#leximan

From Gematsu

Wordy adventure game Leximan will launch for PC via Steam on August 13 for $14.99, publisher Marvelous and developer Knights of Borria announced.

A “Digital Deluximan Edition” will also be available for $19.99, which includes the base game, the official soundtrack featuring over 100 minutes of music, and the “Basement Breakout” mini tabletop RPG campaign PDF.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

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.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

Rating: 4/5. Very cute and fun, although not the most challenging, and could use some polish

I think it's pretty obvious that this game was inspired by Undertale. From the music and graphics, to the character designs and writing, to some meta aspects late in the game, I was getting Undertale flashbacks the whole time. But I think it mostly rises above that comparison and stands on its own as a delightful game!

In terms of genre, this game is all over the place. At its core, you interact with the world by spelling out words in a speech bubble. Mostly you just get to spitball, with "enemies" not taking turns or doing any damage to you, although there are a few times when you also have to complete a challenge. Act 2 contains a whole building game. Act 3 is basically a point and click adventure, and then Act 4 randomly becomes a full-on RPG with turn based battles. I didn't mind this genre jumping though, as I found the whole thing very fun. I could have used more challenge, actually, but I wasn't so annoyed with the easy puzzle aspect.

The story of the game is pretty cute. Each act takes place in a totally different environment, which I loved. And the characters are awesome. I really enjoyed getting to know them and seeing them all to their endings.

I also enjoyed that this game has 2 endings - a simple one and a "true" ending. It's pretty obvious how to get the true ending (the game tells you), so it's not very hidden, but I still liked having 2 options for the end of the story.

My only complaint is that the game itself could use some polish. I ran into various bugs and typos, and for the first half the game kept telling me "if the cut scene is broken, click 'fix' in the menu". If you need that in your menu I feel like something has gone very wrong? LOL

So overall, a 4 from me, for a great game that was just shy of perfect.

Cinematech's Trailer Park - Leximan (PC)

Cinematech's Trailer Park - Leximan (Multiplatform)

Marvelous Europe and Knights of Borria have just announced an upcoming narrative adventure game, Leximan, which will be headed to PC via Steam sometime in 2024. A more specific release date has not yet been announced at this time. However, if you’d like to try the game out for yourself, there is currently a demo available on Steam which will only be available for a week. Check it out now while…

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Publisher Marvelous and developer Knights of Borria have announced wordy adventure game Leximan for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024. A demo is available now.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

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.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer