SpellBook

SpellBook puts you in the robes of a wizard at the Annual Grand Rite, with a familiar at your side and a grimoire in front of you. You collect Materia, use it to learn spells and feed your familiar, and decide each round whether to fire off your powers early or wait and unleash them at full strength. The early rounds use pre-drawn spell sets, but soon spells are drawn at random or combined into pairings that are shared by everyone. Each combination gives an effect that lasts for the rest of the game, and the cleverer the pairing, the stronger it is. With more than 2,100 possible combinations, no two games feel the same. About 45 minutes, solo to four players, best at two.