Magic Archers

Magic Archers is a game in which players progress through a set of levels defeating enemies by shooting arrows at them. The gameplay takes place on one screen, with the player characters starting on the left and waves of enemies emerging to attack the player from the right. The player controls three characters who stand on top of boxes that grant special abilities. Each of the player's three characters shoot arrows in an arch, and the player can both adjust the angle of the shots up and down, as well as control when the shots are fired by pressing a button. The waves of enemies rush at the player and attempt to destroy the boxes, and once all boxes that a player's character is standing on are destroyed, the enemies have access to attacking and killing that character directly. The player wins the level if all of the oncoming enemies are defeated, and a meter is present in the corner of the gameplay screen tracking how much time remains until the waves of enemies are completed.

Each of the three player characters only receives the special abilities from the boxes while they are standing on top of them, so once the box is destroyed, that character no longer receive the benefits. Usually only one of the benefits can be activated at a time (such as ice arrows vs fire arrows) while some are passive (such as shields). Later in the game, special one time use powers can be unlocked as well. The following abilities can be granted by standing on different boxes:

• Yellow boxes - increase damage and speed of the player's attacks
• Blue boxes - shoots an "ice arrow" that slows enemies down.
• Red boxes - shoots a "fire arrow" that increases enemies' speed, but causes continuous burn damage
• Green boxes - act as a shield that allows the box to take more damage from enemies than normal, as well as temporarily "dazing" any nearby enemies when the box is destroyed.