Not the theme I would have liked but after some brainstorming I’ve come up with a couple ideas. One was inspired by Diablo II’s necromancer where you can resurrect dead bodies to work for you and kill more enemies. The other idea was similar but instead of minions you’d use “things” found inside the dead enemies to upgrade yourself.

Not sure of the style yet but I’ll probably make it into some form of 2D sidescroller.