Fuse 60,215 elements, then take them into the dark
Ars Magna is an alchemy game in two halves. In the Vessel you fuse elements to discover new ones. In the Cinderhouse you take what you built down into a survivors-style arena. Twenty people arrive at the house carrying the ruins of a former life, and each has found in the Art a reason to begin again.
The Vessel: fuse two elements to discover a third
Every element comes from the old correspondence tables: the four elements and the three principles, the seven metals and their planets, the signs, the tarot, the decans, the Sephiroth. Put two together and the rules decide what comes out. There are 60,215 elements across three layers of the work, and each one you craft is a generator that keeps producing while you are away.
The Cinderhouse: hold the ground while the tide comes in
Pick a character, carry four packets of your own elements down, and hold the line. Thirty weapons and fifty-two fusions between them, 560 creatures with a boss for every ward and grade, and a ladder of stages that never ends. Each stage hides four forgotten ashes; find all four before the boss will take a hit. What you discover above changes how you survive below.
The Armory, the underworks and the rest
Gear drops from the fight: 1,200 base designs, 1,000 epics and 200 legendary sets across ten slots. Wear it, sell it, or reroll its lines at the forge. Below the house, the underworks of Ravel descend two miles into the earth; send expeditions that bring back salvage over hours and days, and work through 175 achievements along the way.
Free with ads, with optional purchases for keys, consumables and hints. Progress is kept offline, no account or login is needed, and the game is translated into 35 languages. Requires an iPhone or iPad on iOS 18 or later. The Android version is coming soon.
The gameplay trailer, the stories of all twenty alchemists, four cinematic character films and the map of Ravel are at arsmagnagame.com.
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