Magicraft launched at the beginning of this month, and it’s absolutely amazing. You play as a nerd who gets sucked into another world while in the toilet, and then you pull a legendary wand out of the floor and away you go. It’s hardly a new story, but it’s not about the story.
In fact, Magicraft almost isn’t even about the gameplay. It’s basically a twin-stick shooter in a roguelike fashion. You gain new spells and wands as you go, and also gain modifiers to those spells. Plus, wands can have different mana totals and regen rates as well as other passives too.
You can, for example, find a magical snake spell that seeks out enemies and deals a few hits of minor damage. This isn’t bad on its own, but if you throw in a spell that allows it to poison enemies, then one that lets it split into three once the spell ends, and then a modifier that makes it more aggressively seek enemies out, then suddenly you have a really potent spell.
You can unlock permanent upgrades too, like gaining more wand slots. While you could theoretically swap between different wands for different situations, there are also modifiers that let your wands fire on their own, or have a chance of casting spells when you use other wands.
Add all this together and you’ve got a really satisfying challenge that can be bashed against some of the most absurd-looking magic spells you’ve ever seen in games. There’s also a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure reference in one of the character skins which is great.
Plus, Magicraft is only in Early Access at the moment, which means that it’s only going to get better and gain more levels, more difficulties to enjoy, and probably more spells and enemies too. Please check this game out, it’s absolutely amazing.
