• Corpses now fade after a while; stand by the bodies and press Space to lay them to rest, and graves rise row by row back at camp. Improved handling of large numbers of remains.
• Every chapter now has its own music.
• Story pacing: dialogue no longer fires back to back; during combat you only get a short call-out and the scene plays once the fight ends; walking away no longer makes you miss it.

Fixes

• Some Mire objectives (lamps, herbs, roadside sights) couldn't be reached from the boardwalk.
• Camp music briefly playing when changing areas, or after falling in the Mire.
• Wrong respawn point at the Northern Pass that sent you straight back to camp.
• Unclear "sealed exit" message that stacked with another prompt.
• The "lay to rest" prompt displaying vertically.
• White fringing around Yan Zheng's portrait.

Still in progress: more voice lines, visual polish and later chapters. If you get stuck or confused, please tell us in the Discussions — a screenshot helps a lot. If you enjoy it, please add the game to your wishlist!