How is the local multiplayer?

[UAFcommander]

I'd like to play this with friends on the TV, is the game suitable for that?

[tarp]

it's a little wonky last time I played, there's no system in place for secretly looking at your spells. and to play a spell on another players turn you need to have them hand you the controls on their turn, and I can't get it to work exactly.

If they had a system in place where you can hold up multiple spells at a button press, and only you know which one is the actual cards, that would be good. I saw the system in Risk for ps2.

And maybe a prompt when spells can be played by another player. Hopefully non detrimental to the flow of the game.

I haven't played in awhile though so I don't know if the issues have been addressed. But anyhow, we were able to stand it and still have a blast.

[Umplebee]

It is very fun to play on one big television! During the early access there was a few issues that did not translate well from online multiplayer to local play, such as viewing spells, looking at cards from the top of a deck and casting counter spells. But all of these have been fixed. The game is very fun with a bunch of friends all on one screen.

The Dev team is as commited to the local play as the online play so if you do happen to find an issue of something not working on local play let them know they have been very quick to try to fix any game issues.

Edit: added this in response to above post:

We play that you simply make everyone look away a second while you look at your cards, not best system but one of only options when everyone is looking at one screen. They have also added a pause button so at anytime you can pause the game and any player can cast spells from his inventory allowing to you counter spells or cast something during another players turn.

[tarp]

Oh nice, didn't realize that stuff had been fixed. I'll have to play a game soon.

[Umplebee]

Remembering now the last local play I did, the Familiar card was not letting you see the spell you drew so you were unable to decide properly if you wanted to draw another spell. Alot of local fixes went through in the last patch so this one might be fixed by now too.

[Kamalot]

I would love an app for mobile phones in which a player could see and manage their cards without other players being able to see.