You want to know why wizards are in video games? To cause mass destruction. Do you know what wizards don't get to do enough of in video games? You guessed it. But Fictorum changes that. Fictorum puts you in the mage boots of the most destructive magic user I've ever seen in a game before. You're like the leader of Red Faction: Guerrilla, but with more finger waggling. I'm pretty sure your only job in Fictorum is to sprint through the procedurally generated medieval landscape and make things go boom. With the occasional house-sized ice spike to launch bad guys into the sky, y'know, for good measure. This isn't end-game stuff: You're casting monster-sized spells from the get go.
Indie developer Scraping Bottom Games looks like it's doing a lot with very little. The mage's animations are a wee bit floaty, the enemy AI is run-straight-at-you brainless, and the buildings break apart in only partially convincing ways. But it all looks fun! This one's going on my Steam Wishlist. Shaping spells on the fly, calling down Armageddon-sized meteors, and throwing plasma the size of a yoga ball convinces me that this land needs a reign of destruction.
Fictorum launches on PC in about three weeks on August 9.
