The Fool's Apprentice

The game feels unfinished. There are multiple game-breaking bugs and there is not much of a tutorial. There is no way to save your progress.

The concept of the game is not a bad one! The execution and state of the game and approach of the tutorial is lacking on all ends. Overall, it feels like a beta game and can not recommend it: Gameplay: https://youtu.be/cgfeSgxocT4

A management game of this nature should be more intuitive than it was. I love lore, but the "tutorial" was more info-dump than useful instruction and the only way to see how an apprentice is doing is to interrupt them. I had an apprentice quit despite actively training at all available stations. Returning while I can still get my refund. I was drawn to the concept because I am trash for anything with a magical academy trope and playing as the headmaster instead of a student was appealing but this fell very flat.

This magic school game has such a fun twist – you’re not a student, you’re the mean professor! 😂 You get points for messing with your poor little apprentices, and it only gets funnier the more you play. There are all kinds of unexpected events and weird little surprises that keep things super entertaining. It’s a really fun and fresh take on the whole magic school vibe!

The game still feels incredibly early access and the fact that they don't list it as early access is... really sad. No active pause function, The tutorial is just... boring, No real way to keep apprentices happy, the game seems to freak out when trying to move an object in a certain way. The game needs a LOT more work before I would ever recommend this to anyone. Because as of right now its just boring.

love them turning into frogs, vaporizing goblins, and making them go tubemode. they also can't leave if you put up a forcefield, although they will continue to try. Cool game with some fun mechanics, would love to see a save bc it does take some time to get going

Performance is abysmal even though I have the required specs

Each play through feels like a new story, full of unexpected events: stolen supplies, dangerous spell work, bizarre magical dilemmas haha I just love it!! Must buy!!

Very cool theme and visually quite neat, has a bit of a learning curve and a good amount of bugs though. I’ve had glitched character movement, characters not correctly despawning after death, models gliding over the floor instead of walking etc. Some hitboxes of the stations are also misaligned. The capitalised text is really hard to read with the font they chose, plus I have no idea how to get rid of the ghosts and no idea how the mind control spell is supposed to work. Also performance is a bit spotty, I have had lag happen while zooming in or out multiple times. I do hope that the performance issues can be fixed soon as for especially a full release non- Early Access game it’s not great to have these issues. This game is quite charming and has a lot of potential in my eyes, just needs some extra polish!

Love the visuals and interesting concept with sacrificial apprentices to increase your research power without endangering yourself. Not a fan of too much micro-managing but found that you can just keep recruiting apprentices and let the bad ones sort themselves out (i.e. turn into frogs and/or die horribly) A few minor bugs and some gameplay pain points (like not as much progress being saved between runs as I'd prefer) but the developers seem to be addressing quickly and releasing regular updates Overall a fun little distraction.