Solasta: Crown of the Magister

The most faithful 5e adaptation on PC

Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a turn-based, party-based tactical RPG from the small Paris studio Tactical Adventures, built directly on the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition System Reference Document (SRD 5.1) under the Open Gaming License. Where most CRPGs bend the tabletop rules to fit a video game, Solasta leans the other way — initiative order, advantage and disadvantage, reactions, opportunity attacks, prepared spells and concentration checks are all implemented close to the letter of the rulebook.

You roll up a full party of four adventurers rather than a single protagonist, and each one speaks and reacts in their own voice throughout the campaign, giving the party banter the feel of a real tabletop group.

What sets it apart

• Verticality in combat. Solasta’s dungeons are true 3D spaces — you climb, jump, fly, drop boulders, and shoot from high ground. Line of sight, lighting, and elevation all matter to the tactics.
• Dice-honest mechanics. Rolls are shown on screen; the game wears its 5e math openly rather than hiding it behind percentages.
• A built-in dungeon maker. A custom-scenario tool lets players build and share their own adventures.
• Heavy post-launch support. Expansions Primal Calling, Lost Valley, Inner Strength, and the Palace of Ice campaign added ancestries, subclasses, and a higher level cap over two years.

Reception

Solasta drew generally favorable reviews (Metacritic 77), with critics praising its tactical combat and rules fidelity as an excellent on-ramp for D&D newcomers, while finding the writing and production values a step below the genre’s biggest names. It built a devoted following as the closest thing to running an actual 5e session on a PC — a reputation that set the stage for its sequel.