The Magister

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The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way.

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Developer:
Nerdook Productions
Publisher:
Digerati Distribution
Engine:
GameMaker
Release date:
02 September 2021
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (101)

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Description



The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.


Randomly generated murder-mystery: A walkthrough won’t help here! The events, clues, motives, and murderer change with every playthrough. Only YOU can identify the guilty suspect.


Tactical card-based encounters: Your combat and negotiation skills are determined by the cards in your deck. Use a vast array of cards, such as ‘Heartstopper’, ‘Poison Slash’, ‘Weak Joke’, and ‘Long Talk’.


Pacify enemies for a peaceful outcome: Use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ as an alternative to fighting and calm foes with your conversation cards to reduce their Rage level to 0.


Choose your Magister: Different Magisters come with their own specialities and flaws. From cunning alcoholic to intelligent insomniac – every variation defines a different adventure.


Recruit a human ally or furry companion: If needed, a Mercenary, Spy, or Sage can be recruited to assist in your investigation. You can also befriend one of the local cats or dogs to fight by your side in battles.


Set in a captivating fantasy world: You have 14 days to wander Silverhurst and befriend or intimidate its inhabitants as you race against time to unmask the murderer.

Developed by Nerdook

Monster Slayers, Reverse Crawl, Vertical Drop Heroes

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7 or newer
Processor:
Processor 2 GHz (Dual Core)
Memory:
256 MB RAM
Graphics:
OpenGL 2.1 compatible 3D graphics card with 256 MB VRAM
DirectX:
Version 9.0
Storage:
40 MB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

raven
Recommended | 21 Sept 2024
22.7h played

I enjoyed it and don't regret getting it, but also felt a bit misled by some of the other reviews and alleged properties of the game. It was suggested that it's "roguelike replayable" with generated stuff, but really

Helpful: 25
QuiteRight
Recommended | 23 Aug 2024
56.0h played

Magister is a game with 200% replayability, because no matter how well you know it, each run is brand new. I wish all CRPGs would someday be procedure-generated. The only downside is that you can't get back to the

Helpful: 5
Yakoumis
Recommended | 04 Oct 2024
10.3h played

Just to get thing straight, it's not a roguelike that you'll sink in hundreds of hours. It's a well crafted crpg type of game, where the randomized traits of the magister + the randomized battles + the randomized traits

Helpful: 5
Bropide
Recommended | 15 Aug 2024
32.8h played

It's a really interesting game, I didn't realize how much so at first. It seems pretty straightforward at lower difficulties. But as you get higher, the game begins randomly locking various skills, forcing you to take

Helpful: 4
Kallune
Recommended | 04 Aug 2024
29.9h played

Simple Time and Resource management game. Combat is difficult until you buy a Pet or recruit an Ally (you can have both), then it becomes easy to very easy even in higher difficulties. Tactical Diplomacy always felt

Helpful: 4
Silurean
Recommended | 04 Oct 2024
14.3h played

My first play through took about 6 hours and it was very enjoyable. It was fun to go on all the side quests and gather the details to solve the murder mystery. I ran through it twice more (each time faster than the time

Helpful: 4