SPELLCASTER UNIVERSITY REVIEW

I was given a PS5 code from Publisher, Developer Red Art Games @RedArtGames

This is released in the UK on the 2/5/2025 and in the UK is priced at £15.99.

INTRODUCTION

Develop a prestigious university of mages, build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget, a directors life is not a quiet one.

FEATURES

• EXPLORE MAGIC
• Build your university using an original magic decks mechanism. Each game will be unique.
• Access different decks according to the magic taught in your schools. Make choices and take advantage of opportunities to create a unique university.
• Explore the Arcane Deck to access artifacts with strange powers and rooms that defy reality.
• Dive into the Deck of Light to take care of your students and teachers.
• Use the Nature Deck to gain access to a wide range of magical beasts.
• Choose the Alchemy Deck to boost the production of mana and potions.
• Yield to the Shadow Deck to teach real discipline to all those nasty students.
• TRAIN YOUR STUDENTS
• Manage the well-being of your students by building refectories, dormitories, rest rooms… and ensure their discipline with a dungeon.
• Select your students: traits, personality, alignment, wealth… each aspect is important.
• Push your students towards a glorious future. At the end of their studies, discover their future (necromancer, archimage, peasant…) according to the success of their studies, and win new bonuses.
• CUSTOMIZE YOUR SCHOOL
• Upgrade your rooms with powerful artifacts like the World Tree Wood Table Set or the Soul Eater Bed.
• Fill your school with legendary creatures: dragons, fauns, pegasus, janitors…
• Choose the rules of your school: exemplary punishments, recruitment conditions, organic meals, paying dormitories…
• INTERACT WITH FACTIONS
• Choose, through multiple-choice events, how to interact with the different factions of the world.
• Negotiate with the Adventurers Guild. Ask the king for help. Discuss shamanism with the orcs.
• Threaten the Dark Lord. Pretend to listen to the grievances of the staff representative. Lie to the witch hunters.
• Every choice can have short or long term consequences. Be careful before saying “No” to the student delegate!
• FIGHT AGAINST DARKNESS
• Flee from the armies of darkness by building your university in isolated environments: lake, mountain, desert, volcano, giant turtle back, etc.
• Collect powerful grimoires to strengthen your university and face increasingly hostile environments.
• Find new allies to help you in your fight.
• Take advantage of your trained students’ bonuses accumulated throughout the campaign.

FAN ART

Art style is nice and detailed and can even zoom to watch what happens in the classes.

Difficulty options are nice and offer alot of options to suit everyone.

Choices all offer own rewards and is nicely explained before you make choice.

Factions all have own pros and cons to using them.

Schools, Magic offer own perks, rooms, staff own uses, perks.

Can be daunting as alot to learn.

Can be fiddly on a controller.

No real story connection with people made me not care and can change them often.

OVERALL SUMMARY

Overall art style is nice and detailed with alot of difficulty options that are nice and suit everyone with choices offer own rewards, factions, rooms, staff all have own uses, look. However for £15.99, can be daunting as alot to learn and manage can be a bit fiddly on a controller and no real story connection with the people made me not care or be connected with them and can change them often.

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Art style is nice and detailed.
Difficulty options nice suit everyone.
Choices offer own rewards.
Factions own pros, cons to using them.
Schools, magic offer own perks, rooms, staff own uses, perks

Can be daunting as alot to learn.
Can be fiddly on a controller.
No real story connection with people made me not care and can change them often. 

Here is video footage from my videos of me playing this on my PS5 then uploading to my YouTube channel link below.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GRIMREAPERSAGE

VIDEO REVIEW

https://youtu.be/K-XzAnHWRP8?si=O0EHOO7SCdb7pG7x

PLAYLIST

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL3AM1kazFPwXQ0pGTI8EVLHNHxpMU3u4&si=_Ru0nfcFpF4LZqWg