Overlord II

Overlord II is Triumph Studios' sequel to the cult-hit original. The new Dark Master inherits the Minions and faces the Glorious Empire — an emerging human regime that has filled the power vacuum since the previous Overlord fell.

Minions come in four flavours now: Browns (melee brawlers), Reds (ranged fire artillery), Greens (stealthy assassins), and Blues (no good in a fight but able to resurrect fallen Minions). They ride mounts, operate war machines, infiltrate camps, and loot weapons from corpses — generally treated as a small mobile army of disposable specialists.

The game offers two broad playstyles. Domination uses humanity as a workforce, village by village, slowly enslaving the empire from the inside. Destruction razes the same villages to the ground because they exist. Your alignment shifts between these poles depending on which choices you make in dialogue and on the map.

A Netherworld central hub gets rebuilt over the campaign, three mistresses can be wooed, and a steady stream of war machines comes online for the major sieges. The tone is darkly comic British humour, which the studio handles with more wit than most action games of the era manage.