Indie

Mind Over Magic

86% positive of 4,333 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: 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.

What sets it apart

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

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Indie

Mind Over Magic

86% positive of 4,333 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam

Made by Sparkypants. Published by Klei Publishing.

About the game

What sets it apart

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

What players say

Recommended
Solid base management and party-based gameplay lacking in some QOL and mechanical depth. PROS: Creative build synergies, interesting construction challenges, and no need to micromanage resources. The normal difficulty is satisfying, and leaves enough room for error to mess up some mechanics. I never felt the need to start a new run after screwing up and letting a mage die, while still feeling pressured to calculate…
72 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Quite good. Pretty deep gameplay. Much of the appeal of Don't Starve or Oxygen Not Included, but I find this a bit more enjoyable perhaps because of the base building aspects. Months of play to be had in this game, I'm pretty impressed... definitely deserving of more attention than it's gotten so far. Particularly fun going into October, there's a bit of a halloween "Nightmare Before Christmas" vibe to this title.…
4.1 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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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. 0 found it helpful.
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