About
🔮 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:
- 💎 Mana Offering: Pay a starting mana cost (bet multipliers up to x10 unlockable) to open the grid.
- 🎲 Roll & Accumulate: Spin the grid! You get 3 rolls per game. Symbols landed on each roll accumulate in your vials.
- 🥛 Vials Success: Match at least 6 identical symbols total across your 3 rolls to fulfill your vials gain a Mana payout!
- 🪄 Spell your way: Use a spell at your advantage to provoke your luck.
- ⚡ 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.
- 📦 Relic Hunts: Find chests on the grid to unlock relics that go to your satchel and need to be equip to give there power.
- ☀️ Daily Meditation: Connect daily to receive free mana, boosted by daily connection streak and relics.
- 🌌 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