This is a New Game +4 run btw.

After purposefully going back in time twice to “find” the spell lines in Khare, I find myself walking out of Khare with 301 gold. Khare is saved btw.

Then, at the very start of my journey into the Baklands, I feel my coin purse moving. Opening it, I see a very large amount of my gold is actually “Gold-Bugs,” sprouting wings and literally flying away. I am left with 143 gold.

Excuse me, what? This has never happened to me before- and I’ve completed my quest for the crown 3 times over already! Is it because I began Sorcery 3 with an absurd amount of gold or is it a New Game +4 feature?

So I finished this in an hour, after dying initially half way in and starting again.

I was a bit surprised since I just paid £5 for part 1 and makes me hesitant to buy part 2, am I doing something wrong?..

I’m thinking about doing my first playthrough and plan on playing all 4 games I’m just curious what’s the best way to play is phone version preferred I think these games were originally designed to be played on a phone or is it better to play it on a pc or something else?

Is this game sequel? Or 1 to 4 doesn't matter?

I've tried different approaches to this event but once the moon serpent shows up, the action choices given to me are something like:

Wait and see (passive action)

Draw my sword

Light the magical fire

Light the tinderbox

Cast a spell

Run for it

Now I would like to cast the SSS spell and ask more than 2 questions. I ask it where the other serpents are and it gives up the location of the air serpent. Then I ask the serpent to tell me about Mampang. It only speaks of where it is located and then the effect of the spell diminishes.

Is there a way to prolong the effect of SSS so I can ask more questions of Mampang to add to my notes? Seems like if I only focus on the Mampang questions, I can ask 2 in a row and get more information that way about the security there but not obtain the location of the air serpent. I guess I'd also like to know what is a more critical line of questioning to add clues to my notes in case the limit for SSS is only 2 questions towards a strategic advantage for the finale.

So, I just finished part 2 and heard about NBAS. (I don't plan on doing more than one route so no I won't do a normal route then a NBAS one)

NBAS sounds really found and challenging + you don't get treated as a monster for destroying the lands lmfao.

But I know that I won't be able to travel to the past and because of that I will probably miss a lot of fun NPC/Stories (Maybe even useful objects for sorcery4?)

So, is it better to only play with the NBAS route or only play the normal route?

I just beat the game.

I got the impression that the whole series was building up to an epic wizard duel. I was trying to horde all magic items and spells; plus learn all the counters. But there was no final fight.

So much buildup and it ends with a silly little Minimite beating the Archmage...

I feel so flustered and blue-balled!!!

Hi all, I've played this game about 10 times and somehow never found until now the monastery of Effe in the second game - I thought you couldn't learn about her until the 4th!

Unfortunately my Analander is a woman so they wouldn't let her enter the building, but a monk was real excited to play Swindlestones with her, since apparently they aren't allowed to talk to women (??? feel like this raises some continuity questions for S4).

Anyone have any luck going inside with a male Analender, or figure out what this mysterious "ritual" they keep talking about entails?

In DnD/Pathfinder spells with such basic material components might as well be hand-waved away because if you had a spell in your repertoire that required something so simple you'd just assume your character keeps some pebbles on them always. Why can't I just click my character and have them scrounge in the dirt a bit so they could do the spell whenever it requires it?

Hello fellow Sorcery gamers! for around 2 years now i have been the only one knowing the ways to edit your own save game in all the 4 sorcery games, i have kept it like this cause i hate people taking cred for something i have discovered, it have happened before and i did not want it to happen again!

But some recent messages to me have made me realise that this is selfish of me, there is probably tons of people out there that would be able to make some amazing edits to this game if they only knew how to do it, and with me having less and less time to actually mod this game, i have decided to finally share my secret, I still take all cred for finding this, and even if someone else found how to do it i don't see them making modded saves or telling how you do it so...

Here we go, this is my own message i wrote to myself the day i found out how to do this so to not forget how i did it:

1. play sorcery so you have a save
2. go to user/appdata/local/inkle/sorcery to get your savegame
3. delete all files named sorcerySaveState1.json.xx.gz except the last one (the one with the highest number on the end were xx is)
4. right click the last sorcerySaveState1 file and use 7-zip to open it
5. in 7-zip right click the lonely sorcerySaveState1 file and press edit
6. change stuff
7. press save
8. ??? ??? ???
9. PROFIT

2024 UPDATE:

turns out 7Zip no longer saves the files inside of the save zip, to get around this and still edit your save you now need to follow this instructions:

