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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.

Mind Over Magic is a survival, colony sim and building game developed by Sparkypants and published by Klei Publishing.
Released on February 12th 2025 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 3,477 reviews of which 3,068 were positive and 409 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Mind Over Magic into these genres:

Survival Colony Sim Building Management Nonlinear Simulation Crafting Base-Building Dragons Tactical RPG Stylized Economy Singleplayer Fantasy Strategy RPG Procedural Generation Choices Matter Resource Management Logic Indie

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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
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 2 GB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 6 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Thanks to all the computers out there for making magic happen!

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Nov. 2025
im bad at oxygen not included, tried this game because i think its more forgiving, and im wrong :)
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May 2025
It’s a good game, but, intended or not, the main reason I love this game is for my cat. He now "requests" that I bring up the game by tapping my monitor and looking at me. He is fascinated by the tentacle monster on the title page and will spend a good 20 min or so tapping at it.
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March 2025
On a binary Recommend - Don't Recommend scale, it is difficult to give mind over magic a negative review, even though there is ultimate a promise not being fulfilled here. the game as it is is perfctly functional and acceptable, but especially once you get past the early game hurdles a stunning lack of content starts to rear its ugly head. tasks, crises and the core gameplay seriously lack enough variety to keep the experience fun and fresh. Unless you are a completionist like me who will actively force himself to keep playing games you no longer actively enjoy, just for the sake of beating it, **I can almost guarantee you will not finish a game of Mind Over Magic.**
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Feb. 2025
Oxygen Not Included (ONI) proved to me that I am not a very smart person. I enjoyed ONI, wanted to play it, wanted to be good at it - but I just couldn't really pull the complexity together to understand all the systems and advance very far in it. This game gives a form of that gameplay loop (though very different) that is a lot more accessible for me and very enjoyable. I am glad that I've played ONI and Rimworld, because without those experiences the learning curve for this game is going to be tough (specifically the systems around schedules and meetings needs). The tutorial for the game is bare bones and isn't doing much for you. However, the nested tool tips are well done and the descriptions are pretty clear. With all that being said, I am loving this game and enjoying the process of playing it. Clear objectives, lots of flexibility, great community management, good visuals, and consequently a great game. If you like games like ONI, definitely recommend it. If you are a player who finds ONI comprehensible and "simple" than this game is going to probably be boring for you. It doesn't have that same kind of complexity that ONI offers and this is definitely more accessible to a wider audience as a result.
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Feb. 2025
This is a really solid game and it really fills the light management niche quite nicely. It's fun to play around in if you like designing and the requirements for all the different types of rooms and spaces in the school vary enough to keep things interesting. It manages to offer a little challenge for those who like adapting on the fly while still being engaging enough for those that like to tear everything down and rebuild in a more organized, modular fashion. As opposed to Oxygen Not Included, the game doesn't require you to delve into the management of pipes and material transport systems (which was my least favorite part of ONI). There's basic farming and production limits and storage but that's about the extent of it. You can quickly craft little zombie bots to do a lot of your hauling for you which frees up your teachers and students to teach and learn and dance in a circle around an enchantophone. Staff and student scheduling is simple, though the grouping system is still a bit wonky. I also get the feeling that the devs intend that the 'best' way to play is to churn through your students and staff. Graduating and Retiring your staff is incentivised through the reward of relics which are used to upgrade subsequent students/staff, so if you are one of those players that gets attached to your characters you're going to be making the game more difficult for yourself. Overall I think this is an easy recommend. The developers have done a great job on the skeleton of the game, so depending on your options chosen it can play as a challenging, resource-scarce, base survival game, a light magic-themed school/base designer game, or anywhere in between.
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Mind Over Magic is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.

Mind Over Magic is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ on Steam.

Mind Over Magic received 3,068 positive votes out of a total of 3,477 achieving a rating of 8.50.
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Mind Over Magic was developed by Sparkypants and published by Klei Publishing.

Mind Over Magic is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Mind Over Magic is not playable on MacOS.

Mind Over Magic is not playable on Linux.

Mind Over Magic is a single-player game.

Mind Over Magic does not currently offer any DLC.

Mind Over Magic does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Mind Over Magic does not support Steam Remote Play.

Mind Over Magic 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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Mind Over Magic
22.99€ Buy Now
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8.5
3,068
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Developer
Sparkypants
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Klei Publishing
Release 12 Feb 2025
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