Maguntsche Chapter One

About this game

It's Halloween Night in the small town of Macungie, a historic community in the Northeastern region of Pennsylvania. A sudden power outage has plunge the streets of this town into darkness. As the hands of supernatural forces manipulate your reality, you seek a means of escape. After what seems like an endless struggle, you discover what seems to be fragments of your reality. By collecting these fragments from the depths of the Realmverse, you can slowly piece together your escape from this mirrored prison. The Realmverse is a constantly-changing maze.


The Maguntsche Demon is a dark entity with only one goal in mind. As you explore the Realmverse, this demonic creature is out for your blood and will do anything to stop you from collecting the reality fragments. Your only line of defense against The Maguntsche Demon is your flashlight. This tool has limited usability and could potentially anger the entities of the Realmverse more. It is important to use your environment and flashlight wisely to your advantage.


The archives provides additional stories and tales to explore within The Maguntsche universe. The Maguntsche Archives is updated with new volumes regularly. Pieces of these stories can be discovered as documents found in both Maguntsche Mode and Superior Mode. The location of these entries is randomized each play-through to provide additional replay-ability in completing the various volumes of the archives.


Superior Mode provides a unique set of challenge-based gameplay elements and online leaderboard integration. Players can stack up to three different challenges. These challenges provide additional bonuses to the player's score. Superior Mode is endless, and features a variety of different levels to explore. New challenges are to be implemented in the future, with the possibility of new environments to explore in the future as well.


The future of Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered is bright. We are planning various free content updates to provide new features, gameplay, and quality of life improvements. In the first months of our release, we provided two major content updates. This included a massive overhaul of the game's art, a new game mode, and improvements to the replay-ability of our primary experiences.

Latest news

• Announcements·29 Aug 2025Official

  Maguntsche Chapter Two Releases This Fall & Free Demo Coming Soon!

  Get ready to descend back into the darkness. We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Maguntsche: Chapter Two on October 23, 2025!We've been hard at work building upon the foundation of the first game to bring you a truly terrifying and immersive experience with all all-new story, improved graphics, and new gameplay!Investigate and Survive: Scour the derelict industrial complex for clues, hidden documents, and resources. What you uncover will piece together the horrifying truth behind your new employer and determine how your story ends.A World Within a World: The warehouse is a place where two realities are stitched together. At critical moments, or when your sanity breaks, you will be pulled into the Realmverse—a dark, mirrored dimension with its own hostile logic. To escape, you must collect scattered Reality Fragments while being relentlessly hunted by the infamous Maguntsche Demon.Hack the System: Your technical expertise is a weapon. Hunt for encrypted disks and security passes and use them at security terminals to upgrade your clearance, unlocking new areas and revealing sensitive data. The required computer work varies in difficulty, testing your skills as you delve deeper into the company's network.Free Demo at Steam NextFest:Can't wait to get your hands on it? A free demo of the game's prologue will be available during Steam NextFest, starting October 13th, 2025. This is your chance to experience the first level and get a taste of the horror to come. You can wishlist the demo here:
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• Patch Notes·7 Jul 2022Official

  The Anniversary Update is Available Now!

  Welcome to The Anniversary Update {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40443391/d5f4c21a01e84366bb9b948d1b855360e83a95ef.png Earlier last month, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered's release here on Steam. It's been a wonderful year, and our team is very proud of all of the content we've been able to dish out for the game over the course of that year. This includes the Further Descent Update, The Superior Reign Update, Winter Update, and all of those smaller updates in between that have improved our game's experience. We want to thank all of our players for supporting our first major indie release here on Steam and we are thrilled to share more information about our future plans. Till then, we give you the final update for Maguntsche Remastered. Update Patch Notes New Difficulty Options & Demonic Mode for Maguntsche Mode! We are introducing a variety of new difficulty options for Maguntsche Mode, one of which includes Demonic mode. This new difficulty mode introduces new game mechanics and instant death scenarios designed for players looking for a new challenge! Each difficulty mode increases the speed, damage, and time duration between objectives. We look forward to seeing players try these new options out! New Volume 3 of The Maguntsche Archives! Explore an all new addition to the archives. Three college friends return to their hometown of Macungie, Pennsylvania, for the holidays. During a town-wide new years celebration, discoveries are made, and chaos brews. The Superior's grip on the town tightens. Will Ian, Logan, and Sarah be able to withstand its new recruits or will they become the latest victims of the dark forces infiltrating this small town? New Superior Mode Challenges! We've added the new Breakneck Quietus Challenge to Superior Mode! This new challenge reflects the new Demonic difficulty mode in Maguntsche Mode. Players can now experience a new instant-death scenario with higher reward stakes! This will be the last new challenge ...
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• Patch Notes·24 Jun 2022Official

