Spellcaster University
Sneaky Yak Studio · June 15, 2021 · Magic, Simulation, Colony Sim, Base Building, Management
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Spellcaster University price by region
Spellcaster University costs £1.89 in the United Kingdom, $1.99 in the United States, $1.99 in Georgia (USD), €2.17 in Europe (EUR), CA$8.69 in Canada, NZ$9.29 in New Zealand, zł10.31 in Poland, A$10.79 in Australia and R$14.25 in Brazil right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 United Kingdom | £1.89 −70% | £5.85 | £1.89 | 6 |
 United Statesyour region | $1.99 −73% | $7.49 | $1.99 | 8 |
 Georgia (USD) | $1.99 −73% | $7.49 | $1.99 | 8 |
 Europe (EUR) | €2.17 −70% | €6.29 | €2.17 | 7 |
 Canada | CA$8.69 −70% | CA$8.69 | — | 6 |
 New Zealand | NZ$9.29 −70% | NZ$9.29 | — | 6 |
 Poland | zł10.31 −70% | zł26.99 | zł10.31 | 8 |
 Australia | A$10.79 −70% | A$10.79 | — | 6 |
 Brazil | R$14.25 −70% | R$14.25 | R$14.41 | 7 |
Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.
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About Spellcaster University
Build and manage your magical university by recruiting teachers, selecting students, and choosing from five unique magic decks that shape your school's identity and gameplay in completely different ways each run. Survive orc raids and bureaucratic oversight while navigating political factions and student crises, with every choice rippling into short and long-term consequences that determine whether your graduates become legendary mages or village peasants.
In Spellcaster University, you take on the role of the director of a magic university in a colourful world of heroic fantasy. Build your school, manage your budget, recruit teachers. Will you turn it into a black magic academy, with the best professors of necromancy and demonology? Or a place in harmony with nature to train druids and shamans? Or why not train adventurous mages, offering them options to learn how to fight and be stealthy? But this will require surviving the ruthless attacks of the orc tribes and the controls of the education authorities.
- Build your university using an original magic decks mechanism. Each game will be unique.
- Access different decks according to the magic taught in your schools. Make choices and take advantage of opportunities to create a unique university.
- Explore the Arcane Deck to access artifacts with strange powers and rooms that defy reality.
- Dive into the Deck of Light to take care of your students and teachers.
- Use the Nature Deck to gain access to a wide range of magical beasts.
- Choose the Alchemy Deck to boost the production of mana and potions.
- Yield to the Shadow Deck to teach real discipline to all those nasty students.
- Manage the well-being of your students by building refectories, dormitories, rest rooms... and ensure their discipline with a dungeon.
- Select your students: traits, personality, alignment, wealth... each aspect is important.
- Push your students towards a glorious future. At the end of their studies, discover their future (necromancer, archimage, peasant...) according to the success of their studies, and win new bonuses.
- Upgrade your rooms with powerful artifacts like the World Tree Wood Table Set or the Soul Eater Bed.
- Fill your school with legendary creatures: dragons, fauns, pegasus, janitors...
- Choose the rules of your school: exemplary punishments, recruitment conditions, organic meals, paying dormitories...
- Choose, through multiple-choice events, how to interact with the different factions of the world.
- Negotiate with the Adventurers Guild. Ask the king for help. Discuss shamanism with the orcs.
- Threaten the Dark Lord. Pretend to listen to the grievances of the staff representative. Lie to the witch hunters.
- Every choice can have short or long term consequences. Be careful before saying “No” to the student delegate!
- Flee from the armies of darkness by building your university in isolated environments: lake, mountain, desert, volcano, giant turtle back, etc.
- Collect powerful grimoires to strengthen your university and face increasingly hostile environments.
- Find new allies to help you in your fight.
- Take advantage of your trained students' bonuses accumulated throughout the campaign.
Spellcaster University — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 2 of 2 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Spellcaster University is a lighthearted wizard school management simulator that players appreciate for its charming silliness, replayability, and "fresh start" progression across levels, though it lacks the depth, complexity, and serious storytelling some might hope for. The game offers enough variety to keep playthroughs engaging and has solid achievement content, but some feel it becomes shallow quickly and lacks meaningful management mechanics like class planning.
There just doesn't seem to be very much.....here? I play the tutorial level. I learn how to put down rooms, and all that. I get some students. I get a couple of quests I can complete that...I think give you more research points maybe? Then you sit there and wait until you have enough resource and you click the button and draft some more rooms or items and play them, and then repeat. That's the core loop. There's a couple of dungeon crawling events that will appear, but if you don't have the random resources they need, you will not be able to access them. The dungeons themselves are rudimentary autobattlers that just net you more resources to buy rooms to place down to make resources. Eventually the timer runs out. You pack up. There doesn't seem to be any negative consequences to not completing quests. You get some starting buffs for the next region that don't really matter. You start in a new region. It has a gimmick that doesn't really impact your gameplay. You chuck down some rooms. You gain resources. You buy more rooms. I've cleared 4 or 5 regions now, at 2 stars (completed quests) each, and I guess I'll see it through to the "end" of this campaign, but it has gotten sta…7 found this helpful
No borderless windowed mode = Bad game Some resolutions cut off menus and make it unplayable at said resolution. Tutorial was awful, would have been better if I went in blind. Don't even know if the game's actual content is good. Checked the store to see if this was an early access game only to find out that not only did it release in 2021, but also has an expansion??? Maybe figure out your UI first.1 found this helpful
Good enough for casual play. Seriously lacks polish and breaks easily if the university gets too big.1 found this helpful
game to play when your boss is not around, or when you're in a boring online meeting
joy
Game is fun and simple yet quickly runs out of content to keep things fresh. A fun game to get on sale but not at full price. Fun to play while having a coffee or studying loses any real entertainment when given proper attention. No consequences for failing objectives and little to no metaprogression, easily coast through objectives with minimal effort.
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