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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 41.8 hrs on record (28.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: Apr 23, 2016 @ 1:13am

I bought Magicite on sale, and left it in my library for a little while. Once I finally got around to it, I jumped in. Honestly, I expected very little from this game, I don't think I paid any more than five dollars for it, and set my expectations accordingly. Needless to say, I got the amount of enjoyment and satisfaction I expected tenfold. Magicite is a game in which you choose a race, a stat-boosting (or ability granting) hat, a set of traits, and stats and are thrown into a dangerous, procedurally generated world full of monsters and resources for you to collect and craft with along the way. Magicite's crafting system is basic, and short, but not disappointing. I recomend figuring out all the crafting recipes yourself without the use of a guide until you're truly out of ideas in order to keep things interesting. Trust me, discovering new crafting recipes by experiment is immensely more satisfying than 'discovering' them on the Internet. My first adventure was short lived, I quickly discovered that Magicite was a pleasantly difficult game to play by oneself. But the difficulty didn't aggregate me, instead it interested me. I was hooked, they had me. I played my evening and night away. Magicite is also great fun co-op. After I learned a lot more crafting recipes, I told a friend about it. He bought it, and we gave it a whirl. Honestly, I think this game was meant to be played in this way. We switched roles between resource collector and offence, and it worked out so well. We would blow past levels and get farther and farther. Until just recently we made it to the end, and beat the game. I've never paid so little for a game that gave me so much satisfaction, and it's not done. Once you beat the game, you notice that there are many hats, races and companions to be unlocked if you complete certain acchievements, such as "beat the game without chopping a single tree" or "beat the game without killing any monsters" for a budget-priced game, it's got some good replayablility value. Magicite will keep you interested, and having fun, and you'll always feel good about paying so little for it.
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