
Write on! Defend the books in Vellum, a co-op, literary roguelike! Harness class-defining colors, master an inspired spellbook, and influence the growth of your enemy! As a group or solo, you'll craft plot-twisting builds to rewrite the rules in Ink!
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Vellum is a co-op, literary roguelike; harness the class-defining colors, master an inspired spellbook, and influence the growth of your enemy - your imagination is key to saving the books!
Team up with pen-pals or dive solo into each mechanically-unique Tome where every page is another step toward rule-breaking power!
Dip your quills in quick, dynamic adventures full of synergy, discovery, and the ultimate power fantasy!
Wield colorful, class-defining Signature Inks - feed your health with vampiric Red, blot out enemies with endless waves of Blue, command your Inkling pet with Green, and discover the strengths of Pink, Yellow, Teal, and Orange!

Author your own playstyle by mixing together a wide roster of ink-fueled Spells; warp in Planets to control an area, lunge forward with sharp Swords, clobber distant foes with Dice, toss splash-heavy Potions, summon inky Flowers, Lanterns, Shields, Anvils, Ravens, and many more heavy-handed metaphors!
Color infuses each Spell from the start - in these books, your creative builds and revolutionary ideas will reach untold heights; Pages of Power constantly offer fresh ways to discover, combine, and master the world-making mysteries of ink. Imagination is your superpower.
Dive deep into the myriad Tomes: echoes of familiar tales and fables with unique, run-altering mechanics. Band together with your fellow players to harness thematic, team-wide boons in your fight to preserve these pages.
Plot twist - The Torn hunger for pages of their own! Play to your strengths by choosing how your foes evolve. Save more books from this dynamic foe, apply higher Binding Challenges to each journey, and overcome even the toughest obstacles to protect the Illuminated Library.
Home, sweet home! Rest and regroup in The Illuminated Library between adventures. Refine your strengths by researching and enhancing the power of your Ink! There's always a cozy place to read - especially when you can make one yourself! Explore the Library's secrets, then relax in your personal Customizable Reading Nook!
Deeper evil lies in store,
Beyond the page and secret door,
A broken realm where magic fades
Beware the dreaded Torn Lord Raids...

Swift Tales: Approachable, under 30-minute roguelike runs crafted for quick gameplay sessions for 1-4 players.
Signature Inks: Infuse your spells with one of 6 colorful classes, complete with their own unique upgrades and rewarding challenges!
Scrolls of Power: Tear through enemies with over 300 powers for you and your team. All powers can be build-makers, no filler.
Shaping Your Spellbook: Wield and combine an imaginative roster of over 20 spells - conjure Sewing Needles, hurl Anchors, sling Playing Cards - then enhance them with limit-breaking augments!
Torn Pages: With over 100 enemy upgrades and effects to choose from, only you will decide how your foes evolve throughout the course of battle.
Personal Reading Nooks: Show off your style with hundreds of decorations in your customizable corner of the Library!
The Font: Invoke unique Tome-themed powers as a team in combination with your individual builds.
Talented Research: Enhance the magic of ink between runs to improve your Scribe with customizable talents!
Brutal Bindings: Increase your challenge by affixing bindings to your runs. Greater danger brings greater rewards!
Rotating Book Club: Join other Scribes in tackling fresh, global challenges!
Two Raid Realms: Face the Splice Lord in The Forgery and confront the Raving Lord in The Grey Area!
Reference Section: All the high quality literature puns you could ever desire.
Endless Appendices: Reached the end? Found the perfect build? Face the Appendices and continue the fight!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Fun game with one huge flaw: The enemy's attacks ([i]warning zones, projectiles[/i]) are too difficult to see. Imagine trying to see a faint, orange glow in a map where there's sand everywhere, or white projectiles against a snowy / icy wall. The build variety is great, tons of spells, signatures, and inscriptions to make each playthrough unique, but the visual impact of the game just feels incomplete.
This is a fantastic game, extremely fun and I wish it would blow up like it deserves - this is an extremely well designed game, thematically, mechanically, visually. The sound design is really nice, the gameplay loops (All of them, because this game has great content for its price), is all genuinely what you'd expect from a respected indie developer. Highly recommended if you're looking for a casual fun roguelike with your friends.
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starts fun but then scales into getting one shot off screen by stuff you have no clue is even there
10 seconds of fighting with 10 minutes of selecting self perks, font perks and enemy perks. Way too much downtime
I have been playing this game non stop ever since I got it, it has been an absolute blast. I have defeated the 3 big bads in normal mode and I am now seeing the true difficulty of the game with hard mode bosses. It is a wonderful game but I wish they added newer colours, generators and spenders to mess around with. Ever since I started playing foil and blossom has been my go to because it reminds me of melee combat and stuff. Its great game and I recommend
Been playing this game exclusively two player and it's been amazing. We're avoiding guides to find things for ourselves and it's been so fun. Clearing levels can add new things to your home base, which gives a really cool feeling of progression. Things are unlocking at a good speed, enough that we have to work for it but not so dragged out we lose patience (we're both notoriously low on attention span so this may be a very quick unlock chain by most people's standards). The puzzles aren't *hard* but they do take a minute or two to work out - I wouldn't call it a puzzle game by any stretch so if that's your jam you won't find it here, but they break up the game nicely. Some levels also have mini games for bonus rewards which are fun. The different classes (inks) are all distinct, even if you're using the same spells, which is cool. (And if you're someone who goes deeper into builds and picks different spells for each colour I imagine it pays off really well). The powerups you get each run feel really impactful, and the overall progression of your character level adds some nice bonuses in terms of basic bonuses (5% more damage, etc) and more specialised passives. We've just unlocked some more game modes too which adds variety to our rotations. Definitely a good game to play with friends. While I'm sure it *could* be done solo it's more fun with allies and some of the bonuses you can pick affect other players as well so there's a stats reason for it. But mostly because it's just such a fun world to share. Everything is very pretty too. No frame rate issues and while I can be a bit of a graphics snob and wish things were higher poly the aesthetic and cohesion of the whole game really makes it a non-issue. Overall a game with a huge amount of customisation, in build and appearance, with a lot of cute odds and ends that really bring the world to life and show that they really thought about player experience in this. Well worth the money, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this.
It is a fun game with unique aesthetics. I would love to play it more but i just can't, for the life of me, tell when I'm going to be hit. Most of the time I end up losing health for what looks like no reason.
After 3 hours of game play, the game is forcing me to play the tutorial again. Along with that, once I try booting up the tutorial, the screen freezes and I have to leave the game. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still, no go. My computer is fine. This is the only game that won't run. It was fine a little bit ago.
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