SpellRogue

SpellRogue

Released Apr 2025

SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.

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Evaluation

SpellRogue launched into its full 1.0 release on April 24, 2025 after an Early Access period, bringing a fourth playable character (Sefyra the Windcaller), a new final act and true ending, daily challenges with leaderboards, 108 new spells, and extensive system overhauls. Post-launch, the developers continued shipping substantial content. On June 25, 2025, they released update 1.1.0 — "The Sacred Beast Awakens" — adding a new Act 2 boss (the Divine Scarab), 21 new artifacts, 4 new runes, 21 new mutators, 11 new achievements, new music tracks, new daily challenge modifiers, and a rework of the Descent difficulty system. A hotfix followed on June 26, 2025, and on July 21, 2025, update 1.1.1 delivered a focused balance pass and additional bug fixes. These two major post-launch content drops establish a cadence of roughly two months between significant updates. The gap between the 1.0 launch (April 24, 2025) and the 1.1.0 major update (June 25, 2025) was approximately two months. The last developer communication of any kind was on July 21, 2025 — roughly 14 months before today's date of October 1, 2026. That 14-month silence is well beyond the established two-month cadence between major releases, and also exceeds the six-month ceiling for the silence threshold. However, the developers have made no statement about development concluding, no "final update" post, no studio distress signal, and no announcement of a definitive or complete edition. The game has only two major post-launch content milestones, which is a thin pattern, and the silence could reflect the team working on a larger, unannounced update rather than the end of development. Given the absence of any closing statement and the relatively small number of data points, the pattern is not conclusive enough to declare the game complete, but the extended silence does weaken the active development signal. The assessment remains that substantial updates have been shipped and no conclusion has been announced — but readers should be aware the developer has been publicly quiet since July 21, 2025.
Evidence
Update 1.1.0 shipped with a new Act 2 boss (Divine Scarab), 21 new artifacts, 4 new runes, 21 new mutators, 11 new achievements, new music, and a rework of the Descent difficulty system.
news post · Jun 25, 2025 source content shipped
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SpellRogue 1.0 launched with a new playable character, final act, true ending, daily challenges, 108 new spells, and extensive overhauls.
news post · Apr 24, 2025 source content shipped
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Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Ghost Ship Publishing
Achievements
78
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Dice Gameplay

Master the art of dice manipulation and wield powerful spells in SpellRogue, a turn-based deckbuilding roguelike where every roll shapes your fate. Control the fickle Mana Dice by rerolling, duplicating, splitting, flipping, and enchanting them with special effects. Bend luck to your will and unleash devastating magic!

Deep Tactical Combat

Engage in battles with enemies directly disrupting your spells and dice:

🍄 Twisted mushrooms infect your spells with spreading debuffs.

🔥 Fiery elementals ignite your spells, making them dangerous to cast.

💀 Cursed Voidbringers doom your Dice to roll poorly and destabilizes spells.

Adapt, strategize, and turn the tide in your favor!

A World Consumed by the Void

The Voidbringers have unleashed meteors of corruption, warping your once-peaceful world into a land of ravenous horrors. Journey through the Deadwoods, Scorched Desert, and beyond, track the source of this arcane blight, and purge the creeping darkness before it consumes everything.

Dice Slingers & Magic

Meet the Dice Slingers, each wielding a unique elemental mastery and distinct ways to manipulate and control their Mana Dice.

  • Azar the Cinder Conjurer: Fueling the flames with his burning blood, he ignites small embers into raging infernos, unleashing devastating fire upon his foes.

  • Hazel the Earthen Mage: Shaping the flow of life, she grows Mana Dice to incredible strength or withers foes to dust. The very earth bends to her will, rising to bolster her power.

  • Lapis the Azure Seer: A master of the tides, he commands the currents of Mana Dice, conjuring unyielding defenses, drowning foes in poison, and calling forth crashing waves of raw power.

  • Sefyra the Windcaller: Wielding the wrath of a storm, she weaves the winds to align her spells in perfect harmony, and summons lightning to smite her enemies (Coming in 1.0).

A Grand Adventure with Elegant Complexity

  • ✨ 350+ spells, each with two upgrades and unique animations and art.

  • ⚔️ 75+ enemies, each with unique abilities to challenge your strategy.

  • 💰145+ artifacts to shape and refine your build.

  • 🎲 Prove your mastery by boosting the difficulty with the Descent system.

  • 🏆 Take on Daily Challenges with ever-changing twists.

  • 🏹 Battle through 3 acts to confront the Voidbringers, and uncover the truth!

Last evaluated Oct 1, 2026
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