Magical Diary: Horse Hall on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a visual novel, dating sim and female protagonist game developed and published by Hanako Games.
Released on May 31st 2012 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,014 reviews of which 916 were positive and 98 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.60€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Magical Diary: Horse Hall into these genres:

Visual Novel Dating Sim Female Protagonist Anime RPG Indie Fantasy Magic Adventure Otome Romance Character Customization Story Rich Singleplayer Choices Matter LGBTQ+ Simulation Dungeon Crawler Puzzle Turn-Based

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *:Windows XP
  • Processor:1GHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:DirectX compatible card
  • Hard Drive:150 MB HD space
MacOS
  • OS:10.4
  • Processor:1 GHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Hard Drive:150 MB HD space
Linux
  • Processor:1 GHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Hard Drive:150 MB HD space
  • Note: 32-bit compatibility libraries required on AMD64 and x86-64

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
I like when this kind of game gives you lots of choices and character customization. The character writting is also good
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April 2025
That stupid blue thing called me ugly, talentless and wished death on me, grrrr ༽◺_◿༼ But yes, I do agree that marrying your professor who is twice your age and is named Hieronymous is totally cool... Will do that again when the opportunity presents itself
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April 2025
the game has a morally black demon man simp and an old man btw
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Jan. 2025
Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a visual novel with RPG elements where you play as a new student at a magic school. You get to choose your character's name and appearance, then play through your character's freshman year and decide which skills and relationships to develop. You decide your character's schedule for the week, choosing either classes or other activities to raise your magic skill, smarts, strength, or decrease your stress. Your magic skills allow you to unlock spells, your strength and smarts determine your mana pool and health, and your stress affects your chances for success in class. Between classes, you'll experience different events and make choices that affect the way your story proceeds. Several times during the game, you'll have to take an exam, where you'll go to a dungeon and use your abilities to escape. You won't be given any information on what to do for the dungeons beforehand, so the first time around there's a chance you'll fail some of them, either by not knowing useful spells or by wasting mana or running out of health. You only get some demerits for failing an exam, so it isn't a big deal if you aren't able to pass all of them at first. There are multiple ways to solve each dungeon, so you aren't locked in to studying one particular set of spells if you want to pass all of them. It was fun figuring out different ways to get through each dungeon, although none of the puzzles were very difficult to figure out. There are six different character routes you can get during the game, five major and one minor. Three of them are pretty easy to get, you just have to make a point of talking to the character and being nice to them, but the other three are more finicky and require a more specific set of conditions. Most of the routes either have romantic or platonic variations, although they aren't hugely different either way. I generally liked all of the routes, although there were definitely some I liked more than others. To see all the story options in the game, you have to play through it multiple times. I enjoyed playing through all the routes and making different choices each time. It never felt too repetitive, as you can skip through all the dialogue you've seen before, and there were new things to discover even after multiple playthroughs. For example, you can get special conversations by taking particular classes on certain days. Going for all of the achievements is a pretty good way to get most of the major endings, and it was fun trying to figure out how to get some of the more difficult ones. The characters and the world they lived in were very interesting to get to know. Certain aspects of the school and a couple of the characters seemed to be taking a bit of inspiration from Harry Potter, but the world and the story were pretty different and unique. The main characters were multifaceted and it was fun getting to know the different sides of their personalities. I did feel like there were a few story threads related to some of the side characters that were introduced but not fully developed or that didn't end in a satisfying way. Overall, Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a cute visual novel/RPG. I enjoyed the story and characters, and it was fun playing through it to get all the details. I wish some of the side characters had been more fleshed out here, but some of them did end up getting more details in the sequel. 9/10
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Dec. 2024
i honestly grabbed this on a whim because steam made me laugh so hard i almost cried - it suggested that this game is somehow similar to skyrim. thanks for the giggles steam, you'll always be the best to me. Tl;Dr: local degenerate plays a magical high school game because reminiscing on previous high school experiences just wasn't enough pain stress to wake me up in the morning.
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Magical Diary: Horse Hall is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall received 916 positive votes out of a total of 1,014 achieving a rating of 8.53.
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Magical Diary: Horse Hall was developed and published by Hanako Games.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a single-player game.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall does not currently offer any DLC.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall does not support Steam Remote Play.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Magical Diary: Horse Hall
14.79€ -63% 14.79€ 5.60€
8.5
916
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Hanako Games
Release 31 May 2012
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