The Fool's Apprentice

The Fool's Apprentice is a magic school simulator in which you play Arcanist Tharn, a mage from a prestigious family, and run the Arcane Conservatory in the canal city of Golryon. You manage apprentices, direct their studies and shape the future of magic and science in a new age of arcanoscience.

Run the Conservatory

Enroll apprentices and manage their skills, studies and safety. You can cast spells on them to levitate or toss them around, control or wipe their minds, and send them through portals to other worlds. You also choose fields of magical study, build arcane workstations with varying risks, effects and difficulty, and decorate the Conservatory with cosmetic items and decorations that have eldritch power.

Build Research to upgrade workstations and unlock new sciences. You can kidnap citizens for experimentation, but must also steer apprentices away from accidental death and keep them within the curriculum—or defy the Conservatory and spread magic among the people.

Shape Golryon's future

The narrative follows the demands of Golryon's magocratic city. Choices made in response to dilemmas shape the future of mankind: the Conservatory might be asked to increase elemental cannon production one day, while the Duke might demand that you teach magic to a distant cousin the next. Scientific advances can earn public support, but withholding all magic from the people may lead them to riot. You also risk imprisonment for criminal arcane malpractice.

A new age of magic

Arcanoscience and related fields of mago-mechanical study have emerged, bringing engineering marvels made with spellcraft and ingenuity. The Conservatory trains the next generation of apprentices in this changing world. The game is set in The Planar Danse, a connected universe that also includes Apollyon, Skulltide and Spirit's Almanac.

The game is endlessly replayable, and all unlocks can be earned in about 8 hours of play.