You have been invited to stay in Transylvania for the summer… Only to find out that you come from a long line of witches. Meet your new vampyre and strigoi classmates, embrace your destiny, and enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick! A supernatural adventure made in Transylvania.
## About This Game
Near-Mage is a narrative-heavy adventure game with a bit of role-playing DNA
that aims to appeal to hardcore players of the genre and newcomers alike.
* Study spell crafting in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick as a Near-Mage;
* Experience a deep and engaging story that plays like an adventure game;
* Craft your own spell inventory, use it with different results in every play-through;
* Dozens of vampyres, pricolitch, moroi, strigoi, ghouls, shtima – your spells change their lives for better or worse;
* Hand-painted in glorious 4K and traditionally animated frame-by-frame;
* Dozens of itemized outfits and hairstyles to customize your main character;
* A game about Transylvania made by Transylvanians!
You’re Illy Vraja, a teenager at a crossroads in her life who gets invited to
Transylvania by her mysterious Great-Aunt, Domnica, only to find out she comes
from a long line of witches, and is entitled to enroll in the Transylvanian
Institute for Magick!
As a Near-Mage, you are entering a summer preparatory school, hoping to
graduate into a full-fledged spell caster. You’ll take classes in different
types of Magick and see how you can use your growing powers to affect the
lives of those you come across.
We are from Transylvania, Romania ourselves, so we’re doing a deep dive into
its rich lore, legends and superstitions, heavily drawing on them in creating
Near-Mage’s dark and colorful world.
Travel freely between three main hubs: the real-life town of Sighișoara, the
mythical town of Rakus, that lies beyond a magickal veil and cannot be seen by
most, and the Transylvanian Institute for Magick.
Near-Mage will allow for a lot of freedom when approaching the situations
you’ll encounter within the Transylvanian Institute for Magick and its
surroundings. When it comes to spell-crafting, you can choose what type of
classes you’re taking on a whim, or you can look up recipes in a spellbook and
strategize your build.
This build variety will in turn lead to different outcomes for some quest
lines, affect certain NPCs’ fates, and result in high replayability. Maybe
you’ve erased an NPC’s memory on your first play-through. What if you used a
different spell on them this time around… or no spell at all?
You’ll be able to play Near-Mage as a point and click, or you can control the
character directly. Walk to your objectives, run at full speed, or even fly
there!
Make friends or enemies with fellow students, learn to be closer to your
magickal calling, and lift the veil off of ancient mysteries in Near-Mage!
## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
Near-Mage will contain mild swearing and some sexual innuendo, alcohol and
tobacco consumption, cartoon violence, and rare representations of dead
bodies.
Near-Mage