Spellbound Spire
Released Jun 2020
Go on an immersive VR Journey into a magical tower in Al-Andalus filled with corruption. Progress the tower's mind-bending walkways and reality-altering moments using your magical gloves. Can you solve its mysteries and restore the peace in the tower?
91% positive · 230 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Spellbound Spire is a free-to-play VR game developed by Option 44, a student team at Breda University of Applied Sciences. The game launched on June 23, 2020 as a finished, self-contained experience described as "about an hour-long" from the outset. The release announcement noted the team had been listening to player feedback since beta, and a small bug-fix patch (1.0.1) shipped the day after launch on June 24, 2020, addressing soft-locks and minor issues — with a note promising a slightly larger polish patch covering audio improvements and visual bug fixes in "the upcoming weeks." No further posts appear after that June 24 patch. There are no DLC listings, no season pass, no roadmap, and no developer statements indicating plans for additional content beyond that polish pass. The store description presents the game as a complete, narrative experience. Given the nature of the project — a student-developed game shipped as a finished product — the lack of any post-launch content activity is entirely consistent with the game having been released complete. The developer's communications do not indicate any ongoing or future content development beyond routine post-launch polish.
Evidence
Official 1.0 release launched; developer notes they are 'still listening closely to feedback to further improve the game', suggesting post-launch polish but not new content
Developer describes Spellbound Spire as 'about an hour-long experience' developed over 28 weeks by a student team, positioning it as a complete narrative journey
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Achievements
10
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Location hidden, Al-Andalus, 1205: A wizard has accidentally created a powerful dark corruption that has spread through their tower rapidly.
Your mission is to go on a dangerous immersive journey to restore the peace in the tower. On your journey, you will find a pair of magical gloves that can disable the gravity on an object, allowing you to bring the object to places that seem impossible.
Spellbound Spire is an immersive VR journey where you, the player, explore a magical tower located in 12th century al-Andalus. The tower is filled with different types of locks and keys that are scattered across the environment.
To unlock the mysteries of the tower and solve its challenges you will need to use your magical gloves. These gloves disable the gravity of objects, enabling you to make them fly anywhere you want. Allowing you to continue exploring the tower.
However, this journey is not without danger. The corruption is spreading through the tower and will corrupt anything in its path. Contact with the corruption will disable your gloves' powers, and any object that it touches will immediately be destroyed.
The non-euclidian portals allow for smooth seemingly-impossible movement from one location to another.
By combining non-euclidian level design and room-scale movement we enable you to walk through the entire game in one continuous path while staying safely within the bounds of your playspace. This creates the feeling that you are exploring a large environment while avoiding the shortcomings of other VR movement solutions. However, this will not impede you from exploring intricate areas, impossible geometry, and the other mysteries found within the tower.
Option 44 is a 3rd-year student team studying International Game Architecture & Design Programme at the Breda University Of Applied Sciences.
The project is created over the course of 28 weeks.
We put our love and care into this project and would love for you to try it out.
Feel free to tell us your thoughts on our game in our discord!
Additional Note:
A play area of at least 2m x 2m (6 feet and 7 inches) is required. There’s an option to play within a smaller space of 1.5m x 1.5m, but this is not recommended as it makes for a less stable experience and could cause nausea, which some may experience as unpleasant.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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