Magna Carta 2 is a role-playing game that combines real-time exploration with turn-based combat. The game follows Juto, a character who suffers from amnesia but has a secret power within him. After his friend Melissa and the islanders are killed by the Northern Forces on a highwind island, Juto sets out to seek revenge and joins the Southern Forces' Counter Sentinel Unit to find the man responsible for Melissa's death.
The gameplay involves initiating combat sequences seamlessly in the environment, which relies on a stamina and combo system. The player can create combos and switch characters to chain together larger attacks, managing a stamina meter that fills up during attacks. When the stamina is full, the character becomes overheated, forcing the player to initiate a chain by switching to another character. By timing these switches carefully, the effect can be negated, allowing for longer combos and more damage on enemies.
Defeating monsters rewards players with Kamonds, which are used to power up weapons and create new items when a new recipe is bought or discovered.