
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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wizards are cool.
Don’t mind this. This review is just to get the badge.
Pretty fun and unique take on the harvest/build/defend concept. There's a lot of ideas here from other games, with a lot less overall complexity as well.
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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Good, a bit laggy sadly
This game was not developed by Klei but published by Klei with obvious inspiration by ONI. If you want a fresh take on base building, with QoL and UI similar to ONI, some exploration, some combat, complexity by dependencies rather than artificial hurdles, a bit of kind of automation, then this game is for you. It is not another ONI but it doesn't try to be. It is an above average game. People just have wrong expectations because they read Klei and expect ONI 2
9 / 10 ! Amazing management game..! One of the best..!! Everything just feels right in this game... And the depth they added to the grid is something new to me.! Great work..!!!
It's a decently fun little ditty. Great for spending too much time on menial tasks, forgetting to eat or go to bathroom. Micromanagement, macromanagement, management, clicky clicky. Currently reinstalling cause need something to click on while doing other things.
I love this game. I really liked Oxygen Not Included, but it got a little too technical for me. This game you still have to plan and research but if something goes wrong it doesn't feel like you have to start again.
Exploration is one of the game’s strongest aspects. Pushing through the next door, descending deeper into a dungeon, or stepping beyond a fog wall is consistently engaging, driven by a strong sense of mystery. The magical theme is well executed, with buildings, creatures, and environments forming a cohesive and immersive world. Designing and managing your magical school is both fascinating and challenging. Resource management, automation, and optimization create an enjoyable puzzle, though the game can feel overwhelming at first due to the many menus, research paths, furniture, resources, and recipes. This initial complexity ultimately highlights how deep the systems are. The game functions as a sandbox with no real way to lose the game, allowing players to progress at their own pace. Combat is turn-based and satisfying, with plenty of room to experiment through different mage and item combinations. Mages themselves feel relatable, and watching them develop through various events helps create an emotional connection to the playable characters.
Enjoyed this game very much! Love the atmosphere, mechanics, exploration! I was surprised how good it is!
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