
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.
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Mind Over Magic is a colony simulation game developed by Sparkypants and published by Klei Publishing.
Build and optimize a magic school while keeping powerful mages alive and inspired. Prepare them to explore the horrors of the Underschool, a deadly subterranean gauntlet. Study lost arcana, grow exotic plants, brew potions, and raise undead servants. But don’t forget to stop the deadly fog from consuming everything in its path.
Build the ultimate magic school, brick by brick. Design every room to fit your vision. Unlock new furniture, wallpaper, lighting, and decorations to personalize every detail. Experiment with layouts to discover hidden efficiency bonuses and create the perfect balance of design and function.
Beneath your school lies a mysterious labyrinth filled with dark secrets, deadly magic, and ghastly creatures. The deeper you explore, the greater the rewards—but danger doesn’t always stay underground.
Research and discover mystical beasts to serve your school and unlock powerful new resources. These creatures require food, affection, and magical care to grow into valuable allies, providing rare materials for crafting and construction.
If you're truly ambitious, tackle the challenge of raising a dragon to aid your school. Dragons demand specialized students to become caretakers, but in return, they grant your mages the ability to embark on daring quests beyond the school walls—uncovering secrets, gaining unique powers, and shaping the future of your academy.
Bend the arcane to your will. Practitioners of Dark magic animate undead helpers known as Quilted—specialized constructs that gather resources, tend to plants, repair damage to your school, and mine valuable materials.
Make the most of your day by reducing travel time in your ever-growing campus with the power of flight. Strategically place broom racks to make traversal a breeze.
Enhance your students abilities with powerful gear, such as potions, relics, and increasingly powerful wands, each granting distinct magical advantages. Customize their daily schedules and assign teachers to shape their magical growth.
Magic isn’t just for combat—what your students learn and the tools they wield also determine how effectively they contribute to your school’s daily operations. Build a curriculum that fosters the ability to both survive and thrive.
Shape the future of magic by customizing your students' education. Apprenticed students can multiclass to wield a diverse array of spells, or strive towards single discipline mastery to unlock devastating ultimate abilities, powerful enough to face the dangers of the Nexus.
Reality is tenuous in the Nexus, a fractured realm of pure magic deep beneath the school. Your mages will need every advantage to battle powerful enemies, reconstitute its crumbling fragments, and break the curse for good. Train wisely, for only the most skilled mages can withstand the challenges that await beyond the veil.
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- Never enugh stone wich makes progress super slow. - You can make stone later with a refining beast but even that is slow and getting to that point takes time. So you are stucking looking at a bunch of muppets doing nothing while you are waiting for research to finish so you can build a stupid ass refining beast. - Also no reason for Gutberry planter to cost 16 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stone. - Aid pathing is horrible even at emergency level so moste students or mages will ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die before they get help. - some of the menus are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible too like the room goal menus was way better before. - it pisses me off so bad that such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good concept of a game gets shafted because some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot wants to change something.
I can see how a lot of people would like this, so giving it a recommend. it is a bit too stressful for me, has it has a steep learning curve and a LOT going on. have to turn the difficulty WAAAY down for me to enjoy it.
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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fun game but simple vs ONY. just wanted to be more complex magic system
4/10 Summary: + nice characters and building art + cool idea - terrible optimization: 12 core ryzen 9, 4080 super - cpu load 12%, gpu load 10 %.... 10-40 fps at 1920x1200 - overwhelming micromanagement since mid game - broken automation - quilted (local magical helper-drones) often stay "wating", when there are tons of corresponding tasks available and in pathing - most challenges be like "let's bump some numbers here and here"
Tedious gameplay loop, everything is a spreadsheet with dropdowns and sidebars, the first time you find and open the task scheduler for one of your wizards your heart just drops at how banal this game company makes mages and magic into. I felt like the first 5 hours I played Master Of Orion III and realized how awfully boring it was. I guess for some people this is exactly the game they want, but if you were hoping for a modern Majesty or Dungeon Keeper, keep walking, this ain't it.
Очень залипательная игра, где нужно в меру подумать. Контента предостаточно. Но в начале сложно, нужно будет несколько раз с нуля начинать прежде чем результат покажется удовлетворительным.
Very well polished game in terms of graphics... but the gameplay loop is just too boring. Progression is slow and tedious. Overly complicated in some things and too simplistic in others
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Surprised how much I was into this game. Folks say it's grindy, but I don't see it. Yes, you have to build up resources but it doesn't take that long. Just build more planting boxes and off you go. Folks may not be into the combat and I can see the divide there, however I fell into the camp that it was a welcomed distraction from the building. I liked using the mages I built up to do some light dungeon diving. Not a lot you can mess up. Make mistakes and it's not game ending. You just learn, make the necessary adjustments, and keep moving forward. All in all -> Recommended.
Se você já é fã de longa data do catálogo da Klei, sabe que a empresa tem um dom para entregar (e publicar) jogos com uma identidade única e mecânicas extremamente viciantes. Mind Over Magic definitivamente não foge a essa regra! O jogo carrega toda aquela essência de qualidade que já esperamos e amamos. Visual Lindo e Cartoonizado: A direção de arte é um show à parte. O jogo apresenta gráficos cartoonizados que são incrivelmente charmosos e detalhados. A forma como a escola de magia, os professores e os alunos são desenhados cria uma atmosfera que mistura um tom levemente sombrio com algo muito fofo e acolhedor. É aquele estilo visual que não cansa os olhos e te faz querer admirar cada nova sala construída. Atualizações Constantes e Excelentes: O suporte que o jogo recebe é impecável. O desenvolvimento conta com updates sempre muito bons, que não apenas fazem ajustes de rotina, mas trazem melhorias reais de qualidade de vida e novos conteúdos. É muito gratificante acompanhar um jogo onde você sente que a equipe continua se importando e expandindo o universo. Super Leve e Bem Otimizado: Um dos maiores trunfos de Mind Over Magic é a sua acessibilidade técnica. O jogo é extremamente leve e roda de forma lisa e sem engasgos. É perfeito para relaxar e focar no gerenciamento e na expansão da sua escola sem ter que se preocupar com um computador superaquecendo ou sofrendo com quedas de desempenho. Veredito: Para quem já confia de olhos fechados na curadoria dos jogos da Klei, Mind Over Magic é um acerto em cheio. É um simulador de colégio mágico envolvente, lindo de se olhar e que continua ficando cada vez melhor a cada atualização. Altamente recomendado para quem ama gerenciar e construir nesse estilo
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