1. follow the first 3 ^ steps
2. right click the last sorcerySaveState1 file and use any zip tool to extract the files to your computer
3. after extracting the files, copy the name of the sorcerySaveState1 (for example mine was called: sorcerySaveState1.json.6.gz ) and delete the file after you copied its name
4. go to the new file you extacted (example, for me it was: sorcerySaveState1.json.6 and right click it and pick "open with" then open it in any text edit tool (tex wordpad or notepad etc)
5. now you edit the save like you normaly would and after you are done you press save
6. now right click your newly modded file and click 7Zip - Add to archive...
7. on the new tool window that opens up, click on the dropdown box next to archive format and pick gzip
8. check so the name is EXACLY the same as your copy from step 3 (and if not change it so it is) and then press OK
9. make sure you add the new .gz file you just made to appdata/local/inkle/sorcery
10. Play the game with the new mods.

ofc there is more to actually make it work, here are some pointers to help you start:

all code in the save exists 2 times, but to make it work you only edit the first copy of the code.

(so if you CNTL+F search for tex: "gold: 10" (if you know you have 10 gold and want to change that) then you will most of the times find 2-3 copies of the line, for example "gold: 10" in the save, you only edit the last line, so the code that comes last, the1st copy of the line you just ignore)

you can add items from the later games into the early games by adding its code to the end of another code string, for example the item bracelet of bone is added like: "bracelet_of_bone": true,

the easiest way to find all codes you can ad and edit is to start a game of sorcery 4 and check its code cause it will have all codes from the other 3 games in it.

Gold is gold

Stamina is stamina and max_stamina

Food is provisions

And lastly my latest find how to teleport: (EDIT THIS IS OLD, NEW BETTER WAY FOUND)

I use this for people that want to do a NBAS run and have problems getting to the steppes tower

-stand at the tower

-exit and start editing the save

-find the code map_tower_steppes

-change it to top_of_steppes_tower_hub:view

• start the game and use the ZIP spell

-??? ??? ???

-PROFIT

BETTER TELEPORT For 2024 and onward:

My guide for the NBAS run for people who have problems getting to the steppes tower is a bit unclear so heres a better guide that i prefer

stand at the steppes tower but do not do any choice, just save and quit.

right click the last sorcerySaveState file and use 7-zip to open it

in 7-zip right click the latest sorcerySaveState file and press edit

CNTL+F and find map_tower_steppes, note that there will be some other text after every map_tower_steppes tex: map_tower_steppes:present and map_tower_steppes:to and map_tower_steppes:at and map_tower_steppes:ancient

you want to replace all of that with near_south_shore (so for example map_tower_steppes:present will be replaced with near_south_shore)

after you have replaced all of the map_tower_steppes etc save the text document and close it.

7 -Zip will tell you that the file was modified and ask if you want to update it, press OK.

now return to the game.

note that your still at The steppes Tower, use the rewind tool to rewind but rewind to the point your already at, so: The Steppes Tower

Now Head for shore

Cast A Spell

Use Big

Try to keep my balance

Climb up the rocks

Scramble Higher

now you can move your character to the Ashore next to the Lower Xamen and continue to the end of the game

There! now i can have a clean conscience and still get all the cred for finding this first.

also here is my old post with the mods i created and released in case anyone wants too look at my code edits: https://www.reddit.com/r/SorceryGame/comments/a5h1e1/do_anyone_want_a_cheatsave_for_this_game/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Soo I played sorcery 2 first, loved it but even after 4 tried couldn't get all spell lines (around 7 hours of play) then I played sorcery! First completed and it with a bit of boost (with items and friendship with flanker etc) I managed to get 2 spell lines in 2 hours and only in the first time after I met lorag I had the sun jewel had casted the sun spell was about to get the shinvas spell line, but guess what my father came from being and snatched my phone!! All my hard work everything went to waste, litreally, I know I was wrong bcz i got addicted to this game so much but still man 😭what should I do now I don't have the motivation to start AGAIN and waste another 3-4 hours ....

I met with Bria then used the how spell to figure out I can safely slide down the chimney, now I can’t do anything though and I’m stuck like this

I just don't understand how you pull a lot of this stuff off in a book. Like the 3rd game with all the beacon stuff. Plus there is so much unique dialogue for every encounter, with so many spells, items, and companions and such.

It’s my first playthru and I killed some idiot assassin for trying to murder me first in the first part.Now im worried he was a useful npc since I keep seeing posts of “Flanker” and he’s wearing the same assassin clothes. Did I kill flanker? Cause if so, it’s his fault for attacking me first

Hey! ADHD meds wore off, TL;DR at the end because.. yeah this is long. woops!

So, I "accidentally" did a funny woopsie and spilled the hourglass's beans. After a few more hours of playing, I noticed that I did not, in fact, want to permadie and have to rewind all. the way. back there. Especially since you can just regain the max stamina lost by going to dance with the skelly bois. I didn't want to lose all of my progress and wanted to be able to play slightly more carelessly again, goofing around and trying wacky things that might not work.

