Witchcraft U

Witchcraft U is a 200,000-word, entirely text-based interactive fantasy novel set at Larkspur University, a college for witches that began accepting mundane students a few decades ago. You play a first-year Magical Studies major living away from home for the first time, learning spells and making friends while trying to keep your magic secret from your mundane peers, who strangely never seem to notice the witches.

University life

Three secret societies control the university, and all have taken an interest in you. You balance making friends, finding a date, keeping up your grades, holding down a part-time job and proving to your family that you belong. You can rush a society or rebuke them, dress to impress or attend lectures in pajamas, and pursue fulfillment, knowledge, influence or wealth.

Your family also runs an underworld criminal empire, and they draw you back into its affairs. You can inherit the empire or abdicate its throne, while deciding whether to support mundane students or sabotage their plans. Falling behind in your studies can cost you your scholarship, and you must avoid the abyssal gaze of the Campus Squirrel.

Your choices

• Play as male, female or nonbinary, and as gay, straight, bi or asexual.
• Develop your spellcraft in one of four magical tracks.
• Collaborate with classmates, compete against them or hook up with them.