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A turn-based roguelike where wizards combine spell effects to battle through enemy-filled rooms, solo or in co-op.
Released 31 Jan 2023
Chain Spell Effects
Teleport Into Combos
Clone Wizard Allies
Spellmasons is a magical, tactical roguelike where you customize your spells. Play solo or team up with your friends in online multiplayer, and explore a deep magic system where clever combinations yield powerfully satisfying results!
Developed by Octavia Blue · Published by Octavia Blue
Spellmasons is a turn-based tactical roguelike about playing a spellcaster through successive battles. You position your character, choose targets, and use magic to defeat enemies while trying to survive increasingly demanding encounters.
Spells can be combined so their effects interact, letting you shape attacks around targets and positioning. Repeatedly casting a spell raises its mana cost, which gradually falls again over later turns; collecting different spells encourages you to adapt your tactics.
Runs offer spell choices, upgrades, and perks to develop a build, while character classes and runes provide different ways to specialize. You can play alone or cooperatively online; co-op uses a faction-based turn system that lets allied players act at the same time. Champion enemies add special modifiers to encounters.
Players who enjoy Spellmasons often highlight the freedom to experiment with spell combinations and the satisfaction of making an improvised build work. Co-op is another recurring draw, with friends coordinating roles and sometimes causing spectacular mishaps. Reviews also describe battles as tactical puzzles, though some find the content loop repetitive, the difficulty uneven, or multiplayer unreliable.
Spellmasons is a turn-based, tactical roguelike where you use your wit to blend spells and create new combinations. You can play solo or with friends in online co-op!
The Spell System is deep and powerful: spells alter each other to allow for tons of creative possibilities. For example: When you cast "Swap" on an enemy, the next spells in the combo will target your original location that you teleported away from so you can link nearby enemies together and follow up with a powerful damage spell that dispatches all of them at once!
Spellmasons rewards variation and creativity: spells get more expensive as you use them, and less expensive as turns pass, so you are encouraged to try new strategies often.
Work together with your friends in online co-op. Save each other from near death or accidentally blow up each other!
Spellmasons features a unique “Faction-based” turn system where you and your friends can take your turn at the same time to keep the action going.
The Rune system adds a whole new layer to your magical potential by enhancing and specializing your magic. If you want to be a Contagious Plague Mage who carries around curses so you can infect enemies wherever you go, you can do that. How about a necromancer who creates copies of himself whenever he teleports and has a random chance to resurrect any enemy that he kills to fight for him? Yup. The possibilities are endless.
Champion-ranked enemies provide an extra special challenge. They have modifiers such as “Growth” which makes them become stronger over time so you need to dispatch them quickly or “Slime” which gives them the ability to clone themselves. Champions will make you think beyond your favorite strategies and come up with something new.
Find clever ways to push beyond your maximum mana to pull off ridiculously powerful spells.
Some spells combine in powerful and unexpected ways and the Discord community is always discovering new secrets.
Spellmasons is a thoughtful, challenging, deliberate turn-based experience. Take your time, think creatively, and watch all of your plans unfold just like your diabolical little heart intended!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| AI disclosure | Some translations and text are AI generated |
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| Website | Official website |
