Marvelous Europe and developer Knights of Borria announced that Leximan, a game we first heard about last year during the Guerilla Collective Showcase, is set to release on August 13th for PC via Steam.
Leximan was one of six games that RPGFan was hands-on with back in December, where Mario Garcia called it “charmingly bizarre in its humour”. More from Mario:
To cast a spell in battle, the player drags letter combinations from a pool of letters together to form a word. This system brings a ton of potential to combat, as forming different words can mean the player has a range of options for approaching an encounter.
Check below for Leximan‘s original release trailer as well as an overview of the game via Steam.
Leximan Overview
In a stroke of good fortune, you’ve enrolled in the world’s most exclusive magic school: Academy Elementinia. But on the downside, this is a world in which magic is a bit embarrassing.
Still, you’ve got something special. You alone have the ability to use Leximancy, a hitherto unimaginable power driven by something as fascinating as it is enchanting: language.
Leximancy is an endlessly fun branch of magic, but it is also a risk of buttock-clenching magnitude. Years ago you caused THINGS to happen, and ever since then you’ve been banished to the school basement with the other failures- I mean learners.
Your life as a humble basement-wizard is interrupted as Academy Elementinia is attacked by someone with a baffling agenda and a huge set of fireballs.
Don your trusty hat, ready your lexicon, become the outcast that saves the school. Or if you don’t vibe with heroics, at least cause some more THINGS to happen. After all, you’re out of the basement now. Let’s see what you can do.
HOW TO BE LEXIMAN
BE WORDY. Cast Leximancy spells in a unique word-based encounter system, snatching word fragments from thin air to spell out clever incantations.
BE YOU. Unravel a surprisingly wholesome story about embracing and empowering the real you. I say “surprisingly wholesome”, because there’s also a bit where you kick a trout.
GO ROGUE. Use your utter hooligan of a brain to figure out words, puzzles, and a variety of minigames. Summon. Soothe. Enlarge. Enrage. Explode. Have a little sleep. Succeed strangely, or sit back and enjoy your failures. There are hundreds of different ways to play this game, and the best way is your way.
GO EXPLORE. It’s an absolute situation out there. The magical wilds are delirious with magic, the people of the cities hate wizards like you, and there are prisons. Wizard superprisons.
MAKE FRIENDS? Bother a chaotic cast of characters, from potion witches and sweaty musclemancers, to a bombastic policewoman and a pyromancer who’s just fed up to be honest.
GET HATS. Give hats to the hat goblins, please and thank you.
Embark on a brilliant adventure, using words and incompetence to solve bizarred problems!
Coming to PC via Steam, August 13th 2024.
Looking to be a standard edition wizard? The base game will be run you $14.99 USD. More of a Digital Deluximan Edition kind of wizard? That version will be available at launch for $19.99. Regardless of which version of wizard players see themselves as, they may indeed want to wait until August, as a 10% discount will be available for both versions on the week of launch.
Leximan is set to release August 13th on PC via Steam.
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