Backfire

Tap rune tiles from layered boards into a 7-slot casting circle. Three matching runes cast a spell, dealing damage to the dungeon monster in front of you. Fill the circle with no match? Your spell backfires. Run over.

Between floors, draft grimoire pages that redefine what counts as a valid spell, suddenly you're not just matching triples, you're hunting fire-ice-storm combos and venom-venom-anything patterns that didn't exist two minutes ago. Every run builds a different spellcaster. Every run ends differently.

6 floors. 12 spell formulas. 6 relics. 2 bosses. One casting circle that's always one tile away from killing you.

Early prototype. Feedback welcome!