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 alchemical build-crafting:
- 💎 Mana Offering: Pay a starting mana cost (bet multipliers up to x10) to open the grid.
- 🎲 Roll & Accumulate: Spin the grid! You get 3 rolls per game. Symbols landed on each roll accumulate in your cauldron.
- ✨ Spell Success: Match at least 6 identical symbols total across your 3 rolls to forge a Spell and absorb a massive Mana payout!
- ⚡ Cosmic Portals: Land on lightning symbols to charge your gauge. Once full, enter the Astral Convergence—a high-reward realm with giant multipliers.
- 📦 Relic Hunts: Find chests on the grid to unlock permanent passive items to add to your loadout.
🗺️ Explore The 7 Shattered Realms
Travel through 7 unlockable islands of increasing difficulty, 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: Subzero icy components (Snowflakes, Ice, Owls).
- 🏜️ Shifting Sands: Desert ruins (Camel, Monoliths, Lost Urns).
- 🍄 Swamps of Decay: Corrupted swamp reagents (Potions, Lizards, Crowns).
- 🌋 Cinder Furnace: Primordial core grid (Magma Blades, Dragons, Flames).
- ✦ Astral Convergence: Outer space dimension with infinite multipliers.
🎒 The Mage's Reliquary (Relic Build-Crafting)
Collect and equip over 60+ unique alchemical relics across 4 rarities (Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary) to customize your strategy and break the RNG:
- Multiplier Buffs: Boost raw mana returns and daily meditation payouts.
- Arcane Efficiency: Reduce entry costs and accelerate portal charge rates.
- Luck & Fortune: Increase chest discovery rates and unlock bonus roll incantations.
- Arcane Purge: Bag full? Destroy unwanted relics to extract their mana residue.
⚖️ Abyssal Pity System: RNG is fair! Every game played without finding a chest increases your portal resonance. At 30 games, a Cosmic Chest is 100% guaranteed.📜 Grimoire of Deeds (40+ Achievements)
Unlock permanent Quality of Life upgrades! Completing high-tier achievements unlocks rewards like Instant Chest Opening to skip animations and speed up your alchemy runs.
⚙️ s&box Integration
- Live Online Leaderboards: Track your Mana Earned, Chests Opened, and longest streaks live on sbox.game profiles via native Sandbox.Services.Stats!
- Daily Meditation: Connect daily to receive free mana based on planetary alignments.
- Language Support: English and French translation automatically syncs with your s&box client settings.
🚀 Road Map
- 🎣 Abyssal Fishing: A relaxing fishing mini-game to catch aquatic relics.
- 🏕️ Wandering Merchant: Trade surplus mana for rare legendary relics.
- 💤 Sleeping World: New seasonal realms.
👑 Credits & Support
Lead Developer: AVERGO
SFX: JDSherbert
AI Use: AI was utilized during development to assist with coding and design brainstorming.
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