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Lead a squad of heroes through turn-based night battles, then rebuild the haven and its defenses before the next monster wave.
Released 09 Mar 2023
Defend by Night
Rebuild the Haven
Customize Hero Squads
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Developed by Ishtar Games · Published by Nacon, The Arcade Crew, Gamera Games, DANGEN Entertainment
After a magical catastrophe draws monsters to the last human havens, you command a small squad protecting a city while mages prepare a spell to banish magic. Each campaign spans a series of battles and culminates in a boss encounter.
At night, fight incoming hordes in turn-based tactical combat. Position heroes, use weapon-specific attacks and skills, and manage limited action points and resources as enemies approach the city’s Magic Circle.
During the day, spend resources to rebuild the haven, strengthen defenses, and prepare your heroes. Recruit and equip fighters, develop their stats and perks, and adapt your approach across different maps. Runs also offer unlocks and selectable Omens that provide bonuses for future attempts.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its blend of turn-based horde defense and daytime preparation, where weapon choices, perks, and equipment create different squad builds. Reviews also describe tense battles and satisfying victories against bosses, and frequently praise the pixel art and metal soundtrack. Some players find the long runs and repeated restarts frustrating, particularly when a boss’s mechanics are unclear or a late loss erases hours of progress.
In a desperate move to end all wars that have been rampaging the world for decades, the mages provoked The Cataclysm. Massive balls of pure magic obliterated nearly everything. A strange purple mist propagated everywhere, with hordes of bloodthirsty mutants coming at night.
Our only hope is now to banish all magic from this accursed world by casting The Last Spell, requiring several days of uninterrupted incantation whilst a few strained Heroes try to protect those damned mages.
The Last Spell is a tactical RPG with roguelite elements in which you have to defend a city against hordes of deadly enemies.
During daytime, prepare your Heroes, carefully choose how to rebuild your Haven and position your defenses. Over the night, exterminate all the monsters coming at your walls with a large range of weapons and skills. Then heal, level up, and repeat until the Magic Seal is broken.
Turn-Based Tactical RPG:
● The whole RPG package: a flurry of stats, skills, perks, traits… and more.
● Tons of items: armors, weapons, trinkets and potions… with their own stats and skills, as well as optional random modifiers. Each weapon has its own skillset and playstyle!
● Build your own classes: upgrade your heroes with stat bonuses and perks, and equip whatever gear you wish. Want to make a glass cannon rogue/mage fighting with a gun? Do it!
● Manage your squad of heroes: they’re strong, but they are few and have access to limited resources. Healing and mana are scarce, so try to find a good balance.
Hordes of Evil:
● Think and adapt: you will face swarms of deadly enemies with only a few hardened heroes. Optimize your positioning and plan your actions: big AOE attacks, crowd control, buffs, poison... Every Action Point counts towards another day of survival.
● Enemies have strengths and weaknesses that will challenge your wits. And because hard is not enough for us, be prepared for the terrifying Elites!
● Each map will end with epic fights against unique mind-bending bosses.
Protect the Haven:
● Rebuild the city to help you in-between fights. Get healed, forge new magical weapons, get new heroes. Spend your resources wisely, commander!
● Build up your defenses: walls, traps, towers, catapults… every tiny bit of help is welcome.
● Protect the Magic Circle at all costs! If you lose it, humanity is doomed.
● 5 Havens to protect, each with their own setup and challenges requiring you to tailor your strategy to beat the Great Evil.
Roguelite Elements:
● The game is meant to be hard. You will fail… A lot. But every time you do, you’ll grow harder, better, faster, stronger!
● Procedurally generated enemy waves, characters, weapons and a ton of unlockables will keep you entertained until the real world collapses.
● Tailor each run thanks to the Omens: a limited amount of bonuses that can be picked for the upcoming run. Do you prefer more Action Points, more characters, sturdier defenses, better loot? Experiment to find your preferred tools of destruction.
● Scale the difficulty to your liking, with 6 levels of Apocalypse to entertain even the most hardcore players.
Headbanger Soundtrack:
● Over 25 tracks of thunderous synths-driven progressive metal to guide you through this joyous slaughterfest
● Composed by the incredible Rémi - The Algorithm - Gallégo
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 94 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 4 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 82/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
