Mage Arena
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Mage Arena

A co-op PvP experience about using your voice to cast spells in the Mage Arena to settle an ages-old feud between sorcerers and warlocks.

DEV: jrsjamsPUB: jrsjamsAppID 3716600
UPDATE PULSEevery ~4d·last 177d ago·7 recent on record

Is Mage Arena still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

87.4
Strong

Elixir Rating

90.8% of 20,433 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 90.4. It was sold as a game that would keep being worked on, and the developers have gone dormant — subtracting 3.0.

reception 90.4·support −3.0·Strong

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

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From Steam's own record

Current price

$2.99

Development

Dormant

Last heard from developers

40 days ago

Usual rhythm

every ~3 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

2

Current silence

14× normal

The developers have been silent for 40 days against a normal rhythm of about 3 — roughly 14 times longer than usual. 2 substantial updates landed in the past six months.

Distilled by the oracle

Our coverage

1 dispatch written from this game’s announcements

patchAug 22, 2026

Mage Arena Patch Addresses AMD GPU Crashes and Desync Bugs

A new patch for Mage Arena (published July 27, 2026) tackles a cluster of desync bugs and addresses a crashing issue affecting players on AMD GPUs — while also quietly reshaping a few gameplay details.

AMD GPU crashes

Developer jrsjams flags two potential fixes for AMD-related crashes:

  • Driver rollback to version 26.3.1 is described as confirmed to fix the problem.
  • Disabling Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (found in Windows Display Settings → Graphics → Advanced graphics settings) is offered as an easier alternative, though the developer notes it may not resolve the issue for everyone — citing a similar fix that worked for Subnautica 2.

What changed

  • Rank and level now appear on the main menu.
  • Desync issues with boggarts, the bone dog, and sticky tongue have been fixed.
  • Exiting polymorph no longer triggers a broken book-equipping animation.
  • Dragon's breath may deal more damage — the developer acknowledges some uncertainty on this point.
  • Starting portals have a new visual to distinguish them from wormholes.
  • Boggarts now randomly emerge from their mounds on occasion.
  • Various small UI adjustments.

For players who have been dodging crashes or experiencing erratic enemy behavior in multiplayer, this update offers both a stability path and a round of targeted corrections to some of the game's more distinctive mechanics.

Two years of development

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20 announcements · 2 substantial · 18 months with nothing

Recent Transmissions

21 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsAug 14, 2026
king of the ring and hot potato

there are two new game modes king of the ring and hot potato in king of the ring there's a ring that moves around the map and you have to control it with your team in hot potato, when you die you swap teams, if you dying causes a team to ha…

Community AnnouncementsAug 10, 2026
added egg under mountain

added egg under mountain that does nothing fixed bug with polymorph that caused lobbies to crash

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2026
bug fixes + message to people with AMD 9000 series gpus

If your game is crashing with an AMD gpu there are two potential fixes: Fix 1: Rollback drivers to 26.3.1 ^ This is confirmed to fix the problem Fix 2: Go to windows settings -> Display Settings -> Graphics -> Advanced graphics settings -> …

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Community AnnouncementsMar 30, 2026
update

You can now choose 4 spells from a pool of 8 to have in your spellbook (the new ones are pixie dust, polymorph, sticky tongue, and dragons breath), There's new PvE in the dead forest (look for the mounds of mud) and a new craftable item fro…

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Community AnnouncementsSep 15, 2025
v0.8.1

i fixed the bug

Community AnnouncementsAug 31, 2025
v 0.8 DOOM

**2 NEW SPELL PAGES** New Spell: DOOM (tip: keep your feet on the ground) New Spell: Bubble **BALANCE CHANGES/BUG FIXES:** bug fixed that caused games to freeze in deathmatch 1v1s fixed bug where items could be invisible when dropped on dea…

Community AnnouncementsAug 26, 2025
IF YOU ARE BEING KICKED FROM FRIENDS LOBBIES PLEASE READ

We have found the issue is steam nick names, HAVE THE HOST CLEAR EVERYONES NICKNAMES I added checks that kick you for name spoofing so that it was harder for cheaters to dodge the blocklist, but if the host has nicknames for players sent th…

Community AnnouncementsAug 26, 2025
V 0.7.9 hotfixes

a bug where players were unable to join their friends lobbies because they would be incorrectly kicked by anticheat checks a bug where freeze/wisp could cause someone to become immune to fireball until frozen again a bug where players with …

Community AnnouncementsAug 23, 2025
still 0.7.8 but another hotfix

trying to fix bugs where fireball would oneshot due to incorrect server damage checks fixed a bug where the 1v1s would not show the victory screen trying to fix a bug where freeze was not hitting correctly people on this version will still …

Community AnnouncementsAug 22, 2025
v 0.7.8 hotfix

fixed a bug where spell pages had no cooldown after 2 minutes fixed a bug where players would start at spell level 8

Community AnnouncementsAug 21, 2025
v 0.7.7

freeze, magic missle, and thunderbolt voice detection improvements the region size to find matches has been increased to the max so regions with lower playercounts should be able to find games now, i will be monitoring if this causes ping i…

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Community AnnouncementsAug 1, 2025
V 0.7.6 ROCK

NEW SPELL PAGE, fireball scaling capped, perfectly timing your jumps gives you a small stacking movespeed bonus, thunderbolt nerf, cant jump up castle walls without items

Community AnnouncementsJul 30, 2025
V 0.7.4

TRYING TO FIX: Bugs where players could not cast spell pages, Teams could not respawn if their flag was only half captured, Dungeon Skeletons would not initialize correctly and would teleport around and be invisible, You would spawn with yo…

Community AnnouncementsJul 29, 2025
V 0.7.2

still trying to improve lobby finder trying to make freeze detect more often fix mountain wind bug trying to fix spell page not working bug (I do not think I was successful though but hard to test) trying to fix invisible renderers bugs

Community AnnouncementsJul 28, 2025
Hotfix 0.7.1

Trying to fix bug where you could join a lobby multiple times by clicking fast enough

Community AnnouncementsJul 28, 2025
V 0.7

HOPEFULLY LOBBY FINDER IMPROVEMENTS fixed a bug where shadow wizards were invisible various small bug fixes BALANCE CHANGES: Dark blast hit box and damage buff, capped freeze duration instead of infinite scaling with levels, magic missiles …

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2025
HOTFIX 0.6.2

ATTEMPTING TO FIX LOBBY OVERFLOW ERROR

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2025
Hotfix v 0.6.1

Attempting to fix an issue where more than 8 players were able to join a lobby

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2025
v 0.6

ATTEMPTING TO FIX: Bug where clicking join team on a full team would lock you out of swapping teams and cause 3v5 scenarios Picking up orbs could break your inventory Shadow Wizard audio is LOUD This may still be bugged, but attempted to fi…

Community AnnouncementsJul 26, 2025
V 0.5

Attempting to: Fix a bug where high ping lobbies would not spawn to the correct map, Players were able to join in progress lobbies, Both teams shared respawn points, Various other small fixes