#Spellcaster university metacritic full#
#Spellcaster university metacritic plus#

I know that looking at the headteacher’s room is nice- you’ll get to see additional trinkets and stuff manifested as decorations that’ll get added over time- but I would much prefer not to have them in favour of direct access of the two submenus inside this room from the game screen.Īs for the soundtrack, Spellcaster University has some good selections of original music that fits its fantasy theme well. I spent too many times just waiting for the tooltip to tell me which button is which as I can’t distinguish which book is for which menu.Īccess to adjusting your schools’ rules is also tucked behind too many layers for my liking.

The use of books on a bookshelf as buttons for some other options like access to stats, the headteacher’s room and… options… look nice but practically cumbersome. Grabbing cards from the rightmost side of the hand when you have an overflow of cards feel wonky. When you have too many cards in your hand, the handling of overflowed cards is a bit finicky. I do find some areas of the UI can still be improved. It’s the only building card that I have trouble parsing what it needs before you can place them, the others are much clearer by comparison.) (Though placing gazebos is weirdly finicky and unclear.

#Spellcaster university metacritic plus#

All you need to know about what the card does are all there in one glance plus one click. Hovering on them shows more text, but you can toggle back to the other side of the card with a right-click, which is nice. Building cards show an outline of what the building shape will be, and you can see where the floor is connected, how big it is and other helpful stuff.

#Spellcaster university metacritic full#

Spellcaster University relies on cards for its gameplay (more on that later), and thankfully the card format is being made to full use in presenting information. Or turn the human ones into vampires if you like. You may get students of different species, like werewolves and half-orcs, to come study in your prestigious academy. Students can also come from all walks of life. The teachers may have quite the visible round belly you could fit in a pumpkin, and the students may get into shenanigans turning their heads into pumpkins. You can distinguish your teachers and students, each can have weird visible quirks. The art style is cartoony and simple, but also very readable. You will see this in the scenery area, where the students and teachers will not just move side-by-side. Spellcaster University will have you build wizards schools that you only view one side of a 2D plane, but all the characters and items in the game world are rendered in 3D. Presentationīut let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

So, do you think you can do a better job at running your own school for aspiring mages in a medieval fantasy world, as the headteacher? That’s what Spellcaster University, a building/strategy game from indie devs Sneaky Yak Studio, is supposed to be.īut there’s an unlikely twist in this magical tale. The boarding school life some of us dreamed of having but have the classes be about levitating feathers for no practical reason instead of deriving equations for no practical reason. The rewards are great but not my favorite out of the others - the Hermit crab improves teachers and the plane telescope increases lengths of study, which can help if you like to do the dungeons or go for archemages.The fantasy of a wizarding world. The rewards are more niche, though - focusing on Heroism and Beast Magic. The armed chest helps with Enchantment which is good for dungeons, but the spider is best here.Ī difficult challenge with good rewards. The easiest challenge, and has two great reward cards - the astral clock which helps with student's needs, and the harp, which prevents aberrations.Įasier challenge with an excellent reward - the Criticality prism which gives knowledge bonuses to students, and the Cornucopia is decent as well.Ī mid-level challenge that has one of my favorite rewards - the shadow-weaving spider that generates the resource you need most. Based on difficulty I suggest to go in this order, in terms of difficulty and rewards: