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CodeSpells
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-08-31 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
45 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“CodeSpells is currently in a very early alpha. Don't buy it if that's not your cup of tea. Aside from that, the premise of the game is one that practically everyone has wanted since they were little kids: you're a…”
“CodeSpells is an interesting and unique game. The power to devise your own magic, limited only by the physical rules of the universe and your own imagination, is a truly unique experience. The art style and music are…”
“Games that tackles magic were always my favorite, but I sometimes get dissapointed with them either because the magic system in them was like a "bonus mini-game"/a bit incomplete or it was useless. This game fixes that…”
8 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“I've been playing this game for a good amount of time now. So hopefully this review helps those who are interested. CodeSpells is a pretty awesome game. That alone is an understatement. I was an Alpha and Beta tester so…”
“The project has been abandoned by the original developers and remains in it's sandbox state. There are very few puzzles to solve and what remains is fiddling around with the environment without a goal. There are quite a…”
“I've been following this game since the kickstarter and am happy to see that the game is living up to the developers promises. I'm looking forward to seeing how this game evolves over the early access period, as there…”
6 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“CodeSpells is an interesting and unique game. The power to devise your own magic, limited only by the physical rules of the universe and your own imagination, is a truly unique experience. The art style and music are…”
“YES to all of it: - Active mods - thousands of spells waiting to get discovered. Want a golem puking rainbows? No problem! - procedurally generated world - said world is allways eye-p*rn. Yes it really looks amazing -…”
“This game is incredible. Some people need action, story, stuff to do, however this game just lets me relax with my imagination. I thought the sandbox would just be a giant field but they spawned me on top of a mountain!…”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“YES to all of it: - Active mods - thousands of spells waiting to get discovered. Want a golem puking rainbows? No problem! - procedurally generated world - said world is allways eye-p*rn. Yes it really looks amazing -…”
“This game really is the coolest concept I've ever seen for a game. Creating your own spells? What's cooler than that? It's super easy, too, and teaches you a big chunk of programming if you don't know anything about it.…”
“Very impressive Alpha. Bit of a learning curve but its half the fun finding how things work. The range of spell variables is overwhelming at first untill you use them and see them in action, its fun trial and error. had…”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Its a nice game to play with others. I wont go through the pros and cons, the dev abandoned the game sadly even thought this game was very promissing. So yeah, don't buy an abandoned game.”
“This game is really amazing for what it's worth! Although the price is a bit high (I'd say it'd be around 10 or 15 instead), it is a really fun sandbox game. It's a "breath of fresh air" for sandbox games in which you…”
“Gf loves magic and code. Going to recommend. I like the easy interface. It's confusing at first glace, but if you keep rereading, it gets better. I can't wait for more features like multiplayer. Right now, $20 buys you…”
47 of the 100 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“EDIT: The developers ran out of money and are no longer working on the game. Very little has been publicly announced outside of community discord servers. I consider it very unethical to leave the game for sale when…”
“Alas, this project appears to have been abandoned. It's a shame since there's some nice ideas, but currently what's presented is not worth the price.”
“I got my BF to play this once. Its the most I've ever gotten him to play any game that wasn't Rocket League. I suggest supporting it, great premise. And fun. We're both techies/administrators with some code related…”
27 of the 100 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“EDIT: The developers ran out of money and are no longer working on the game. Very little has been publicly announced outside of community discord servers. I consider it very unethical to leave the game for sale when…”
“This game was pretty good as a tech demo. The only issue I have with it is there isn't enough to justify spending money on it. It is a pretty neat trick to be able to write your own spells but there is no incentive to…”
“DO NOT buy this game. Developers abandonned the project around 10% completion. There is absolutely nothing to do in the game as this is a really early alpha abandonware.”
22 of the 100 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“This game was pretty good as a tech demo. The only issue I have with it is there isn't enough to justify spending money on it. It is a pretty neat trick to be able to write your own spells but there is no incentive to…”
“Alas, this project appears to have been abandoned. It's a shame since there's some nice ideas, but currently what's presented is not worth the price.”
“Last update to the game in my library shows 8/1/2017 so.... doesn't look like its going any further than it has. At the point it is now it could barely be called a game. Just a proof of concept really. Definitely not…”
18 of the 100 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“EDIT: The developers ran out of money and are no longer working on the game. Very little has been publicly announced outside of community discord servers. I consider it very unethical to leave the game for sale when…”
“Should have read the recent reviews instead of just "most helpful". I really wanted to like this game/sandbox, it's a very cool idea and it has some cool stuff. But it's full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bugs and I spend enough time…”
“Bought this game in 2015, I played it briefly, it was boring and lacked content, there's literally nothing to do except use a very limiting spell creation tool which the majority of code doesn't even work? I tried it…”
15 of the 100 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game was pretty good as a tech demo. The only issue I have with it is there isn't enough to justify spending money on it. It is a pretty neat trick to be able to write your own spells but there is no incentive to…”
“DO NOT buy this game. Developers abandonned the project around 10% completion. There is absolutely nothing to do in the game as this is a really early alpha abandonware.”
“Abandoned after kickstarter money ran out. Half-baked with no objectives, no goals, minimal interaction and topped off with performance woes. Lead developer moved on to a different company. There were talks of some of…”
Counted across 100 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 39.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“While making a Water Tornado I made a spell that makes a tsunami with enough force to push me across the map. This game makes your accidents a success and says "Well done you just made a spell that wiped out all of the wild life from that local forest, now make it bigger."”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“This is the kind of game where I wish I could vote neutrally on it. It has amazing potential but is an extremely risky purchase. I've been a programmer for a few years now (C, C++, C#, Java, Python) and I'd love to see this game developed further. I love these sandbox type games…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Great concept and whats done so far works great, but the development hasn't gone anywhere for a long time, no major changes in almost a year, just tweaks and bug fixes. It's a great concept and i was looking forward to competetive games, since theres so much room for…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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Nightly Build - Version .912a
Hi All, This nightly build opens up some really fun possibilities for you. We've created a spawnPrefab function, which can be called on orbs at any time. It takes a name, finds the prefab with that na
Nightly Build - Version .912a
Hi All, This nightly build opens up some really fun possibilities for you. We've created a spawnPrefab function, which can be called on orbs at any time. It takes a name, finds the prefab with that na
Nightly build out -- version 0.912
Hi all, We've put together another nightly build with some cool improvements. Survival 1) The ways that spawns would show up at night was annoying. They would show up behind you sometimes, and seemed
Nightly build out -- version 0.912
Hi all, We've put together another nightly build with some cool improvements. Survival 1) The ways that spawns would show up at night was annoying. They would show up behind you sometimes, and seemed
CodeSpells Version 0.911 -- Nightly Branch
Hi All! We've been working hard on a fun and challenging single-player experience, and we ended up settling on a survival-game-meets-tower-defense sort of experience, where towers can cast spells. A b
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Programming · Early Access · Simulation · Indie · Sandbox · Adventure · Action · Magic · Multiplayer · Education · Coding (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://codespells.org/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or Greater Processor: 2 GHZ Dual Core Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 2 GB available space