The Magus Circle Updates Hub

This hub is the news desk for The Magus Circle, the single-player survival roguelite from By Witchlight. Steam app 2796640 still sits in a coming-soon state. The store lists 24 September 2026 as the planned date for the full game on Windows, macOS, and Linux. That listing can move. We copy the store, then we wait for the studio to confirm in public posts. We do not treat a calendar tile as a ship notice.

If you arrived here from a search for patch notes, pause. The full product is not a live service with weekly hotfixes yet. What we can track honestly is the demo window, the Steam Next Fest recap, the Korea development trip, and the public promises By Witchlight made after more than 21,000 players stepped into the circle. For the date itself, open the release date page. For the February festival, open the Next Fest recap. For the mid-September store window, INDIECRAFT banner, and wishlist chatter, open launch week.

What this hub covers

• The live Steam listing versus what the studio has actually said.
• The demo that opened on 23 February 2026 (app 4289390), including the Very Positive score from 163 reviews at 98%.
• The community post titled “That’s Steam Next Fest!” and the follow-up work the team named: bug fixes, more characters, more maps, more spells, more upgrades, more hub activities, and more sass from Curio.
• Where to watch for the next official word: Steam, Discord, YouTube, the studio site, and an optional Patreon.

What this hub does not cover: invented roadmaps, leaked builds, or a Trello. No public Trello is confirmed. If someone pastes a board link in a comment, treat it as unofficial until By Witchlight posts it on Steam, bywitchlight.com, or the Discord invites listed on our links page.

How we date facts

Store pages change quietly. A planned date can sit for months, then jump. A demo can remain listed or vanish from the storefront after a festival. This wiki therefore uses careful verbs:

• The full game: Steam lists 24 September 2026.
• The demo: opened on 23 February 2026 for Steam Next Fest.
• Review snapshot: Very Positive, 163 reviews, 98% at the time we recorded the festival recap.
• Platforms on the store: Windows, macOS, Linux, with Family Sharing listed as a category and single-player as the mode. Languages: English and Korean.

Price is not listed yet. Do not expect a number on this hub. If Steam adds one, the release date page is the first place we will write it down.

Studio context worth tracking

By Witchlight is a small team. Names attached on Steambase include Sean Porio, Dayoon Lee, and Kevin Ray (often KevDev). The studio grew after a Smilegate-sponsored stay in Korea and a Play for X booth. That trip is not flavor text. It is the stretch when the roster headed toward six playable mages, extra maps, and a larger spell list — the same stretch previewed in the Korea video on the date page.

Between runs you will still be a lone mage. There is no second player to draw sigils with you. Build talk belongs on the tier list, spell rankings, character rankings, and upgrade rankings. Hands-on practice belongs in Guides, especially Getting Started, How to Draw Spells, How to Play, How to Beat Bosses, and the demo notes.

Where to look after you read the two sub-pages

1. Wishlist and follow the full game on Steam, then run the wishlist checklist.
2. Confirm your rig against system requirements. The store quotes 500 MB; Next Fest demo downloads were about 2.2 GB. Keep extra space.
3. If you are practicing sigils, use the spell sigils lookup rather than guessing shapes.
4. Meet the demo faces on the players hub: Milk, Rum, and Matcha.
5. Bookmark this wiki and the links index so you are not hunting invite codes in old screenshots.

If you only have five minutes, read the date page, skim Next Fest, then leave with a wishlist click. The Tide will still be there when the store listing flips. Stretch your casting hand in the meantime.