Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a party-based adventure in which you control four heroes exploring the shattered world of Solasta. Create each hero by choosing their race, class and personality, and rolling their stats. Their skills complement one another, their personalities shape their dialogue, and your choices help shape the story, while dice determine the outcomes.

Story and world

Explore ruins and long-forgotten dungeons for legendary treasures and ancient artifacts. Learn the truth behind an age-old cataclysm and try to stop it from happening again. Light and darkness affect what happens underground: many dangers lurk in the dark, some enemies have darkvision, and others may flee from your torch. You can use these conditions to your advantage.

Tactical combat

Combat is squad-level, turn-based and tactical. Roll for initiative, make attacks of opportunity and manage your party’s positions across a vertically varied battlefield. Climb, jump or fly around obstacles, attack from above or below, take high ground, push enemies into chasms or drop objects on them. The environment can also change the fight: bridges can collapse and strand enemies, while walls and columns can be pushed onto foes.

Size and terrain matter outside combat as well. Smaller heroes can pass through narrow passages that larger enemies cannot, crawl through tunnels to find secret areas and use cover suited to their size. Enemies can also take advantage of vertical terrain.

Create your party

Build a party to suit your preferred strategy and make the most of its combined abilities. Character creation follows classic tabletop RPG conventions, with choices for race, class and personality alongside rolled stats. The heroes’ personalities are reflected in their dialogue, and each action and conversation choice contributes to the adventure.

Dungeon Maker

After the campaign, you can use the in-game Dungeon Maker to create dungeons to play and share with friends. You decide the room layouts, monsters, treasures, decorations, lighting and music. The tool also includes town interiors and exteriors, plus systems for quests, dialogue and custom loot tables. A campaign creator lets you bundle custom dungeons into campaigns with custom monsters, NPCs, merchants and items.

Multiplayer and updates

Online co-op is available for the official Crown of the Magister and Lost Valley campaigns, Primal Calling content, and custom campaigns made with the Dungeon Maker.

Updates have raised the level cap from 10 to 12, adding new class features and level 6 spells. They also added scars and facial paint options for character creation, the option to skip the tutorial, spellcasting chants and an additional casting animation, and two crafting feats for making potions and magic items. The surprise system now uses individual perception checks for each surprised enemy, and the fight at the end of the campaign has been rebalanced to be harder.