Mind Over Magic

Solid base management and party-based gameplay lacking in some QOL and mechanical depth. PROS: Creative build synergies, interesting construction challenges, and no need to micromanage resources. The normal difficulty is satisfying, and leaves enough room for error to mess up some mechanics. I never felt the need to start a new run after screwing up and letting a mage die, while still feeling pressured to calculate every risk I could. It remains casual enough to avoid stress, and retains enough obstacles to strain your resources if spent unwisely. Some examples of which are the decor requirements and room modifiers. Every flavor of station felt different - the lightning classroom needing to be towered or the windy pinnacle needing to be elevated. Build synergies were fun to explore, since each school of magic had practically no overlap in their niche and utilities. My favorites were a Deathcurrent Wolfkin dishing out buffs and cleansing terrain or a Steam Shattered Sorcerer, pumping 1k damage, or Seedsower human effortlessly negating enemy action economy by bolstering my own. Enemies usually have one very debilitating status effect that you have to plan your comps aro…

Fantastic game!

Just got it. I'm obsessed.

Quite good. Pretty deep gameplay. Much of the appeal of Don't Starve or Oxygen Not Included, but I find this a bit more enjoyable perhaps because of the base building aspects. Months of play to be had in this game, I'm pretty impressed... definitely deserving of more attention than it's gotten so far. Particularly fun going into October, there's a bit of a halloween "Nightmare Before Christmas" vibe to this title. Glad I bought it.

Unique and fun combo of colony sim/resource management, RPG and turn based combat. It's not perfect but I had a lot of fun.

the gameplay loop is superb, if youre into that sort of thing