Spellcaster University

In Spellcaster University, you direct a magic school in a colourful heroic-fantasy world. Build and manage your university, set its budget, recruit teachers and guide students toward their futures. You can specialize in black magic, nature magic or adventurous training in combat and stealth, while dealing with orc attacks and oversight from education authorities.

Build your university

The school is built through a magic deck system, with different decks available according to the magic you teach. Each game offers different choices and opportunities, so your university develops in its own way. You can build in isolated settings such as a lake, mountain, desert, volcano or the back of a giant turtle, and collect grimoires to strengthen the school against increasingly hostile environments.

The decks provide different resources and options:

• Arcane Deck: find artifacts with strange powers and rooms that defy reality.
• Deck of Light: care for students and teachers.
• Nature Deck: gain access to a range of magical beasts.
• Alchemy Deck: increase the production of mana and potions.
• Shadow Deck: teach discipline to unruly students.

Manage students and staff

Choose students based on traits such as personality, alignment and wealth. Their studies shape their futures: when they graduate, they may become necromancers, archmages, peasants or other outcomes, depending on their academic success. Graduates can provide bonuses, which accumulate throughout the campaign.

Build refectories, dormitories and rest rooms to support student well-being, and use a dungeon to enforce discipline. You can upgrade rooms with artifacts such as the World Tree Wood Table Set and the Soul Eater Bed. The school can also house legendary creatures, including dragons, fauns, pegasus and janitors.

Shape school life

Set school rules covering punishments, recruitment, organic meals and paid dormitories. Multiple-choice events let you decide how to deal with the world's factions, with choices that can have short- or long-term consequences. Negotiate with the Adventurers Guild, ask the king for help, discuss shamanism with the orcs, threaten the Dark Lord, respond to staff grievances or deceive the witch hunters. You can also find allies to help in the fight against the armies of darkness.