The magical storm moves in quickly, and with your character zipping along at a good pace as well it’s not long at all before you’re spotting your enemies and taking to the skies or sending a barrage of magical madness in their direction. There’s no time to wander round for 15 minutes looting stuff before you see anyone. One thing I really like, that really put me off these games before, is how quick things move. It means that by the second half of the game those players still in the game will most likely have entirely different abilities up their wizardly sleeves, so if you’re expecting a predictable and easily countered set of attacks, think again. Maybe combine a stone-based boulderfall spell with a fireball, to create flaming meteors that explode when they land. Combine these two spells and you’ve got yourself a fancy little tornado of fire going on. Fancy adding some flair to your usual tornado air attack? Well, here’s just the thing: fire. Quite possibly my favourite part of the game is experimenting with spells from multiple classes (which you can grab and equip during matches) and seeing what they do when you unleash them together. It’s a world away from hiding in buildings, picking off enemies from afar and hunting for that elusive long distance scope instead the speed ramps up and you’re charging head-first into a mass of chaos and destruction while combining spells to lay down some serious carnage on anything stupid enough to get too close to you.Īh yes, the combining of the spells. Instead of arming yourself with a range of weapons, rifles and miscellaneous explosives, you choose your class of wizard and cast magic spells at your opponents, all while spending as much time in the air as possible to make yourself harder to hit. So what makes Spellbreak worth your time? Basically, it’s the magic. There were no old habits from other games in terms of tactics, controls or muscle memory that I had to shake off, and with Spellbreak being such a unique game (no mean feat by itself in such a crowded genre) that lack of previous experience actually felt like more of a help than a hindrance. As one of the 7 people in the world who never really got into the whole battle royale genre, I felt like I had the benefit of ignorance going into Spellbreak.

Spellbreak review