The story of the game revolves around a group of drop-out wizard apprentices, who've decided to skip their training for a quick path to the Nine Parchments. As the wannabe wizards rapidly discover powerful new spells and ignore all safety aspects, it's only natural that their hasty progress results in lots of unwanted deaths.

The Nine Parchments are a set of spells that wizards normally practice for a year each, totaling at least nine years at the wizards’ equivalent of a university — the Astral Academy.

The PS4 version of Nine Parchments runs at 1080p/60fps, supports local and online co-op with up to four players, and will be priced at $19.99 / 19.99 €.

After early reviews and users reported issues with the Steam and Switch versions that were released Dec 5th, Frozenbyte CEO Lauri Hyvärinen addressed the concerns: "We are incredibly grateful for all the community feedback and comments. We will be improving the game with multi-saving and everything the community needs" and continued: "Please keep the bug reports and feature requests coming, we want the game to be the most enjoyable experience possible, and will be rolling updates as soon as possible!".

Frozenbyte already has update plans: The first patch will be submitted for approval next week on Nintendo Switch, consisting of critical fixes to online play, a solution for multiple save slots, as well as numerous general improvements. A second update is planned for January, with the exact details still to be announced. Among other things, the development team is investigating cross-play possibilities between different platforms.

Key Features

• Top-down chaos action with a crazy amount of different spells
• Level up and train your characters in the magical arts, but choose your path wisely!
• Online and local co-op with 1-4 players
• Roguelike progression, randomly generated monsters
• Unlock new playable characters, wizard hats and magical staves
• Wield the power of the elements and master a diverse and ever-changing arsenal of spells: Projectile, DoT, AOE, Beam, Spray and Physical spell types
• Battle strange creatures & mighty bosses in a breathtakingly beautiful world, set in the Trine universe

Nine Parchments is currently available on Switch and PC, coming to PS4 on Dec. 12, 2017 (Dec. 13 in europe), with an Xbox One version to follow.