🔮 Mage Mystery: The Quest of the Shattered Realms

An alchemical spin-and-match puzzle game with roguelite build-crafting.

Inspired by games like "Luck be a Landlord", Mage Mystery combines grid-spinning symbol accumulation with strategic relic-building. Spin the alchemical grid, accumulate matching reagents over 3 rolls, and equip powerful passive artifacts to bend the odds in your favor!

🎮 The Gameplay Loop

No complex movement, just pure strategy, risk management, and deckbuilding:

  1. 💎 Mana Offering: Pay a starting mana cost (bet multipliers up to x10 unlockable) to open the grid.
  2. 🎲 Roll & Accumulate: Spin the grid! You get 3 rolls per game. Symbols landed on each roll accumulate in your vials.
  3. 🥛 Vials Success: Match at least 6 identical symbols total across your 3 rolls to fulfill your vials gain a Mana payout!
  4. 🪄 Spell your way: Use a spell at your advantage to provoke your luck.
  5. ⚡ Cosmic Portals: Land on lightning symbols to charge your gauge. Once full, enter the Astral Convergence—a high-reward realm with giant multipliers with no entry cost.
  6. 📦 Relic Hunts: Find chests on the grid to unlock relics that go to your satchel and need to be equip to give there power.
  7. ☀️ Daily Meditation: Connect daily to receive free mana, boosted by daily connection streak and relics.
  8. 🌌 Planisphere Awakening: Spend your mana and harvested ingredients on the Planisphere grid to unlock permanent passive stats and advanced tactical spells.

🗺️ Explore The 7 Shattered Realms

Travel through 7 unlockable islands of increasing cash out, each containing unique alchemical symbols and layout sizes:

  • 🍏 Sylvan Orchard: 1x5 grid, gentle terrestrial flora (Apples, Honey, Bees).
  • 🌊 Sunken Shoals: 2x5 grid, aquatic elements (Sirens, Waves, Tridents).
  • ❄️ Frostbound Peaks: 3x5 grid, subzero icy components (Snowflakes, Ice, Owls).
  • 🏜️ Shifting Sands: 1x6 grid, desert ruins (Camel, Monoliths, Lost Urns).
  • 🍄 Swamps of Decay:  2x6 grid, corrupted swamp reagents (Potions, Lizards, Crowns).
  • 🌋 Cinder Furnace:  3x5 grid, primordial core grid (Magma Blades, Dragons, Flames).
  • ✦ Astral Convergence: Outer space dimension with infinite multipliers.

📜 Grimoire of Deeds (40+ Achievements)

Unlock permanent QoL upgrades! Completing high-tier achievements unlocks rewards like Instant Chest Opening to skip animations and speed up your runs. 

⚙️ Misc.

  • Live Online Leaderboards: Track your Mana Earned, Chests Opened, and longest streaks live on sbox.game profiles via native Sandbox.Services.Stats!
  • Language Support: English and French translation automatically syncs with your s&box client settings.

🚀 Road Map

  • (Added - V1.11) Abyssal Fishing: a early game mini game for when you run out of mana.
  • Sleeping World: new realms to conquer.
  • A Lazy Apprentice: a idle update to automate gathering.
  • (Added - V1.09)Relics Mini-Rework: deck building mechanics.
  • (Added - V1.10)Spell Casting: what will be a mage without spell casting, early and late game focus.
  • Mana Gathering: a mid game addition to make passive income.

👑 Credits & Support

Lead Developer: AVERGO
SFX: JDSherbert
AI Use: AI was utilized during development to assist with coding and design brainstorming.

If you enjoy your journey through the Shattered Realms, please leave a Thumbs Up 👍 to support the game!
And if you have any thoughts, balancing feedback, bug or features suggestions don't hesitate to send me a message on my waywo post "Mage Mystery"  in s&box official channel
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