{"rewrite":{"id":"r_577d45f3fdc8f597c7aa15e1","clusterId":"c_23cdc25e1c7deba05778b5e6","slug":"metasla-announces-vampire-survivors-like-rpg-mana-alchemy-for-steam-in-2027","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Metasla Announces Vampire Survivors-Like RPG Mana Alchemy for Steam in 2027","summary":"Metasla announced Mana Alchemy, a Vampire Survivors-like open-world RPG, on September 4, 2026. The game is set for a 2027 release on Steam, with a console version planned but no platforms named yet.\n\nThe story follows Merlin, the youngest of eight daughters born to the great witch Dawed. Lacking magical talent, Merlin is cast out as a child and saved by a talking grimoire called Harley. She sets out across the island of Shudar, ruled by her mother and crawling with monsters, to take revenge on the seven older sisters who now rule it.\n\nCombat is movement-only: spells fire automatically once set into a grimoire grid, in the style of Vampire Survivors. Players build magic by arranging blocks in the grid, and can create new spells by alchemizing collected materials and existing magic. Equipping staves raises stats and grants each staff a unique ultimate spell. The story is framed around a choice between forgiveness and revenge.\n\nMetasla is a three-person indie studio based in Nagoya. Its previous PC release, Sea Fantasy, launched in 2025 and sold over 50,000 copies.","whyItMatters":"Metasla's 2025 PC release Sea Fantasy holds a 'very positive' Steam user rating, giving the three-person studio's first open-world project a proven track record to build on.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eMerlin is abandoned at age five, the night she is buried and saved only by the talking grimoire Harley. The island of Shudar is overrun with monsters, and the seven sisters who rule it each stand between Merlin and her goal. Beyond the grid-based spell building, combat itself feeds progression: fighting lets players draft upgrades that level up spell performance, and the game also includes staves with unique ultimate magic and a magical structure called the Mana Crystal.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetasla, based in Nagoya, Aichi, is a three-person studio with a history of mobile titles including Sword and Hero and Leveling, Hero\u0026#39;s Farm Survival, and Rogue Dungeon Walkers before moving to PC with Sea Fantasy in 2025. Sea Fantasy reached cumulative sales of over 50,000 copies and holds a \u0026#39;very positive\u0026#39; status on Steam user reviews. The studio frames Mana Alchemy\u0026#39;s story as ending in a choice between forgiveness and revenge.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Merlin is the youngest of a great witch's eight daughters, cast out at age five for having no magic talent. Saved by a talking grimoire, she returns to the monster-filled island of Shudar to take revenge on her seven sisters. Mana Alchemy hits Steam in 2027.","twitterPost":"Mana Alchemy is a Vampire Survivors-like where movement is your only input: spells auto-cast from a grimoire grid you build, and alchemy fuses materials into new magic. Metasla's follow-up to Sea Fantasy (50k+ copies) arrives on Steam in 2027.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Metasla, the three-person Nagoya studio behind Sea Fantasy, has announced Mana Alchemy, a Vampire Survivors-like open-world RPG for Steam in 2027. It follows Merlin, an abandoned daughter of a great witch, on a revenge quest across the monster-filled island of Shudar. Spells auto-cast from a grimoire grid you build, and the story ends in forgiveness or revenge.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/039/G103942/20260904007/\",\"title\":\"Vampire Survivors-like open-world RPG 'Mana Alchemy' to be released on Steam in 2027. 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