Summoning

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Player can summon creatures to do her bidding. These usually (but not necessarily) perish after a set time.

268
games
34
platforms

Alternate name: Conjuration

Implied: magic
In case the summonables remain through level changes and everything, you should add minions tag as well.

This should not be used when you can teleport creatures or allies to your location from somewhere else.

Should not be used for cases where some spell summons a creature to perform single attack and then disappears, as such cases can be counted as simply fancier magic effects even if it is a form of summoning. The easiest method to see the difference is that if the summoned creature can be attacked too.

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Child group

Summoning sickness

Related groups

Other
Minions

Activities
Sorcery

Games by year

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The first Summoning video game was released in 1983.

Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard and Blizzard Entertainment published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 101
Linux 52
Mac OS X 18
X360 13
PS3 13
Mac OS Classic 8
MS-DOS 7
PS 5
PS2 4
Pandora 4
Internet Only 4
iOS 4
Android 3
BSD 3
Tandy Coco 3
Switch 3
Xbox One 2
PS4 2
Xbox 2
Atari ST 2
Nintendo DS 2
PSP 1
Dreamcast 1
Arcade 1
GamePark 32 1
Flash 1
NeXT 1
Solaris 1
Unix 1
OS/2 1

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