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Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Spellcaster University is a magic, simulation and colony sim game
developed by Sneaky Yak Studio
and published by Sneaky Yak Studio and WhisperGames.
Released on June 15th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 8 languages: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese and Polish.
It has received 3,451 reviews of which 2,864 were positive and 587 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.18€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Spellcaster University into these genres:
Magic
Simulation
Colony Sim
Base-Building
Management
Immersive Sim
Singleplayer
Economy
Choices Matter
3D
Dark Fantasy
Colorful
Indie
Supernatural
Nonlinear
Strategy
Resource Management
Cartoony
Funny
Medieval
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Spellcaster University:
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or better
- Processor: Intel i3-2100 / AMD A8-5600k
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 630 / Radeon HD 6570
- Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X Lion
- Processor: Intel i3-2100
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 630 / Radeon HD 6570
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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If you enjoy somewhat silly or tongue-in-cheek simulation games, the "fresh slate" feeling of starting over in a new level or area while gaining some overall progression, and fantasy and magic, I'd say there's a good chance you'll enjoy this game. If you're looking for something serious, complex, or story-driven, this isn't what you're looking for. Having just won the campaign, it's not likely I'll come back to it any time soon, but I enjoyed my time with it and I could see myself picking it up again in a year (or even a few months, on a higher difficulty) and starting over. It has just enough variety and depth to keep each level interesting and fun.
I'm honestly torn on whether to give a positive or negative review for this. I think I'm leaning positive since it is from a small developer. Is it possible to have fun playing this game? Yes, absolutely. But overall it feels unpolished, especially when you compare the experience to other colony/base building games. I think nearly every feature could use some quality of life improvements to make the gaming experience more fun. My biggest complaint is lack of information. It feels like I'm making most decisions arbitrarily, which makes the game less fun. One example: we are told to provide for the needs of our students and teachers - health, food, sleep, sanity, boredom. We are warned that if students can't fulfill their needs in the school, they'll leave to fix them which wastes time. I would expect the statistics book to give information about this, how many students can the current rooms support? how many students are leaving the school to eat? But that information is not available. It is frustrating that you are essentially "stuck" in any screen that requires you to make a choice - drawing a card from a deck or in the middle of dialogue. You can't check any information that might be relevant for your decision. The dungeon crawler aspect is confusing. It is kinda fun to explore and make choices through the dungeons. But it feels like you have very little control over whether your students live or die, they go from absolutely destroying every enemy to suddenly all 4 die in one combat. But that's just not really my style of game anyway, and at least you have the option to just ignore that feature. I have mixed feelings about the general gameplay loop. Spend a few years building up a magic school, struggle to complete the truly random goals you've been given, and then the evil wizard shows up and you have to start over with a new school. My instinct is to always try to make a great school, optimize everything. But then you have to start over. I can definitely see how that loop would lead it to be highly replayable for some people. But so far for me it has mostly just felt frustrating having so little control over when you abandon each school, especially when I'm in the middle of trying to fulfill the goals. Maybe I should play on an easier setting or something lol Overall, I think I'd suggest trying this game out for yourself. If it seems like something you'd enjoy, you'll definitely get some hours of fun out of it. It is definitely a really cool premise for a game. I do hope the devs continue to make improvements to it. I'm probably going to try it a couple more times to see if I can find a playstyle that works for me. But at the moment I'm feeling kinda neutral on it overall.
One of the most infuriating and best tower-puzzle-colony sims ever made. I love headbutting walls apparently. Get the two mods on nexus that highlight rooms and objects, I can't believe they're not in the game already. This game SEVERLY lacks QoL. There's a lot to this game and every single thing has a use to be min-maxxed. After finally getting a perfect run on archmage difficulty I just about understand the game properly. The tutorial is an info dump, the player memory requirements are huge. What you'll hate - the RNG. A whole mission spamming gold cards and you only have your starting dormitory at the end? Need a herbalism room for a quest and all you get are items and other rooms from beast deck and you never see it until year 14? Runs WILL be killed by RNG. Other runs you'll get a perfect set of rolls and your quests are all complete by year 10 easily. The QoL is trash. Bugs, the game will get stuck on pause often. You'll select a choice and you won't get the cards (seemingly 2x royal banner a lot). When you get seasonal notifications you can't check anything, did you need adventurer XP or peasant right now? Every seasonal has unique choices and rewards you'll want to work to, again that's a lot to remember and you might not even see the ones you want in a mission. What's good? When you know how all the rooms fit together, when you know to wait for the quests, when you know who to select, how to select them, where to place them, when you know how to put it all together, this game is S-tier. There's a LOT going on and it's a non stop churn of options and decisions. The curses and spell books between missions add some nice flavour to a run. The school operation choices are important. Every student is a wall of stats to be allowed and placed or refused. The same with teachers. Everything has a pro and a con to be worked with. It's majestic. The maps play different, different widths and different unique factions which change how you can play a decent amount. The dungeons are really nice but you want a good student setup which almost never coincides with the quests, but the loot from dungeons is extremely strong. It would be better if there were dungeons you could send people into that gave less but some magic XP loot rather than 2 per run. Missed opportunity. Making tank/dps/heal houses is mandatory for this with the appropriate traits, if you can get them (unlikely). I'd play again, will come back and do each of the challenges in time!
I don't think there are many folks out there that have put more hours into this game than me. If you're the type of game player that obsesses over each decision and enjoys doing the same tasks over and over again to find the truly optimal line - this one will speak to all those tendencies. Highly recommend.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Spellcaster University is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
No, Spellcaster University is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 20.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Spellcaster University received 2,864 positive votes out of a total of 3,451 achieving a rating of 8.02.
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Spellcaster University was developed by Sneaky Yak Studio and published by Sneaky Yak Studio and WhisperGames.
Yes, Spellcaster University is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Spellcaster University is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Spellcaster University is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Spellcaster University is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Spellcaster University is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Spellcaster University does not support VR.
Spellcaster University is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 3 DLCs available for Spellcaster University. Explore additional content available for Spellcaster University on Steam.
No, Spellcaster University does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Spellcaster University does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Spellcaster University is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Spellcaster University.
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Developer
Sneaky Yak Studio
Publisher
Sneaky Yak Studio,
WhisperGames
Release
15 Jun 2021
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