NEW DUNGEONS, SPELLS AND ENEMIES MAKE THEIR WAY INTO HAND-DRAWN PIXEL ART ARPG SCHOLAR OF THE ARCANE ARTS FIRST MAJOR UPDATE!

The game is also available on Early Access on the Epic Games Store. To celebrate it, ESDigital is running a contest on Twitter

Publisher ESDigital Games and indie developer Courtesy of Endo announce the first major update of the roguelike action RPG Scholar of the Arcane Arts. The Necromancy Update adds a new dungeon, seven new enemies and five new spells as well as other minor improvements. One of Scholar of the Arcane Arts key features is its ability to let players combine up to 10.000 spells: use a wide variety of spells from the five schools of magic (Hydromancy, Pyromancy, Geomancy, Necromancy and Aeromancy) to upgrade your spells and find the most powerful combinations.

Scholar of the Arcane Arts is available on Steam Early Access for $3.99 / €3.99. Today, the game is also available on Early Access on the Epic Games Store. To celebrate both milestones, ESDigital is running a contest on their Twitter account (more info below). You can check all the information about the Necromancy Update latest devlog below:

In its first major update, Scholar of the Arcane Arts adds a new dungeon, seven new enemies and five new spells as well as other minor adjustments:

• A new dungeon. A new Gateway has a chance to appear during your run that will lead you to the Eldritch Domain which contains the new dungeon, Catacombs. Explore a land of death and decay as you attempt to close this Gateway and save your village. But be careful Scholar, as the undead will swarm you!

• Seven new enemies: Warden, Zombie, Obsidian, Marko, Wraith, Lich, MasterEye.

• Five new spells:

  • Death Drain. Drain the health of all monsters near you, while recovering a small amount of HP per monster damaged

  • Ethereal Form. Leave your body in a ghostly form. While Eathreal Form is active, all cooldowns on spells are reduced by 50%. At the end of Ethereal Form you will be teleported back to your body. Careful, though! Your body can take damage while you're gone.

  • Soul Link. Mark a monster and soul links will attach themselves to nearby monsters from the marked monster. Any damage done to the marked monster will also be done to all Soul Linked monsters.

  • Null Hour. Sacrifice 50% of your health to deal 50% more damage for a limited amount of time. Afterwards, your damage and health return to normal.

  • Absorbing Eye. Drain the life of nearby monsters into the Absorbing Eye. The Eye will increase in damage and size with each monster drained.

• Other improvements include older spell updates, town building updates, gameplay updates, achievements on Steam and bug fixes.

ESDigital Games and Courtesy of Endo will be launching a contest on Twitter encouraging players to mix & match the new spells of the Necromancy Update with the ones from the game's first build and showcasing the best results. The contest, under the hashtag #BecomeScholar will run for a month on Twitter and the top 3 players that find as many combinations as possible will receive Steam keys for ESDigital games.

The Scholar of the Arcane Arts is a roguelike action RPG inspired by titles such as Magicka and Serious Sam Tormental, where you play the role of a wizard charged with protecting the world from the monstrosities that exist in the five different planes of magic hell bent on destroying the world.

Explore the procedurally generated realms of magic where you will find and upgrade a wide variety of spells, mixing them into even more powerful combinations to take on the hordes of enemies and the terrifying demi-gods that rule these dangerous planes. With over 10,000 spell combinations, take advantage of the right spell at each moment to counter, disable and deal massive damage to your foes.

• Take on truly terrifying Demi-gods from different magical realms: You will find one on each of the magical realms you explore.
• Explore the realms and defeat magical beings: Large procedurally generated worlds exist for you to discover and solve puzzles, complete dungeons and even find more powerful spells to help you along your journey.
• Acquire and upgrade your spells from five different schools of magic: Grow in power as you mix and match your spells to figure out which spell can be used effectively to counter, disable and deal massive damage to your enemies!
• Hand drawn pixel art mixed with current gen shaders help deliver a beautiful, dark fantasy experience.