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

Become the director of Spellcaster University. Build your university using an original magic decks mechanism. 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.

There's a lot to get your head around here and whilst you can easily grasp the basics after the tutorial and your very first game, it will take quite some time to learn the mechanics.

On the first play through, I was impressed with the graphics and design for a budget game. There's a lot of fun slowly adding to your University as you add new students, teachers and rooms. Will you turn it into a black magic academy? A place in harmony with nature to train druids and shamans? Or something entirely your own?

Become the director of Spellcaster University

Select your students: personality, alignment, wealth... each aspect is important. Discover your students’ future (necromancer, archimage, peasant...) and win new bonuses. Upgrade your rooms with powerful artifacts like the Soul Eater Bed. Fill your school with legendary creatures: dragons, janitors... Choose the rules of your school: exemplary punishments, organic meals, paying dormitories...

Your University will continue to grow until the darkness approaches. There's a bar at the top of the screen to show you how close you are to having to demolish your building and flee the area in order to start all over again. Of course, you can delay the inevitable... but how? That's up to you to discover. Certain actions will set of a chain reaction that will delay the end of the game... but not for ever.

A fun, engaging game that you can revisit time and time again.

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Nick Smithson