  Upcoming Anniversary Update & Price Change Announcement

  The Anniversary Update is Coming Soon! Earlier this week, we celebrated the one year anniversary of Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered here on Steam. We have been working extensively on a final update to add some new content and promote some new quality of life changes that we believe will benefit all players. The past year has been a great experience and we'll have a more formal message later to address our players and supporters. Switching to a Free-To-Play Pricing To celebrate this moment, we have collectively decided as a team to make Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered a free game for all Steam users. As a small team of developers, this project remains more a passion that we intend to share with as many people as possible. For now, if you'd like to continue to financially support our efforts, you can buy the game while its discounted for the next two weeks during this year's Steam Summer Sale. Otherwise, we'll be making the game free sometime in July. We'll have more details on our upcoming update soon, have a great weekend everyone and thank you for your support in the past year. Best Regards, Kaleb Wassa Lead Developer GlassDev Entertainment {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40443391/36ff6dc8888b50f324762369979abe5e50a17556.png
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• Patch Notes·21 Mar 2022Official

  Small Update [0.3.2] is Available Now!

  Hello everyone, this small update is primarily focusing on quality-of-life improvements and fixing some bugs. We hope you enjoy some of these small changes. The week-long discount has also ended, but we are planning new discounts in the future! Below you can see a summary of changes in this update. New Features & Improvements Updated the Main Menu with a new environment and implemented audio track transitions for the Maguntsche Mode and Superior Mode. Updated Maguntsche Mode's in-game description, removed outdated tutorial. Added a button shortcut to Maguntsche: Chapter Two's page on our official website. We implemented a major change to the random seed generation algorithm that should result in a greater variety of level combinations and randomness which will ultimately improve the experience of both Maguntsche and Superior Mode. Implemented some small changes to the lower quality graphic settings which may provide a small boost in performance to low-end systems. Some of these changes include reducing particle ray casting budgets and shadow distances. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue that caused the same difficulty buff to be applied to the Maguntsche Demon's stats when reaching time milestones in Superior Mode. Fixed an issue that resulted in the game generating the same level variant combination every match in Maguntsche Mode. You should now find more unique level combinations and better replay-ability. Fixed an exploitative issue that caused the Maguntsche Demon to be slowed down by the flashlight even when disabled using the Total Darkness challenge modifier in Superior Mode. Known Issues We are still investing a potential memory leak issue with Superior Mode that progressively gets worse as the player gains score. Please be aware that the game will crash and could potentially cause other issues with your system. Our hope is to diagnose the issue soon and to release another patch within the next couple of weeks. There is an issue with scene transitions that results in ...
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• Patch Notes·18 Mar 2022Official

  Upcoming Small Update [0.3.2] Releasing March 19th, 2022

  Hello everyone! It's been a couple of months since we released the Winter Quality of Life Update. To follow up, we will be releasing a small patch this weekend with some bug fixes we've discovered through recent testing. The details of this update will be released in our patch notes when the update goes live. This is all in preparation for another update we are planning later this year. This summer, we will be celebrating Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered's first year here on the Steam platform. This content update will be slighter smaller than some of the stuff we have released in the past but will still have some cool new features and improvements. After the release of this update, we will officially begin shifting focus towards developing Maguntsche: Chapter Two. We will have more details regarding this project once we have some newer content to share with players. Maguntsche: Chapter Two Development Update Maguntsche: Chapter Two is still early in the development process. Our team's goal is to release the game on Steam by the end of this year, but it is appearing more likely that another delay is imminent. Regardless, our team hopes that everyone will enjoying the remaining content that we have in store for Maguntsche: Chapter One Remastered on Steam.
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