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Leximan Brings Language & Laughs in Debut Trailer, Due 2024

A screenshot of Leximan depicting a pixelated library from an isometric point of view with a caption stating DO NOT DISTURB THE BOOKS in bold white letters.

Marvelous Europe and developer Knights of Borria have announced word-focused adventure title Leximan during the Guerilla Collective Showcase 2023. The game is set to release in 2024 for PC via Steam. Check out its announcement trailer, showcasing a taste of its language-based humour and gameplay below!

Leximan Trailer

As seen in the trailer above, players will take on the role of an unnamed protagonist enrolled in the world’s most exclusive magical school, known simply as Academy Elementinia. The protagonist will face many situations in the Academy using a unique form of magic known as Leximancy. Players will wield Leximancy within both the overworld and in battles to connect fragments of words to form unorthodox and oftentimes hilarious solutions to their problems. For a greater overview of the story and conceits present within Leximan, check out an official synopsis below!

In a stroke of good fortune, you’ve enrolled in the world’s most exclusive magic school: Academy Elementinia. But on the downside, this is a world in which magic is a bit embarrassing.

Still, you’ve got something special. You alone have the ability to use Leximancy, a hitherto unimaginable power driven by something as fascinating as it is enchanting: language.

Leximancy is an endlessly fun branch of magic, but it is also a risk of buttock-clenching magnitude. Years ago you caused THINGS to happen, and ever since then you’ve been banished to the school basement with the other failures- I mean learners.

Your life as a humble basement-wizard is interrupted as Academy Elementinia is attacked by someone with a baffling agenda and a huge set of fireballs.

Don your trusty hat, ready your lexicon, become the outcast that saves the school. Or if you don’t vibe with heroics, at least cause some more THINGS to happen. After all, you’re out of the basement now. Let’s see what you can do.

HOW TO BE LEXIMAN

BE WORDY. Cast Leximancy spells in a unique word-based encounter system, snatching word fragments from thin air to spell out clever incantations.

BE YOU. Unravel a surprisingly wholesome story about embracing and empowering the real you. I say “surprisingly wholesome”, because there’s also a bit where you kick a trout.

GO ROGUE. Use your utter hooligan of a brain to figure out words, puzzles, and a variety of minigames. Summon. Soothe. Enlarge. Enrage. Explode. Have a little sleep. Succeed strangely, or sit back and enjoy your failures. There are hundreds of different ways to play this game, and the best way is your way.

GO EXPLORE. It’s an absolute situation out there. The magical wilds are delirious with magic, the people of the cities hate wizards like you, and there are prisons. Wizard superprisons.

MAKE FRIENDS? Bother a chaotic cast of characters, from potion witches and sweaty musclemancers, to a bombastic policewoman and a pyromancer who’s just fed up to be honest.

GET HATS. Give hats to the hat goblins, please and thank you.

Leximan Screenshots

If any of this has piqued your curiosity, a limited-time demo is available now to try out until June 26th. I’m always on board for more indie games steeped in irreverent and enjoyable humour, especially games that showcase a love of language besides its laughs. It looks like Leximan may deliver just that to players when it releases sometime next year.

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Trent Argirov

Trent Argirov

Trent is a news editor for RPGFan. If not writing news or lending a voice to the odd podcast, he can be seen, in the Australian wild, drinking copious amounts of iced coffee, working on various manuscripts, and keeping the occasional wandering cat company. His video game backlog stretches far and wide, and sources swear he's slowly working on it, one day at a time.

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