Empty Hand Mage
A downloadable game for Windows
You are a wizarding pupil, opposed to your masters wasteful spell-hoarding tendencies. Prove to him, that the less you have the more powerful you can be and become an Empty Hand Mage!

Featuring:
- Two bosses (the darling Bandit Quing and the evilerest Wizard Master)!
- Two biomes (normal and red forest - they are toootaly different, promise)!
- Four normal enemies (if you consider trees with multiple eyes normal)!
- (Barely) Over 20+ unique cards!
- Rogue-lite progression (that's actually nice)!
- Voice "acting" with a diverse cast (one person)!
How to play:
Click on the green markers on the map to move there following the paths. In combat you can either play a card from your hand or draw one from the deck. You become more powerful with fewer cards - less than 3 cards gives you a 2x multiplier and having only one card, boosts it to 10x! When looting, you can choose which card to draw to your hand - it also becomes unlocked for your futre runs. To pass through the gates at the end of a biome, you need to have less cards in your hand than the number in the gate (Biome 1 - 3 Cards, Biome 2 - 0 Cards). Good luck!
Credits
- Dimi
- Finley
- Hans
- Patrick
- Special Thanks to Johannes!!!
"Adventures in Adventureland", "Ancient Rite", "Gothamlicious", "Magic Escape Room", "New Hero in Town" and "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Authors | Finley, a.woundwort |
| Genre | Card Game |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
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Development log
- Small bugfixes after the jam!Apr 15, 2026




Comments
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Also got stuck not knowing to click the green dot, but so glad i found out in time, because i loved this game. Really cool and so fun voice acting. "listen here you lil shit"
Thanks for playing!!! Did you manage to beat the wizard?? So far only 2 people I know have made it, so it is def possible!
I did, but I did not have 0 cards for the gate right after ;)
Nice! I think the "road" tiles should probably be thinner so it looks more like a dotted line/path between nodes. I was stuck for a bit trying to to click the road tile right infront of me :)
Cool art and mechnics! Good job!
Thanks for playing! Yeah, if we ever work on it again, we should really improve the readability of the map :)