Uncover Renaissance Italy's magical secrets to solve your master's murder!
About The Magician's Workshop
The Magician's Workshop is a role playing app developed by Choice of Games LLC.
Download Statistics
The Magician's Workshop has been downloaded 9.1 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 5 times.
User Ratings
The Magician's Workshop is rated 3.65 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 72 ratings.
App Information
The Magician's Workshop is FREE to download. The APK download size is 6.20 MB. The latest version available is 1.0.20. The last update was on January 5, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The Magician's Workshop requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play December 2019.
Description
When your master is murdered, you must uncover the magical secrets of Renaissance Italy, before your rival apprentices expose them first!
The Magician’s Workshop is a 190,000-word interactive historical fantasy novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. In 1512, Florence is known for ruthless politics, art, and magic. Now that the infamous Medici banking family is back in power, the city is full of dangerous secrets. What would the treacherous Machiavelli do in a situation like this? Just ask him in person!
When your master's body washes up in the Arno river, you must take over his Maria Novella workshop—the designs, the paintings, the marvelous machines and inventions, and most importantly, his book of spells, written in various ciphers and magical invisible inks. You have inherited a roster of dangerous clients who are losing patience, and two rival apprentices who could prove allies or even lovers, if they don't turn on you to wrest the workshop from your hands.
Can you use your skills in the arts or sciences to gain allies and buy time? Are you quick enough with a blade to keep yourself safe in the streets? Are you clever enough to decode the master's instructions to build a terrible new machine, and are you ruthless enough to sell it to the highest bidder? Or will you work together with your fellow apprentices to build the machine in secret and use it to bring stability to the city, and to all of Italy?
• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, asexual, or poly. • Use alchemy, animation and soothsaying to create magical entertainments, win street fights and impress your clients • Design and build a flying machine, an unbreakable vault, a wall-breaking weapon, an enchanted pen and ink for a philosopher, or a refillable gold purse for bribes • Uncover the secrets of Florence and rise to power in your own workshop, leading your own team of magicians and artists • Meet famous historical figures such as Niccolo Machiavelli and the future Pope Leo X • Paint a fresco in the public square, escape your enemies in a boat chase on the Arno River, or just play cards and talk politics in the taverns of Florence
The master made dark sacrifices to learn what he knew. Are you prepared to do the same?
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A good read indeed. Some bugs in the choice scripts are made, which would really annoy people from completely enjoying it. If I remember correctly some paths are completely inaccessible like the choice to stay at the workshop or leave the city. But I enjoyed it thoroughly, partly because I fixed the mistakes in choice script to enjoy those routes and choices. Sorry for messing with your choice script code though, but it was completely for personal use.
★★★★☆Adam Young· Oct 17, 2020
I actually purchased this book. You are an apprentice in a shop during the Age of Enlightenment. Your master dies and now it is up to you to try to run the shop. This story was interesting and well written. There were so many characters in game it was hard to keep track of them all. This strikes me as a period piece staged during the renaissance. Lots of characters in this that are actually real life people of history. It's a decent read even thought the plot can sometimes be a bit dry.
★★☆☆☆TGW Turner· Dec 21, 2019
Every time I run the game it lets me play for about half a munite and Then freezes and crashes, the story looks interesting so far, but it would be nice to be able to play the game...
★☆☆☆☆Stephanie Keeler· Dec 21, 2019
There's a serious bug during the decision for the workshop leadership at the choice to stay on at the workshop as an assistant. You can avoid leaving the city and be offered the choice repeatedly. Without bug would rate 4 stars.
★☆☆☆☆Erik Canady· Feb 23, 2020
I went through the whole story thinking if I didn't get to be Master I'd stay, but that's not even an option. Why even tell your character that that's an option if the story won't let you pick it? Ruined the whole story for me.
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