- I wrote an article on the physics of MageQuit - 7 April 2026
DISCLAIMER: I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO EMBED VIDEOS SO I RECOMMEND READING IT WITH VIDEOS HERE! I miss the creativity of Warcraft III modding in the golden days of Blizzard Entertainment. I spent countless hours playing and developing Warcraft III mods. One of my favorite mods to play was called Warlock. Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I hadn't walked into my college housemate's room that day while he was playing it. I became obsessed. The slowness of the wizards. The shrinking stage. The skillshots. The ridiculously slidey physics. I played many hours with my brothers and cousins. Then came the Ouya. If you've heard of it, you probably chuckled just now, but this failed Android console and its eight-player support was the catalyst for the concept of MageQuit. > Warlock, but with controllers and a shared camera. The recommended development platform for the Ouya was Un…
- Announcing: MageQuit Dungeons! - 31 January 2026
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352400/MageQuit_Dungeons/ For the past couple years, Chad and I have been quietly working on a co-op roguelike sequel to MageQuit and it would help us a ton if you'd wishlist it! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Add to your wishlist 🡭 We still have a lot of development to do, so if you'd like to support us and help decide the future of the game, we are also starting a Patreon! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Visit our Patreon 🡭 We'll be postingMonthly devlog videos (early access & name in credits available for Patrons) Regular updates (longer-form articles like this one) Realtime updates in Patron-only channels (#dev-progress & #commits channels in Discord) We hope you're as excited as we are about this new project and, as always, thanks for playing! -Brett
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XXIX - 24 January 2026
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=38 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- Unity CVE Vulnerability Patched - 12 October 2025
I've patched the newly discovered Unity CVE vulnerability. You can read more about the vulnerability here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59489 I also increased the quality of the videos for the newly updated spells. P.S. Don't forget our next MageQuit Shuffle Tournament is in a couple weeks! https://magequit.com/signup/
- v2.4.7 Thicc Roccs Patch Notes - 27 September 2025
SUMMARY This started out as a minor patch to fix an Azure deprecation, but it got kinda big Fixed a lot of physics weirdness (dead spots, wall clipping, bridge sinkholes) Significantly reduced CPU and GPU load (new framerate setting!) Rebalanced and reworked many lesser-picked spells More wormhole BUG FIXES Fixed Stage Bugs DONG! SFX on Plates are now properly controlled by the SFX volume level Deadspots bug fixed! Spells no longer get stuck on ground Replaced bridges on Bridges with thicker colliders that have better rotation and scaling (should drastically improve fall-through-bridge bugs) Units will no longer glitch and clip over Rock Block, Fissure walls, or Coffin walls Coffin walls also now have slippery slopes on the outsides, giving players a chance to recover before sliding to their doom Fixed Spell Bugs Death Charge / Death Taxi combos work once again (Vanguard + Tow Vine inte…
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XXVII - 21 July 2025
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=36 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XXVI - 2 June 2025
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=35 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XXIII - 16 January 2025
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=32 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XXI - 9 October 2024
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=30 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XX - 8 August 2024
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=29 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- v2.4.6 Holiday Patch! - 23 December 2023
NEW FEATURES Added new stages The Glaive The Village The Plates New element selection UI for online party only and couch games Set individual elements to Included, Available, or Banned Added new Spell Selection Mode: Random 7 -- same as Random 7 Mirror except it's fully random and can be played FFA New Ice Skin Added a Sports Only preset Added 3 cursed presets (Oops All Wormholes, Too Many Mages On Ice, and Bottomless Pit) Added Istanbul "tr" and Dallas "ussc" servers to the server list Spectate mode can now be toggled in the Online Lobby and "Game Mode" option has been removed from main menu settings Added ability to show pings in the Online Lobby with Left Bumper on controller Added "press any key/button to continue" to couch loading screen BUG FIXES Fixed online bug with Preserve where players would appear to stay on top of their crystal on other clients when they had actually used a…
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XVIII - 17 July 2023
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=27 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- The longest beard wins in wizard brawler MageQuit - 17 January 2023
In the mood for a simpler action game to play with friends in local or online multiplayer? MageQuit isn't a new game, but I did miss that it added full Native Linux and Steam Deck support. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-longest-beard-wins-in-wizard-brawler-magequit
- 3v3 Shuffle Tournament XVII - 16 January 2023
WHAT IS IT? MageQuit Shuffle is a casual, roughly 4 hour tournament event. Players sign up individually and are assigned a random team each game. All players will play 4 placement matches. The top 24 placing players will move onto the single elim bracket. Sign up in-game or with command +signup in the MageQuit Discord Attendees so far: https://magequit.com/tournaments.php?t=26 MORE INFO Individual score is determined by team wins, damage dealt, healing applied, kills, and deaths. Each of the 6 finalists will receive a game key. The 3 winners will also receive 1000 experience and 500 gems.
