Witching Stone is a puzzle game matched with a deckbuilder! Customise your spellbook and weave spells with coloured stones.
The game combines puzzle, roguelite, and deckbuilding mechanics into a unique experience. Players customize a spellbook with various spells and modifiers, then use a colored stone grid to cast those spells in combat. Carefully connecting the required stones in the right order activates the spells, adding a puzzle-like challenge on top of deckbuilding progression.
Players can freely rearrange and mix-and-match spells and modifiers, allowing for experimentation and discovery of powerful synergies. Reviewers highlighted the satisfaction of finding ways for different spells to complement and enhance each other.
As players progress through procedurally generated dungeons, they unlock new spells, modifiers, and character abilities, providing a deep customization system. Reviewers appreciated the wealth of viable build options to explore.
Each combat encounter presents a puzzle to solve by arranging the colored stones to efficiently activate spell combinations. Reviewers noted how this puzzle-solving, combined with strategic resource and threat management, creates a rewarding gameplay loop.
The game's procedural generation, diverse spells and modifiers, and multiple playable characters offer substantial replayability. Reviewers enjoyed how each run feels fresh, with ample room for experimentation and discovery of new strategies, catering to fans of the roguelike genre.