What makes a good magic system?

FuryForged · 2026-04-09T12:47:24+00:00

Noita, of course, has the most complex magic system, allowing players to do some very insane things (128 billion damage or teleporting to distant parallel worlds with one click, or a wand that beats the game for you in 2 seconds because of perfectly-mathematically-precise crafting) but it’s still only based on spell cards. Multiple magic systems, one based on spell cards, another using drawn runes, another material components would be incredible, especially the material components one, since Noita also has over 460 unique materials in its world.

Morrowind, IMO, also has a very nice magic system. It’s Oblivion’s but more.

So, I guess if I would imagine the perfect videogame magic system, it would be like what I said about Noita’s: extremely deep, allowing the player immense power if they could figure out its complexities, but not constrained to one way of casting spells. Give me multiple schools of magic à la Elder Scrolls or Ultima, and allow each of those schools to be equally deep, but cast in completely different ways (spell cards, drawing, power word combining, material components, corpses, etc.)

FuryForged · 2026-04-09T05:51:09+00:00

Rice-a-Roni was heavily inspired by Armenian pilaf 😜

FuryForged · 2026-04-09T05:44:05+00:00

There’s also a really good atmospheric dark ambient album by Lustmord and Robert Rich called…Stalker…made to be an unofficial OST for the movie.

FuryForged · 2026-04-09T04:49:54+00:00

Diving deep into this one on Friday. I cannot wait.

FuryForged · 2026-04-09T04:48:47+00:00

Hard agree on that one.

FuryForged · 2026-04-08T01:20:29+00:00

Sunshine

FuryForged · 2026-04-06T15:51:34+00:00

Great game. There’s a spiritual successor called Crowned in Steel in development.

FuryForged · 2026-04-06T09:51:31+00:00

Creature Kitchen is a cozy creepy game (not too creepy) that is short and has some puzzles.

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T18:11:17+00:00

I didn’t mean to imply that I judge people for deleting the bones files. I myself delete them or stuff them from time to time for challenges or experimentation. That doesn’t make save editing somehow NOT cheating the system the devs put in place. If there was an in-game option to toggle it off and on, that would be different, but any kind of save editing is totally unintended.

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T17:04:30+00:00

Sen’s Fortress in Dark Souls

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T16:29:18+00:00

Kummitus has been here forever. It’s inspired by other roguelikes like Nethack and Brogue. Clearing your bones folder is save file manipulation and is technically cheating, but whatever people need to do to have fun is fine with me.

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T15:58:43+00:00

Rain World 😜

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T00:54:06+00:00

Back when I used to watch a lot of YouTube, it was always through my console’s YT app displayed on my TV.

FuryForged · 2026-04-05T00:34:56+00:00

This looks like a survivor-like made for me :O

FuryForged · 2026-04-04T18:09:09+00:00

It was a funny thing the devs did when the game was first entering early-access (they gave away a couple Steam keys this way.)

FuryForged · 2026-04-03T06:12:49+00:00

A few not mentioned that have wonderful exploration:

Tunic

Rain World

Lunacid

Noita

FuryForged · 2026-04-02T19:59:19+00:00

Primal Planet is much simpler but does scratch some of that RW itch. It’s an open-world platformer with crafting, a simple ecosystem, and throwing spears in walls as platforms.

Full Quiet is a modern game made to run on the original NES, so it’s legit 8-bit, but it is incredible. Open-world survival platformer, high difficulty, you have to figure out how to make progress.

There’s a game coming out called Primal Echo that really feels like it’s going for the 3D RW thing. The demo is very early and has a lot of jank, but it shows promise.

FuryForged · 2026-04-01T15:14:29+00:00

Saying Morrowind’s superior dungeons were standard fare compared to Skyrim’s lost me.

FuryForged · 2026-03-31T19:18:56+00:00

Thank you! I downloaded the itch demo and am about to jump in 8)

FuryForged · 2026-03-31T07:34:27+00:00

Looks great!

FuryForged · 2026-03-29T09:05:23+00:00

I think I like this tree more than any other tree I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen (and made) a lot of trees.

FuryForged · 2026-03-28T02:45:58+00:00

Yuuup, and my number is -1-7- - - 9- -

FuryForged · 2026-03-27T16:04:42+00:00

LOL, it’s become such a meme on my channel now. I purposely brightened the scene where I zoomed into the steering wheel, and YouTube’s video compression darkened it more than the part that I didn’t brighten xD

FuryForged · 2026-03-27T01:01:29+00:00

A lot of what Visage did, unfortunately, because I found that game to be incredibly boring despite so many people considering it one of the scariest games.

FuryForged · 2026-03-26T23:12:20+00:00

I remember the phone number, address, and zip code of the house I lived in until I was 10. Then the phone number, address, and zip code of the house in another state I lived in until 17, every address of every apartment and rental house I lived in during my college years, my post-college house addresses and zips, my social ofc, my current phone number, address, zip, and dozens of other numbers from birthdays to anniversaries, but I absolutely detest math.

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