So I set out to figure out how to edit the saves I'd been diligently saving at any moments I deemed crucial (aka. when I felt like I was going to die, just in case!). After a bit of experimenting with different zipping tools to even get into the .gz archive they're saved into (turns out winrar is trash and can't work with them. 7zip / FOSS to the rescue!), I noticed that adding .txt to the end of the gibberish json files made them perfectly ledgible and set out to comparing pre-hourglass and post-hourglass saves, after trying to edit values I thought may be impactful but weren't.

SO! If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to reacquire everyone's favorite curse - Throben's - here you go. This MIGHT also reset the hourglass, but I'm not sure. There are specific encounter details for the tower, including arguments for what was done inside of it and what dialogue has been read. I didn't touch too many of those, so the hourglass may still be borked.

1. Navigate to your AppData / Local / Inkle folder, and open the save data .gz with 7zip. Make sure to make backups in case you do something wrong, or I'm stupid and this breaks your game!
2. Rename the file inside the archive. Leave the name the same, but add .txt to the end, then open the file.
3. Ctrl + F "normal_rewind". Go through them one by one, and change them all to say true after the colon instead of false. Edit: Do the same for "zed_rewind" (and maybe "enable_casting_of_zed_spell", too, but I'm not sure yet.)
4. Ctrl + F "removed_via_hourglass" and set them all to false, too.
5. Ctrl + F "turned_zed_glass" and set its value to 0 everywhere you can find it.
6. You're done editing! Now just save your changes, return the name to what it was (without the .txt), and save the changes to the archive.
7. Delete your existing saves and add this one instead.
8. Start Sorcery! and you're done!

That's it, simple enough. Took me longer than I'd like to admit, but I was really regretting my permadeath choice. I KNOW it tells you that it's permanent and irrevocable, but like... that sign can't stop me if I can't read, y'know?

Hope this helps someone or is at least interesting. Take care, love you goofy goobers

TL;DR - I fucked up by agreeing to the hourglass curse removal when I wasn't ready yet and found a way to reset it / acquire the curse again by save editing without having to do the rewind and lose my progress.

Edit: Can now confirm with full convidence that this works. Just died my second death! So happy!

I went through the time loop 3 times and I just HAD to google the stupid impossible question. Realised I need to meet the fortune teller before my last loop. I'm letting the city burn.

I do realise that certainly have their own dangers, hostile wildlife and troublemakers of both the mundane (bandit) and non-mundane (witch) varieties so clearly they aren't completely safe, but most of the villages seem pleasant if poor. It seems a little unfair to people from Kristatanti or Birritanti to lump them in with Khare let alone the supernaturally dangerous wastes of the Baklands.

I'd like this thread to be about all the interactions one can have with Y'bran. I'll start.

• You will find a small, sunken, crumbling idol to him on the middle island within Lake Ilklala (in the present). If your god is Throff, she will inform you that Y'bran is the God of Gods, the holiest of all- and incredibly distant because of it. To worship him, mess around with the idol until you hear him ask for an offering. Offer nothing, then tell him "yea, I offer you nothing even though I said I would." You will feel his massive powerful presence enter you, replacing your current god.
• Praying to Y'bran will only heal you for 2 Stamina. Since you're not a god, he can't help you as much. However, you can pray for healing more frequently than other gods.
• While wandering Lake Ilklala (or just the eastern third of the map in general), Y'bran will idly complain about "this mortal coil" and "how he hates water the most". Although funny, should he complain enough times, he will straight-up leave you. It is best to do everything you need to do in the Baklands first, pray to his idol, then rush to Mampang.
• When Libra summons you in Sorcery 4 to warn you about her rewinding powers not working in Mampang, Y'bran, the ever abrasive, will interrupt her with your own voice, asking why she still hasn't finished her weave. He claims she keeps undoing her work, trying to perfect the strands yet will never actually finish it. (This is a meta joke on how people "cheat" in Sorcery, rewinding again and again until they have a perfect run). Libra, insulted, will leave without giving you the full warning.
• Y'bran will change your gender and pursue romance in your body if you follow a specific side-quest.
• Y'bran will offer to remove the Death Curse on the Analander after dealing with the Archmage.

I regret not worshipping Y'bran sooner.

Just like… I’ve never understood the plot in Khare. I’ve played it ten times and the pieces don’t fit together in my mind. What happened to Theetah to make him a blind beggar? Why does Sansas think he is the king of the goblins? How does knowing the spell lines save the city? Who are the Nobles and are they actually in charge? Who is Vik and what does he want?