- Official Steam Deck / Linux Support - 22 September 2022
MageQuit now has a dedicated Linux build that resolves Steam Deck crashing issues caused by the Windows version running through Proton! Update these settings on your Steam Deck (or other Linux device) for best results. Go to MageQuit game settings: Select Properties... Select 1280x720 for Game Resolution (or any desired 16:9 aspect ratio for your device) Under the Compatbility tab, check the checkbox, and select Steam Linux Runtime
- The 10th Element: Ice Spells! - 24 February 2022
Ice spells are here! Featuring some voice acting by my dog, Marty. Ice is the first element that is explicitly better the more spells you have in the same element. Each ice spell can create an ice crystal and changes the state of all your existing crystals, making it the most combo-able element yet. ICE ONLY COMBOS Blast Fishing Brittle End Marty Party You Were The Chosen One MIXED ICE COMBOS Spiked Collar Shock Collar Shock & Aww Snow Thrower It's Like A Hoppity Hop
- New Stage: The Shrine - 29 October 2021
v2.4.4 The Pumpkin Patch NEW FEATURES New Stage: The Shrine! New Skins: Fall Event Skin! Metal Skin! New main menu background BUG FIXES Fixed bug where letters missing from the game's standard font were showing up as blocks in-match The correct error message now appears if PC players try to play a Couch game without controllers Disclaimer: there are no pumpkins in the patch -- it's just a pun about Fall.
- OP stands for Optimization Patch [v2.4.3] - 16 October 2021
ADJUSTMENTS Rocket: range increased by 15% Suspend: adds 30% bonus to stored knockback Chainmail: Windup time increased from 0.25s to 0.35s Always lasts 5 seconds if triggered (will not last longer from DoT) Winddown time increased from 0.35s to 0.55s Cooldown increased by 2 seconds Double Strike: final strike is now delayed by being petrified, sustained, or mid-rewind Flame Leap: damage no longer triggers on unit collision -- it only triggers on landing Wormhole: now collides with ground and other Wormholes, reducing unintended interactions Urchain: Collision now triggers on entering a Wormhole rather than yeeting players around until expiration General velocity on pulled units is now dampened to prevent/reduce MageQuit Space Program effect Air stages will no longer appear for players until after their first 3 element unlocks Coffin tip now says "Move the windwall by pushing as a team"…
- Out Now on Nintendo Switch™ with Crossplay!! - 23 September 2021
MageQuit is now available on Nintendo Switch™ with Crossplay! Play on Steam with your Nintendo friends using the room code system or queue up against random strangers who may or may not be Nintendo fanboys. Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.
- Custom AI Patch! [v2.4.2c] - 21 September 2021
With the Nintendo Switch™ release coming up, MageQuit now allows players to add custom bots to their online or offline matches! Custom Bots for Party Only and Couch! Bot difficulty can be set to 1-10 For Online Party, you can also set bot difficulty to Auto Bots are auto-assigned to teams based on player team selection Any matches with custom bots (with the exception of "Auto") will not update player MMR since explicit bot difficulty is hard-coded and therefore could be farmed
