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Maintain wide movement loops using WASD because casting does not root your character in place.

Collect purple motes dropped by defeated enemies to replenish energy and prevent spell lockouts.

Draw a physical circle around your mage to open upgrade cards, holding unspent levels for bonus XP.

Equip up to five active spells simultaneously from a selection of twenty unique elemental evocations.

Perks allow small sigils to increase spell attack rates while expansive glyphs boost area damage.

Combine elemental spells like Thunderstorm and Frost Nova to freeze and shatter swarming enemies.

Turn off Microsoft Ink in tablet driver settings to prevent missed pen strokes and cursor offsets.

Use time slowdown, time freeze, or button-press casting modes to adjust gesture difficulty.

Non-display graphics slates offer fast angular strokes without your hand obscuring approaching foes.

Spend harvested Anima between combat runs to unlock permanent character attributes in the manor.

Flip Tarot cards between upright and reversed orientations to swap defensive and offensive traits.

Concoct potions at cauldrons, unlock helpful familiars, grow gardens, and visit Odds to wager chips.

Steam features twelve unlockable achievements tied to vendor interactions, fishing, and combat feats.

Unlock all six playable mages by securing successful Leviathan extractions on each character.

Earn a profile achievement upon meeting Odds the gambler for the first time in the manor hub.

Addressed Steam Deck controls, secured save states, and eliminated endless tutorial loops.

Resolved accidental extractions, tuned Exsanguinate radius, and restored missing achievements.

Planned updates will fix procedural generation dead ends across worlds three and four.

Accept high-risk modifiers from Odds to boost run stats, such as heavy burn bonuses.

Toggle Slow Time or Freeze Time in settings to remove time pressure while drawing glyphs.

Avoid burning enemies simultaneously with Poppet curses to prevent triggering unkillable mobs.

The game requires 500 MB of disk space on Windows and Mac, expanding to 2 GB on Linux systems.

A minimum of 4 GB RAM is required across all platforms, with 8 GB recommended for PC.

Runs on DirectX 10, 11, or 12 capable graphics hardware on Windows, and Metal on macOS Big Sur.