Spellspire
Spellspire is a thrilling mashup of word game and action role playing game. Pick letters from a grid to spell words and shoot them from your wand as spells. The longer the word, the bigger the blast! Can you…
Spellspire is a puzzle developed by 10tons, released 23 May 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Spellspire is
Spellspire is a puzzle game developed by 10tons and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Spellspire is a thrilling mashup of word game and action role playing game. Pick letters from a grid to spell words and shoot them from your wand as spells. The longer the word, the bigger the blast! Can you make it to the top of the Spellspire?
How it plays
Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 22 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Spellspire holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 Ghz, 256 MB RAM and SM 2.0. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Spellspire launched on 23 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Injustice 2, Tekken 7 and RiME. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Prey, Injustice 2, Tekken 7, RiME.
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