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Solasta: Crown of the Magister — tabletop D&D brought to life on screen
If you miss evenings at the table with dice, a dungeon master and character sheets, Solasta: Crown of the Magister is your chance to build a party and roll the d20 again. Made by the Paris studio Tactical Adventures, the game honestly builds its combat and adventure on the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition ruleset (via the System Reference Document), not on some loosely D&D-inspired system. You assemble a party of four heroes, descend into the ruins of an ancient Elven empire, and hunt for gems to awaken a powerful artifact — the Crown of the Magister.
What makes Solasta click
The headline feature is verticality in combat. Height, volume and line of sight genuinely matter: you can hold a tower and shoot enemies from above, cut a rope bridge, levitate across a chasm or shove a goblin off a ledge. Light and darkness aren't decoration either — in the dungeons, characters without darkvision are effectively blind, and a torch can give your position away to enemies. Every check is an honest dice roll you see on screen, with all the bonuses and disadvantages straight from the 5e rules.
Party building and roleplay
You craft all four heroes yourself: five races and a set of SRD classes, backgrounds, personalities and even individual dialogue lines. The party system means any of the four can chime in during a conversation — a chatty rogue and a stern paladin carry a talk differently. This isn't a silent protagonist but a small, living squad with its own reactions to what's happening.
What you get in this lot
This is the base game of Solasta: Crown of the Magister as a Steam gift. The base version is enough to play the main story campaign from start to finish, level up your party and try the Dungeon Maker editor, where players build their own modules. The paid add-ons are a separate matter: Lost Valley (a standalone campaign with co-op), Inner Strength (new classes and the dragonborn race) and Palace of Ice (a high-level campaign with gnomes and tieflings) are not part of this lot and can be bought on Steam if you want them.
Dungeons, traps and tactics
Solasta isn't only about fighting. Its dungeons are full of puzzles, hidden levers, blocked passages and traps that genuinely test perception and get disarmed by your rogue. You can cut through walls, search for stashes, climb ropes and rappel down into chasms — the world reacts to your choices. Managing light, torches and rests turns every delve into a small expedition: you have to count your arrows, potion ingredients and spell slots. And the inventory plus potion and scroll crafting give you satisfying busywork between fights.
How much game is in the base version
The main campaign comfortably runs several dozen hours — enough to take a party from the early levels to a serious finale. After the story you still have the Dungeon Maker editor and hundreds of community modules from the workshop, so the game has plenty to fill your evenings even after the credits. The base version is enough to figure out whether this is your kind of game, with no obligation to buy the add-ons.
What you can play it on
This is a gift for the Steam PC version (Windows). The game runs nicely on Steam Deck, and for many players it works through Proton on Linux without any fuss — but officially this is the PC build from Steam. There's no cross-buy with consoles here: the gift grants the PC copy on Steam.
How the Steam gift works
We buy the game and send it to you as a Steam Gift through a bot. We need two things from you: your Steam friend invite link and your account region. The bot adds itself as your friend, sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes — and leaves your friends list once delivery is done. You don't need to accept anything manually, and Steam Guard isn't required.
Two conditions are non-negotiable, otherwise Steam simply won't let you accept the gift: your account region must match the gift region, and Solasta must not already be in your library — a gift can't be accepted for a game you already own. So pick the variant for your region and use an account that doesn't have the game.
Worth it if you're not a tabletop fan
Solasta is newcomer-friendly: it teaches the 5e rules as you go and lets you tune combat difficulty. It's also a great bridge to the bigger CRPGs — if the dice-driven tactics click for you here, check out Baldur's Gate 3 for scale and story, Divinity: Original Sin 2 for inventive combat chemistry, or Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for rules depth and build variety. Solasta is pure, focused D&D tactics with no filler, and within its genre it does exactly what it promises.
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