Castle of Alchemists
In Castle of Alchemists, a tower defense/top-down action hybrid game with amazing pixel art graphics, play as the Bellator, alchemically enhanced defender, to fight against invaders from other worlds. Delve…
Castle of Alchemists is an arcade developed by Team Machiavelli, released 17 May 2023 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Castle of Alchemists is
Castle of Alchemists is an arcade game developed by Team Machiavelli and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Decades of failure to achieve the ultimate goal, Philosopher’s Stone, led the masters at the Castle of Alchemists, to impatience, and at their lost of virtue, they made a terrible mistake.They have started to study heretical arts of sorcery to hasten the Magnum Opus. Instead of finding the Philosopher’s Stone, they have opened portals to unknown elemental realms, pouring malicious creatures into our world. Castle's defense systems trapped both creatures and the residence of the Castle inside. This solution is though only temporary, since creatures started to break free from this entrapment. It is now up to only a handful of apprentices, and the alchemically enhanced defender of the order…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Castle of Alchemists launched on 17 May 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and System Shock. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, System Shock.
Official trailer
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