Tome Rush

Tome Rush is a wizard-management game about assembling a team to retrieve powerful tomes before an evil organization can use them to dominate the world. You guide the wizards’ development and choose who to send on randomly generated missions, where the outcome is out of your control once a mission begins.

Build your team

You begin with three wizards who have no specialty in magic. Each wizard chooses three types of magic they are interested in, and you select one; every spell they learn comes from that type. When a wizard levels up, they choose four spells they are interested in, and you pick one. Each wizard can learn only seven spells.

At levels two, four and six, wizards gain compatibility with another wizard’s type of magic, which lets them go on missions together. Wizards choose three types for this compatibility, and you choose one. Completing missions lets you recruit more wizards, who develop in the same ways.

Choose missions

Mission sites have varied objectives and call for different strengths. Some require wizards to defeat enemies, while others call for exploring a dungeon and collecting artifacts. As your team gains experience, learns spells and forms compatible partnerships, you must account for each wizard’s strengths and weaknesses when assigning missions.

Missions are risky: unprepared wizards can die permanently. Careful planning and a balanced, cooperative team improve your chances, but mission outcomes are no longer under your control once they begin.

Secure the tomes

The forces of evil are collecting tomes to help them dominate the world. Tomes sometimes appear at mission sites, where you can send wizards to retrieve them. If you or your enemy collects all five, a challenging final mission begins.

Magic and spells

The game has seven types of magic, each with over 25 spells. Since each wizard can learn only seven, you need to choose spells that fit their abilities and role. Planning, strategy and luck shape a blend of Solitaire and deck building.