There is also the ability to build up, so anyone fancying recreating the craziness of the Burrow can live their best life!īut with each room comes the need for educators! You can’t simply hire anyone to teach, but at the same time your options are quite limited, don’t forget. Selecting a classroom allows you to place it, with a tile positioning like mechanic where some areas can’t accept a new room. The cards themselves poses either rooms themselves, allowing you to begin building, or resources and abilities to allow you to expand and improve the lives and the learning of your charges. To do so requires gold to purchase cards from the school deck. Each magic discipline (Light, Shadow, Arcane, Alchemy and Nature) will only generate cards once you are teaching that discipline. You can select cards from a deck from each of the types of mana or one for the school as a whole. One of it’s features is a card based resource game. Spellcaster uses a unique set of twists to set it apart from other management simulation games. But it also means you can make life more difficult for yourself, with the threat of an early arrival from the Lord of Evil! Its a “Mana-gement” sim Pick a card, any card! I really liked this feature for obvious reasons. You are also able to select the difficulty and, interestingly, the length of your game. There are even some locations that would make you think, “I want to build there because… it’s there!” Definitely helps add to the replay value that’s for sure. Each area has its own challenges, but also provides its own unique rewards.

This immediately drew parallels with games such as Theme Hospital. Your first task will be choosing where to build your school. Now as one of the last surviving wizards, it is your job to recruit, retain and reshape the learning of the land. A cyclic battle between good and evil saw the dark Lord play his hand two years earlier, destroying the academic institutions of old. The story behind Spellcaster University is that you were caught in a war that happened too early. The Lord of Evil will return, but will we be ready? A World in Turmoil Location, Location, Location Train your proteges, send them out into the real world and call on them again when you are at your most needy. With a unique take on some of the mechanics, the goal remains similar to other simulation games. Spellcaster University is a crowdfunded simulation game from Sneaky Yak Studio. Let’s dust off the books and open up our review of Spellcaster University. Also, the potions department are currently on strike, the Alchemists have been stealing the lead from the roof and oh yes, the Dark Lord of Evil is on his way again. So here is your desk, your first job will be devising the curriculum for the next decade. Greetings Professor! It’s such a pleasure to have you joining the faculty after that unfortunate run in with the Lord of Evil. Introducing: Spellcaster University Review

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