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The Magus Circle
Magic is Art. The Magus Circle is a vampire-survivors, rogue-lite game where you draw to cast spells! Meet other mages and unlock their abilities. Discover the secrets hidden inside the Circle. Draw the sigil, protect the circle, save the cosmos.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Saw the promotional videos online, its been on the Wishlist ever since. Such a unique idea for an Indie game and I am in love. It is fantastic try it... and it was a pleasant surprise with having full voice acting. the art style is so unique and pretty and I love the game play…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“First of all: Incredible! Nice Humor, very reminicend of Hades sometimes. (looking especialy at you "mr crow" ;) ) Kindof like a blend of Hades and 20 Minutes until daw. looks and feels exactly like my memories of some Nintendo DS games. Very cute artstyle, and surprisingly good…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“The game is incredibly high quality it almost feels like I am robbing the devs by paying so little. I anticipated the release since last year and it was totally worth it. Truly a pillar for indie games this year”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
1.0.3 Hotfix!
This patch we wanted to focus on fixing issues with extraction, and we made fixes to errors that could stack up over the course of the run causing some late game struggles. We still have more work to
1.0.2 Hotfix
We noticed many of you were having lag issues so we hunted down the bug and squashed it! We found more ways to improve our performance and it will take some time to implement but this should help out
1.0.1 Hotfix!
Day 1 Patch Thank you everyone for reporting your bugs in the Discord! We are making our way through as many as we can to get the game more stable. We will continue to fix bugs and optimizing the game
The Magus Circle 1.0 is out!
The Magus Circle is out! But that doesn’t mean our job is done… With this surge of sudden players we are aware you will all find bugs that we couldn’t so we will continue to provide support and update
That's Steam Next Fest!
Greetings Witches, Warlocks and Wizards of ambiguous origin! From all of us at By Witchlight, thank you very much for checking out our demo! We were thrilled to see over 21 thousand players step into
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · Roguelike · Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Roguelite · 2D · Magic · Pixel Graphics · Fantasy · Indie · Combat · Female Protagonist (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Korean * |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | https://www.bywitchlight.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11 Processor: x86, x64 architecture Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable Storage: 500 MB available space