What Is Spellsanity?
Survive the swarm. Your spells fire on their own, so the game you play is positioning: steer through the horde, dodge what would kill you, and judge when the loot in the middle of a pack is worth walking in for.
Loot that matters. Gear drops with rolled affixes across five rarities. There is a stash to fill, vendors to rescue, and builds worth planning between runs.
A world with a memory. Five realms, an obelisk of permanent choices, and the Ascension: give everything back for more, and the world withers behind you.
How It Plays
Walk, kite, survive
You never click an attack. Spells run on their own cooldowns while you steer the Keeper through the swarm and pick up what the dead leave behind. Standing still is a mistake.
Every level is a choice
Level up and the draft comes: a new spell, a stronger one, or a passive. Max a spell, pair it with the right passive, and it evolves into something that changes how the whole run reads. Reroll and banish are yours to spend.
Loot with real numbers on it
Staffs, robes and charms drop with rolled affixes, five rarities deep. Every piece is shown against what you already carry, gain by gain and loss by loss, so you see the trade before you take it.
Shrines make you decide
Twenty kinds of shrine rise across the realms: fire, time, gold, blood, and the Angels of Fate, who answer a prayer with a blessing or a curse. None of them is a pickup. Take the boon, or leave it standing and take the gold instead.
A home that grows back
Gold survives death. Spend it in the Sanctum, wake the vendors, fill the vault, and turn the ruin you started in into a place worth coming back to.
Permanent choices, carved in stone
The Rune Obelisk spends a slower currency on a branching tree, one region per school of magic. Its nodes are commitments with a cost attached, not filler ranks.
Give it all back for more
Ascend and the meta layer resets into global multipliers. The realms you cleansed come back corrupted by the Withering, harder and richer, and the Keeper comes back a little less human.
The Depths never end
Beat the last boss of a realm and a red portal opens downward. The same ground comes back under a veil, and every floor below is worse than the one above it: thicker waves, harder enemies, richer loot, and a boss called down every single minute.
Every Depths boss wants a price
Drop a boss down there and the run stops for a bargain. Three red cards, one of them has to be sealed: the swarm keeps something for the rest of the run, and so do you. There is no card that only gives.
A board that resets every week
Each realm keeps its own weekly board, split by how much Withering you carried. Your build is on the row next to your score, so the top of the list reads as a list of builds that worked, not just a list of numbers.
The Road to Release
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Now: building the full game
Five realms, the story beats and the meta layer are in. What is left is balance, teaching and polish.
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Next: the Steam page
Store page, trailer and screenshots go up. Wishlists open, and the wishlist button on this page stops being a placeholder.
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Then: a free demo
The first realm from start to finish, with a taste of the meta layer, in time for Steam Next Fest.
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Release: 2027
Windows, macOS, Linux and Steam Deck, in English, German and Simplified Chinese. One price, no early access, no season pass.
About the Dev
I have been programming for over ten years, and one wish sat behind all of it: to put a game on Steam that I am proud of.
It started while I was still learning. I wrote a Doodle Jump clone, and my colleagues kept playing it to beat each other's highscores. After that came my own Super Mario, a Minesweeper, and whatever else I liked at the time. None of it was ever published.
When I started Spellsanity: Wizard Survival, I knew right away that this was the one. This is the game that finally goes on Steam.
Patrick, solo developer, Düsseldorf