Mage's Initiation
D'arc is a sixteen-year-old Mage to be. A sinister plot threatens his initiation and risks plunging the land of Iginor into conflict and chaos. Choose from four classes and train in the Elemental arts. Master…
Mage's Initiation is an adventure developed by Himalaya Studios, released 30 January 2019 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.99 at GOG.
What Mage's Initiation is
Mage's Initiation is an adventure game developed by Himalaya Studios and released in 2019. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adventure Game Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
D'Arc is sixteen years old. He has trained extensively in the elemental arts for the past decade of his young life, under the discerning eyes of the Mage Masters of Iginor. Confined to an existence of academics and magical mastery in their towering hall, the inquisitive initiate often wonders what it would be like to set foot outside in the world he has been secluded from; a world that his Masters deeply shun. Train your mental and magical mindset in the Reading Hall. As with all young Mage initiates in training, D'Arc's moment of reckoning arrives and he is summoned to the Hallowed Hall, where the four Mage Masters put him to the test. D'Arc is tasked with completing three quests which…
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Mage's Initiation holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Mage's Initiation launched on 30 January 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III and Slay the Spire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire.
Official trailer
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