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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 SteamSpy 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 playedLatest 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 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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