Spellcaster University
Sneaky Yak Studio · 2021 · Magic, Simulation, Colony Sim, Base Building, Management
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About Spellcaster University
✦ AI summary
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.
DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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This is a fun and cute game. It gives me nostalgia because it makes me think to back in the day when I used to play a game called Theme Hospital. I think it is called 2 Point Hospital now. It cartoony, it's fun. The campaign lets you carry over certain attributes or items when you start a new map after the current school gets invaded the the bad wizard. Definately give this game a try.
While charming at first, the game fails to be either a campaign-builder or roguelike-sim-- in fact the elements work against each other at most junctions. Lots of shallow mechanics, incredibly limited control, obtuse information; even if you like the ideas presented actually playing the game is a bit of a mess. Also, everything is incredibly aesthetically lacking, especially once your school inevitably turns into a brick.
An addicting game that makes you want to come back and experiment. Definitely a fun take on a colony game and a deckbuilder!
This is such a fun little game!! Exactly the kind I was looking for. Just complex enough to be engaging, but simple enough that it's something I can sort of mindlessly play as I eat or wind down for bed. Definitely recommend it!
Fun because of the unique game mechanics. Would be better if it wasn't that easy and more challenging.
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