Open-world Sandbox Mania
Mages & Materia
Chillbeast.studio presents: An MMORPG-style worldbuilder-action-RPG, an online sandbox built on metroidvania bones, started as a solo dev project. Wall-jumps and grapples, five schools of magic, 18 races, 10 classes, and a world you can mine and build cities, dungeons and worlds across ten depth layers. Currently in closed pre-alpha.
What kind of game is it?
Mining and building run across ten depth planes — foreground, play plane, stacked backgrounds — so a “2D” build is never a flat facade. You sculpt terrain, raise structures, and dress a scene front-to-back, closer to set design than tile placement. Persistent always-online world that supports multiple overworlds and instances.
Wall-jump, double-jump, dash, ledge mantle, grapple. Five classes, a five-slot spell bar, and spells that drop as skill gems you socket from the character sheet — a Warden running Stormcaller gems is a legal build. Melee sits on the mouse thumb buttons. Play solo or gather a party and conquer an epic dungeon.
33 (and more added regularly!) wildlife species on a day/night clock, herds included. Weather fronts, seasons, and plants that keep growing in real time while nobody is online. The soundtrack is composed for the biome you are standing in, and runs hotter in a fight.
Three persistent continents on one server. Orders (that is what guilds are called here), parties and 20-player raids, land claims, in-game mail, an auction house — and dungeon gates standing in the world itself.
The five schools
Aether, ember, frost, venom, void — every school has a bolt, a channelled beam and a smash, and statuses escalate and react: chill becomes freeze, and frozen targets shatter.
Latest from the realm
2026-10-08
Adding 3 different gear looks for each class (Light, Medium, Heavy), updating a few at a time should have them all in there in the next day or so.
2026-10-06
New heroes can begin in the **Ley-Vault**: a hand-crafted, metroidvania-style prologue. You start with only your fists and unlock bolt, dash, your spells, your movement skill and finally your ultimate, one ability shrine at a time — then face the Heart Warden and step out into the continents. Veterans can skip straight to the world.
2026-10-02
"Melee" bolt styles are available, regular bolts distance shortened. Lots of other upgrades. Lantern and Glass blocks have a nice palette of colors to build with now.
The Realm
Three continents, the classes and schools, the familiars you can possess, and the living layer that keeps growing while you are logged off.
From the world
Joining
This is a private pre-alpha, so access is by application. Tell us a little about yourself — player, tester, or builder — and I will read it. Fair warning: things will break, wipe, and change under your feet.
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