Spellmasons

Genuinely groundbreaking and fresh magic system. It feels evergreen - like chess. SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GOOD

If you've ever wondered [i]why[/i] an all-powerful mage would go mad with power and amass an army of thralls marching in tireless ritual to sally forth an age of darkness, you'll probably be quite sympathetic after you play this. Like many great wizardry games, maximum fun is attained by breaking your enemies, and the game, in the most preposterous ways imaginable. Will you create a recursive clone army, and pray your enemies fall before your PC does? How about some unholy trigonometry to pulverize every living thing with hit points divisible by [i]x[/i]? Absorb the souls of your foes, take their life as your own, and become functionally-immortal? As you strive to optimize the hand you're dealt, every run becomes an exercise in emergent character-building - combo after combo, spell after diabolical spell, the allure of perfecting your craft gravitates you wordlessly into countless stories of discovery, cultivation, and apocalyptic hubris.

Shadow wizard money gang (We love casting spells)

It's a steep learning curve, but eventually you get to where a 7800x3D and 4900 struggles to keep up with all the vector targetting. Awesome chill and challenging game with simple graphics but endless spell comboes.

the game was fun but the balancing sucks, needs a revamp

making builds isnt really fun. I don't know why but the way things are worded make me hate everything. Maybe ill change the review if i play more

this feels like a game jam game, certainly not worth $20

TL:DR; a game with a brilliant and in-depth spell mixing system, waiting for an full game to exist in. This isn't it. So, obvious thing first- the spell mixing system in this is great. Every spell can combine with every other spell and at its core its quite simple. All spells are either "effect" or "modifier" but you really can slap any spell with any other spell and get something interesting and fun. The problem is the rest of the game, or rather the lack of it. Aside from levelling up your stats once per floor or getting the occasional interesting modifying perk, that's all there is to the game. Enemy variety is poor, there's literally no story, most levelling up is just making your numbers bigger, movement is a clunky attempt at freeform instead of grid-based. The game feels like a very interesting tech demo for a very interesting game mechanic, but not much more than that. I'd love to see a Spellmasons 2 that fills up the rest of the game with everything this is missing.