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Open Sorcery – Adventure Game Review
Open Sorcery is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Abigail Corfman, first launched in 6th May 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 21+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Open Sorcery Stand Out
You are online.
You are fire and order.
You are a firewall.
You are here to protect.
"Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person.
It follows the development of BEL/S, an Elemental Firewall: a creature of intertwined magic and code.
It is text-based and uses the revolutionary Twine engine. There are 55,000 words of text, five animated sequences, and ten possible endings.
In this game you can:
- Search for malicious spirits
- Protect your network
- Make friends
- Burn everything
- Learn
- Dream
- Become sapient
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Open Sorcery is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd May 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Update to description
- Streamlined saving
- Added loading cues
- Fixed achievement delay bug
Download & Availability
Open Sorcery is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
In this text-based RPG, you play as a combination firewall/fire elemental, protecting a few people and places from magical and technological threats. If you're like us, that's enough to try it out, and if you do you won't be disappointed. It's short-ish and linear, but there are so many things to learn and try it has good replayability. We're very looking forward to Open Sorcery 2.
A very fun and creative game, really enjoyed it.
Not only was this game incredibly moving and intuitive, but the game was just straight up fun. Everybody should buy this game. You there! You reading this right now! Buy this game! Do it.
Learned about Open Sorcery at PAX East. If you're a fan of choose your own adventure stories and the thematic content being presented here, you're in for a nice little ride.
This game is really fun and has a large variety of different paths one can take, which provides a lot of replay value. However, the save and achievement systems are completely broken. Every time we restart the app, all our saves are missing, and when we try to save on slot 5, it reloads slot 4 instead. Achievements disappear when we restart the app too. When these issues are addressed, this will be a five star game. As it stands, you need to play all the way through in one sitting.
An absolutely glorious game. Out of all of the games like this we have played, this is definitely in our top three.
We actually to the time to sit and replayed to get all the ending (which no game ever made us feel like doing that).
We saw Open Sorcery at PAX and marked it on our "play later" list. We wish we'd picked it up sooner! We just stayed up way too late to finish it. Worth every penny.
We cannot recommend this enough. The writing is evocative, the story is engrossing, and we couldn't stop thinking about it for days after playing through a couple of times. This update also fixes the lag that made the 1st version frustrating towards the end, so it's well-deserving of a 5 rating.
Heard about this game from a podcast about how they played it at PAX, so we decided to try it for ourselves. Far exceeds our expectations. Worth the price.
We downloaded this before a long period offline and it didnt disappoint. We must have replayed it at least two dozen times exploring the new pathways that different choices open up. Id recommend this for anyone who enjoys text-based branching stories.
We stumbled on this game just randomly browsing yesterday and we just couldnt put it down! We love how it takes such a simple concept and turns it into something introspective and emotionally impactful. It probably helps that Im a software developer so a lot of inside jokes related to software development tickled us. But, that humor isnt entirely required to follow the story and we think anyone could follow the game quite easily. HIGHLY recommend you give it a try :).
This game took our breath away. Theres a sense of a fearless imagination behind this thats amazing and exciting. Cant wait to see what else shes working on.
A delightful gem. We can't believe we haven't heard of this before. Buy.
It's a nice short story game with real emotional weight to it. We care about every character. The story is rich and there is a lot of replay value. The only app we've bought that was actually worth the 3 bucks we spent on it.
Just when you start to think the App Store has become a boring morass of freemium clones, along comes a blinding original, brilliant game like Open Sorcery. The setting is fantastically crafted, the characters are compelling and the story is fascinating. The prose ranges from hilarious to philosophical to emotionally riveting while retaining a singular voice. But don't think Open Sorcery isn't interactive – the strategy/gameplay elements work beautifully. Thought provoking, distinctive, amazingly fun…can't recommend it enough.
This game is amazing, it moved us to tears. Please make more of this art. Worth the $3 and more.
Saw this game at PAX West this year and after playing it we just have to say it's simply fantastic. The concept is unique and well implemented, and there's an amazing emotional depth that is quite surprising for a text based game. Very replay-able too! Amazing work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10
- Size: 17.98 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Abigail Corfman
Last updated: 23rd May 2017 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Abigail Corfman