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Mind Over Magic

86% positive of 4,333 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Sparkypants. Published by Klei Publishing.

About the game

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Tagged by players

  • Colony Sim
  • Dragons
  • Nonlinear
  • Tactical RPG
  • Base Building
  • Building
  • Strategy RPG
  • Economy
  • Crafting
  • Survival
  • Management
  • Procedural Generation

What players say

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Don't. Maybe if it had a better tutorial (or EXPLAINED ANYTHING) it might be worth it, but you're basically going to be beating your head against a brick wall for HOURS before anything starts making any semblance of sense. Voidshrooms popping up repeatedly and you don't know why (it's lack of light, fwiw)? No clue on how to build horizontally? Well fuck me, neither do I, and I don't think the game is gonna tell me!…

    6 h played when written. 38 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    TLDR: Rating 85/100 I enjoy the game. Looking at the number of hours, it seems a bit more than I expected but hey, time flies when you are having fun. The game has a mix of colony management (primary focus) and turn base combat (secondary focus, but it's impactfull). You manage your school of magic. Initially, building some basic facilities and gathering basic resources is your main focus. As the game progresses,…

    363 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.

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