Overmana PL

A roguelite by Wumiko

Overmana

Night of a Hundred Lanterns

Every number is a missile.

The night before the Lantern Festival, mana overflows from the old spring and wakes things that served people for a hundred years. Four heroines and a little paper lantern have until dawn to calm them down.

Coming soon to Android and iOS

Overmana key art: Shiori, Rika, Lian and Harin stand on a grassy shore at dusk. Behind them hundreds of paper lanterns float on the lake, Lumo the paper lantern smiles above, and a jug, a broom and a small stone at their feet have eyes and faces.
Key art made with AI and edited by our team.

The night before the Lantern Festival

Once a year, the people of Lantern Valley float paper lanterns on the lake to thank the old things that served them. Ten years ago they stopped. The mana gathered in the spring by the hilltop chapel, and this autumn it spilled over.

Now thousands of old things are waking at once. Jugs run away from kitchens, mine carts roll out of the crystal mine and old brooms make mischief in town. These wakelings aren’t bad, just overflowing: release their extra mana and they settle down. Night after night they come down the roads, and the heroines meet them at the town gate.

How it plays

Numbers are how the game shows released mana. One drag, one release, and a few seconds of mana going off on the board.

  1. Cast a volley

    Drag up and release: your heroine casts a volley of mana orbs that bounce off the walls and the wakelings.

  2. Mana flies on

    Every hit releases mana as a number, and each further hit by the same orb is bigger. Released mana flies on by itself and hits the next wakeling.

  3. Overflow

    Colliding numbers merge in your heroine’s way. At 50 the mana bursts and calms the wakelings around it. Three overflows charge the heroine’s flourish: every number on the board doubles.

A 2.5D meadow board at dusk: wakelings of mossy stone and clay jugs with health plates stand on stone slabs among grass and flowers, in front of the town gate. In the foreground a heroine seen from behind casts glowing mana orbs, and pixel numbers fly above the board: 2, 6, a golden 18 and a pink overflowing 50. Town gate 53 34 40 51 35 50 22

Four heroines

All four are grown-ups with a trade, from three lands and the valley itself. Each one merges mana in her own way.

  • Shiori, a mage with spiky silver hair, a blue robe with wide sleeves and a staff topped with a glass orb.

    In the free game

    Shiori

    26, a wandering mage from the Isles of Mist

    Her mana gathers like mist: colliding numbers add up.

  • Harin, a grinning archer with an orange ponytail, a green hooded cape and a quiver of arrows.

    In the free game

    Harin

    24, an archer from the Pine Highlands

    Her mana carries like a mountain echo: numbers up to 9 multiply, bigger ones add up.

  • Lian, a calm scholar with long blonde hair in a cream robe, holding a leather-bound book.

    In the full version

    Lian

    29, a scholar and chronicler from the Jade Rivers

    Her mana works like brush writing: merged numbers add up with one extra stroke, and a prime number hits a second wakeling.

  • Rika, a blacksmith with a teal topknot, a leather apron and one steel shoulder plate, holding a hammer.

    In the full version

    Rika

    27, a blacksmith from Lantern Valley

    Her mana tempers like folded steel: a power of two doubles on every bounce.

One night, 2–3 minutes

  • 15 waves

    Wakelings come down the road in waves. Three lanterns hang at the town gate, and every wakeling that gets through puts one out.

  • Talismans

    After waves 3, 6, 9 and 12, pick one of three paper talismans: an extra orb, springy walls, a lower overflow threshold, a lucky seven and more.

  • Chapters

    The meadow, the crystal mine and the night forest by the lake, each ending with a bigger wakeling, and the finale at the spring.

  • Bond and gallery

    Your bond with each heroine grows after every night, whatever the result, and reveals her illustrations and short scenes in the teahouse.

Free to play, one purchase for the full game

Overmana is free with Shiori, Harin and the meadow, the whole first chapter. One in-app purchase unlocks the full game: Lian and Rika, the crystal mine, the night forest with the finale and the rest of the gallery.

No ads, no lucky draws and no subscription. The game works offline and keeps your progress on your phone.

Made with the help of AI

The illustrations, sprites, sounds and music in Overmana are partly made with AI models. A person at Wumiko picks and edits every file before it goes into the game, and the world, characters and rules are our own.

Where the game is now

Overmana is in production and in testing. It will come to Google Play and the App Store; until then there are no store links. The game is in English and Polish.

Questions or ideas? Write to support@wumiko.games or see Help & contact.

This page describes a game in development; rules, numbers and names may change.