


(Though placing gazebos is weirdly finicky and unclear. All you need to know about what the card does are all there in one glance plus one click. Hovering on them shows more text, but you can toggle back to the other side of the card with a right-click, which is nice. Building cards show an outline of what the building shape will be, and you can see where the floor is connected, how big it is and other helpful stuff. Spellcaster University relies on cards for its gameplay (more on that later), and thankfully the card format is being made to full use in presenting information. Or turn the human ones into vampires if you like. You may get students of different species, like werewolves and half-orcs, to come study in your prestigious academy. Students can also come from all walks of life. The teachers may have quite the visible round belly you could fit in a pumpkin, and the students may get into shenanigans turning their heads into pumpkins. You can distinguish your teachers and students, each can have weird visible quirks. The art style is cartoony and simple, but also very readable. You will see this in the scenery area, where the students and teachers will not just move side-by-side. Spellcaster University will have you build wizards schools that you only view one side of a 2D plane, but all the characters and items in the game world are rendered in 3D. Presentationīut let’s not get ahead of ourselves. So, do you think you can do a better job at running your own school for aspiring mages in a medieval fantasy world, as the headteacher? That’s what Spellcaster University, a building/strategy game from indie devs Sneaky Yak Studio, is supposed to be.īut there’s an unlikely twist in this magical tale. The boarding school life some of us dreamed of having but have the classes be about levitating feathers for no practical reason instead of deriving equations for no practical reason.
