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Build a magical academy, train and manage mages, hold back a creeping fog, and send teams into a turn-based dungeon.
Released 12 Feb 2025
Design Puzzle Rooms
Train Student Mages
Fight Turn-Based Battles
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.
Developed by Sparkypants · Published by Klei Publishing
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
At a cursed magic school threatened by a deadly fog, you take charge of building an academy and preparing its mages to confront the dangers beneath it. Keep the school operating and work toward breaking the curse.
Design rooms to meet specific shape and furnishing requirements, then manage resources, research, crafting, and daily schedules. Recruit students, teach them magic, and decide which to train further as apprentices or hire as staff.
Send mage teams into the Underschool for turn-based battles and rewards. Develop their magical disciplines and equip them with wands, potions, and relics; you can also research magical beasts and raise them to support the school.
Players who enjoy the game often highlight the unusual room-building puzzles, the magical-school setting, and the satisfaction of shaping a growing academy. Reviews also praise developing distinct mages and exploring the Underschool’s turn-based combat. Others say that complex requirements, rebuilding, and slow resource or training progress can make the experience feel tedious, especially later on.
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.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 82 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
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