this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
44 points (97.8% liked)

Gaming

2160 readers
2 users here now

founded 2 years ago
 

I love magic systems in games that feel impactful, and especially love them if the mechanic is unique and different.

What are your favorites?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gonna throw one of my own in here, I recently played an indie title, Mages of Mystralia which allows you to customize spells by adding runes that modify the spells behavior, and can modify elements in the late game.

It has essentially what is a board to build your spells where you have to place and chain the modifying runes by their connection points, which serves as the balancing, and part of the limiting factor of what can be combined and in what order.

Very interesting concept, but unfortunately the game is rather short, so you have very little time to experiment with the spells before the game ends, and while a sequel was announced, it seems the studio may have gone under during COVID.