Hanzi Grimoire is a single-player deduction puzzle where Chinese characters become spells. Combine glyph cards, study failed rituals, and use two catalyst systems to overcome eight arcane laws. Uncover alternate characters, seven schools of magic, and more than 2,800 unique spells.

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Planned Release Date: Nov 11, 2026

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About This Game

Build characters. Cast spells.

You are a novice researcher with only a handful of source glyphs. Break them into components, recombine their forms, and awaken the magic hidden inside Chinese character structure.

Wood plus wood becomes 林. Add fire to 林 and it becomes 焚. But not every answer can be reached directly: opposing schools repel each other, overloaded rituals collapse, and identical materials may lead to different characters. Study each failure, understand the law behind it, then choose the right catalyst to break through.

Features

・Single-player deduction built around real character structure. Read shapes, components, and clues instead of memorising a recipe list.

・Eight arcane laws. Failed synthesis leaves a research record that explains which part of the ritual went wrong.

・Two catalyst systems. Ritual catalysts satisfy laws; tuning catalysts select alternate characters created from the same material base.

・Seven schools of magic: Elemental, Summoning, Alchemy, Mind, Light & Shadow, Space, and Concept—each with its own colour, tendencies, and catalyst qualifications.

・Progress from origins to legends. Unlock 49 source glyphs, pure-stack ascensions, canon chapters, trials, and hundreds of achievements.

・More than 2,800 discoverable characters. Familiar, rare, and extension-plane Hanzi receive their own card, reading, school, and magical description.

・A personal research journey that can be played offline. Experiment at your own pace, build your collection, and review every law and tuning route you uncover.

This is not a recipe chart to memorise. It is a grimoire that only your own experiments can decipher.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was used to draft this game's localized interface text (English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese); every line was reviewed and edited by the developer before shipping. The Han character data, spell descriptions and store artwork are not AI-generated: the characters come from Unicode IDS and public dictionary data, the spell descriptions are assembled by a deterministic algorithm from hand-written word pools, and the store images and trailer are drawn programmatically from real in-game captures. No AI runs during gameplay, and the game does not connect to any external AI service.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz dual-core processor
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible GPU
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
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