Metasla Announces Vampire Survivors-Like RPG Mana Alchemy for Steam in 2027
Metasla's 2025 PC release Sea Fantasy holds a 'very positive' Steam user rating, giving the three-person studio's first open-world project a proven track record to build on.
Key Facts
- Metasla announced Mana Alchemy, a Vampire Survivors-like open-world RPG, on September 4, 2026.
- Mana Alchemy is scheduled for a 2027 release on PC via Steam, with a console version planned but no platforms confirmed.
- The game follows Merlin, the youngest of the great witch Dawed's eight daughters, who is abandoned for lacking magical talent and seeks revenge on her seven older sisters.
- Combat in Mana Alchemy is movement-only, with spells that activate automatically from a grimoire grid.
- Metasla is a three-person indie studio based in Nagoya, Aichi, whose 2025 PC title Sea Fantasy sold over 50,000 copies.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Automaton.
Metasla announced Mana Alchemy, a Vampire Survivors-like open-world RPG, on September 4, 2026. The game is set for a 2027 release on Steam, with a console version planned but no platforms named yet. The story follows Merlin, the youngest of eight daughters born to the great witch Dawed. Lacking magical talent, Merlin is cast out as a child and saved by a talking grimoire called Harley. She sets out across the island of Shudar, ruled by her mother and crawling with monsters, to take revenge on the seven older sisters who now rule it. Combat is movement-only: spells fire automatically once set into a grimoire grid, in the style of Vampire Survivors. Players build magic by arranging blocks in the grid, and can create new spells by alchemizing collected materials and existing magic. Equipping staves raises stats and grants each staff a unique ultimate spell. The story is framed around a choice between forgiveness and revenge. Metasla is a three-person indie studio based in Nagoya. Its previous PC release, Sea Fantasy, launched in 2025 and sold over 50,000 copies.
Merlin is abandoned at age five, the night she is buried and saved only by the talking grimoire Harley. The island of Shudar is overrun with monsters, and the seven sisters who rule it each stand between Merlin and her goal. Beyond the grid-based spell building, combat itself feeds progression: fighting lets players draft upgrades that level up spell performance, and the game also includes staves with unique ultimate magic and a magical structure called the Mana Crystal.
Metasla, based in Nagoya, Aichi, is a three-person studio with a history of mobile titles including Sword and Hero and Leveling, Hero's Farm Survival, and Rogue Dungeon Walkers before moving to PC with Sea Fantasy in 2025. Sea Fantasy reached cumulative sales of over 50,000 copies and holds a 'very positive' status on Steam user reviews. The studio frames Mana Alchemy's story as ending in a choice between forgiveness and revenge.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.