
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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Complex and strangely addictive! I did not expect the learning curve and depth. Or the stranglehold this thing has had on me for days.
It's a cozy and more relaxed Oxygen Not Included. Good pacing, surprisingly challenging to try to hack together a school with the silly room requirements. The game naturally rewards building a wonky looking thematic school which I love.
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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死了不救看着死 白玩 这BUG
I am writing my second review ever in support of this excellent game. I have more fun playing it, especially on the hardest difficulty, than almost any other game in my extensive library right now. It's very creative, the style and design are first-rate, and the difficulty, complexity, and variety ramp up very well over time. I'm a huge fan and greatly hope that more work goes into the game. DLC or follow-ups from the developer in the future to extend replayability and make the game as profitable as possible for the folks who put their time into this would be perfect and I would buy DLC instantly in support of this product.
优化有点差,后期帧数骤降,其他还行
Лайтовее Oxygen not included, подходит как промежуточный вариант. Начать с этой игры, освоиться с основными механиками, а потом перейти на незадыхайку.
If you haven't played these types of games before, good fricking luck... the "tutorial" is not present despite setting that you want a tutorial. This is definitely not for gamers who looks to get into these types of games.
Really enjoying this game. Punches a lot of buttons for time and resource management. Have had a bit of a rough time knowing where to go next, or why some things are or aren't happening. Figuring out how to do rooms has been fun. Still seems I have a long way to go.
Legend!
A small, extraordinary gem in the vast sea of Steam indie games. A well-balanced mix of gameplay, ideas, and a truly successful setting that guarantees hours and hours of gameplay without ever getting bored or tired! Personally, I hope the development team cares as much as the gaming community does, and that they enrich it with new elements in the future! _____ _____ Una piccola, straordinaria perla nel mare magnum dei giochi indie di Steam. Un mix equilibrato di dinamiche, idee, ambientazione molto ben riuscito che garantisce ore e ore di gioco senza mai annoiarsi o stancarsi! Personalmente spero che il team di sviluppo lo abbia così a cuore come lo ha a cuore la community di gioco e che lo arricchiscano con nuovi elementi in futuro!
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