Spells & Secrets is a deep and motivating rogue-lite experience that invites everyone to this rewarding genre with its adventure story. Free the wizard Academy of Greifenstein from magical creatures by using your spells in creative ways. Play in local co-op with your friends or family, customize...
Spells & Secrets is a deep and motivating rogue-lite experience that invites everyone to this rewarding genre with its adventure story. Free the wizard Academy of Greifenstein from magical creatures by using your spells in creative ways. Play in local co-op with your friends or family, customize your own character, solve mysteries and find powerful artifacts in this modern magical world.
Use the numerous spells in creative ways to fight off magical creatures or to solve puzzles.
If you're tired of venturing alone, ask a friend to join you and discover the world of "Spells & Secrets" in local co-op!
For co-op, two controllers are required.
Dive deep into character customization and unlock more possibilities with a variety of options:
Select a unique body type that represents you best.
Dress in your preferred clothes, offering freedom beyond gender boundaries.
Craft your face from a vast selection: pick your eye color, shape of eyebrows and more, all designed to be gender-neutral.
Your nose and eye shapes adapt based on your facial selections.
Play with hair colors: mix and match up to two shades for a distinctive look.
Find the perfect skin tone from our diverse range.
Accessorize with an array of items to enhance your style.
Adjust height to suit your vision of the character.
Apply makeup that complements your chosen features.
Use your spells creatively against magical creatures or to solve puzzles.
Create your character from extensive options and unlock more possibilities.
Save and help your classmates.
Explore the ever-changing school castle Greifenstein.
Find many clues about the world & its inhabitants.
Improve your character permanently.
Find powerful artifacts and use useful potions.
Play in 2-player local co-op mode.
Experience optimized controller and mouse & keyboard controls.
In “Spells & Secrets”, you are a first-year student of the magic arts, arriving at the Academy of Greifenstein. Set in a world and time like ours, you are excited to live and learn together with your fellow students and professors at the impressive magical castle.
A strange incident on your first day throws the school into turmoil. It’s up to you to save the ever-changing castle and rescue your lost schoolmates. Use your spells creatively to fight off magical creatures, explore the school grounds and uncover the castle’s secrets to reveal the mystery surrounding it.
Also included: the magical music of Spells & Secrets
The music of Spells & Secrets should enchant you as much as the game. That's why our composer, together with other musicians, has produced 45 unique tracks that together are over 180 minutes long (HD MP3).
Tracklist
[6:32] The Order Of Things
[3:50] The Schoolyard
[5:56] First Love
[2:45] It Is In The Light
[1:36] Long Time No See
[5:18] When The Tide Is Out
[2:38] Missing You
[3:15] Falling Leaves
[3:25] Marbles
[2:56] Fishbone Soup
[3:01] Hubbub
[2:21] Diddle Daddle
[3:02] Dark Lessons
[5:02] Lessons
[2:39] Bugs alive
[3:04] Rumpus Rumble
[2:43] Jumble Jive
[3:05] A Fateful Legacy
[6:00] Do The Cleanup
[2:04] Silence
[2:19] The Goofy Dance
[3:10] Hurly Burly
[4:39] Tyrant
[1:36] Final Adventure
[2:57] Smithereens
[3:44] The Crown Pt. I - Eternal Enigma
[4:54] The Crown Pt. II - Twilight Tempest
[4:46] The Crown Pt. III - Bow To The Prince
[4:09] The Lyre Of The Elder
[4:06] Take Your Marks
[3:28] Blossom
[4:57] Wise After All
[2:21] A Mystery Unsolved
[4:39] Hideaway
[3:31] No Trespassing
[1:54] Blue Diamond
[2:14] Treasure Trove
[3:53] The Marketplace
[2:32] Let The Games Begin
[1:38] The Great Escape
[2:01] Nightscape
[1:29] LoFi Love
[1:33] Whispering Goodbye
[1:09] Memories
[4:54] Credits Medley
Published by rokaplay, Developed by Alchemist Interactive and rokaplay. rokaplay and the rokaplay logo are registered trademarks of rokaplay GmbH, Germany. Alchemist Interactive and the Alchemist Interactive Logo are registered trademarks of Alchemist Interactive GmbH, Germany. All rights reserved. Spells & Secrets and the Spells & Secrets logo are registered trademarks of rokaplay GmbH, Germany.
Hades x Harry Potter.
The game is heavily oriented around dungeon crawling and modifying an assortment of spells at your disposal. Each run offering the chance for random upgrades each time.
Pros- creative and fun assortment of spells. Love letter to the Harry Potter franchise that inspires it.
Cons- lots of juggling with spells. Having a huge assortment means upgrades are randomized each run, forcing more management than one can handle.
**minor gripe with dialouge being extremely heavy with exposition at times.
This is an interesting game and fun to play for short periods of time. It is a roguelike game, where you are expected to be defeated and then start a new run over and over, slowly getting further as you unlock more powerful spells and abilities. Combat is straightforward and initially very easy, but as you progress further, you need to start considering different tactics.
There are multiple spells to choose from, and you can swap them out whenever you need to, though you can only have 3 spells and a potion active at one time. Each spell has the ability to be given new abilities with artifacts that you find and can be improved by spending your experience points. You can also tame a companion to help you once you have unlocked the spell for that. Using a good companion can help make the fights easier.
There are many things you can unlock and upgrade throughout the game, which can help to keep the game interesting enough to keep fighting. Boss battles can be challenging, depending which boss you fight and what you have for spells and artifacts. For some of them, using specific tactics can turn a very challenging fight into one that is very easy. Take the time to learn how different spells work and it'll be rewarding.
An entertaining rogue-lite with a fairly light magical tone. I find most of the spells to be creative and I appreciate that potions recharge over time otherwise I absolutely would be hoarding and forgetting I had it.
Only real gripe is that I wish there was more effort put into the story and worldbuilding. It's possible I'm not far enough in yet but it feels like we didn't really set the scene properly before starting the adventure and the hints given by fellow classmates don't feel like natural conversation.
I like the tile system and how every single room has a puzzle, most of which can be solved multiple different ways, yet with solving those puzzles bing entirely optional(killing all enemies in a room, though, NOT optional). There are a lot of good aspects to it, with the constant need to reevaluate your approach based on the artifacts obtained each run.
There's a bit of a lack of depth to matters, IMO, that holds it back from greatness, but it's well worth the play.
During the fight against Vex one of her clones got stuck. I was using levitation on the original Vex and clones appeared as she received the spell. It seams that it's one clone who receive it instead. It stayed frozen mid-air for the whole fight (not doing anything though) and I couldn't deselect it. I managed to finish the fight but then the ending dialogue with Vex was blocked too. I couldn't get to the next lines, nor the menu and ended up forcing the game to shut down.
