Muse Ingenium

Tiles fall. You swipe to spell words. The letters fly from the grid to the page, and a real literary masterwork takes shape beneath your fingers, written through you. Muse Ingenium is a cozy roguelite that hides a deckbuilder's worth of strategic depth inside a swipe-to-spell word game.

Ten real authors, ten masterpieces

Every run is themed around one of ten authors, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alexandre Dumas, and their complete, unabridged, public domain text. No excerpts, no invented lore:

The Raven · The Art of War · Romeo and Juliet · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Frankenstein · The Odyssey · Pride and Prejudice · Little Women · The Count of Monte Cristo

All fully playable, all verified complete against the original published works. Twelve volumes take you through the same ten authors again and again, each pass harder than the last, taking you further into their masterpieces, so the game you finish is not the game you started.

Build a mental writing machine

Your goal is to surpass the WPM (words per minute) target for each writing session before time runs out.

• Cognitions: dozens of equippable abilities slotted into your mind's loadout to boost your WPM. Earn new ones one at a time from the author whose book you are transcribing.
• Familiars: passive word-finders that reveal a letter, a word, a line, or a whole paragraph at a time depending on their tier.
• Heirlooms: powerful author-themed bonuses, one earned at random every time you complete a full volume.

Synergistic systems reward the kind of genuine build discovery you rarely find in a word game.

A cozy roguelite

You conduct the author's words. Between rounds, the Author's Studio lets you spend your Sparks on permanent upgrades and assemble a loadout for writing.

Progress saves at page granularity, so you can drop in for a quick five-minute writing session and not lose progress when you step away.

Your personal library

Every classic you unlock stays unlocked, permanently. Visit the Reading Room, where a real, properly formatted library of the actual books you are transcribing is readable at your own pace.

Unlock Marathon mode, the ultimate challenge for the strongest minds, where you assemble your most powerful loadout and attempt to transcribe the entirety of an author's work in a single run. Can you transcribe all 1,500 pages of The Count of Monte Cristo?

Music composed in-house, then produced with Suno AI. Manuscript texts are public-domain works via Project Gutenberg. Sound effects by Kenney.nl (CC0).