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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…

65 23 May 2017

Spellspire is a puzzle developed by 10tons, released 23 May 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.

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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?
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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.

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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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Quick answers

Spellspire — frequently asked questions

When did Spellspire come out?
Spellspire was released on 23 May 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Spellspire?
At minimum, Spellspire needs 1 Ghz, 256 MB RAM, SM 2.0 graphics, 130 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Spellspire?
The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("130 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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