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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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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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Sept. 2025
I'd recommend a bunch of games over this, but it says a lot about the genre that I'd still ultimately recommend this game regardless. This is a colony sim with an interesting gimmick where you have to teach students, graduate them, and occasionally hire promising ones as staff. There's a neat and admittedly complicated "room keyword" system where you can make specialized rooms for different crafting, teaching, and other important functions. The rooms have to meet certain keyword criteria such as being elevated or being silent. The gameplay loop consists of slowly getting the materials to make these specialized rooms, graduating students, and battling in the underschool. There's plenty to keep you going, such as trying to get the perfect initiate to promote to apprentice, or rearranging your school to your liking. However, there's an issue with the setting in terms of it making things unintuitive. In other colony sims, stuff like "I've got steel, therefore I can use it to make a sword" are intuitive. Because of the magical setting, that's not going to be the case here. There's weird things like feeding wood to a pig to make stone. The devs apparently realized this and added sort of a tutorial, as well as ingame encylopedia, but it's still going to be a thing you have to overcome. Overall I'd probably recommend Rimworld, Ratopia, Stranded: Alien Dawn, and a few other colony sims over this. However this is still a nice game to compete with the aforementioned games, and one I'd like to see get one more big update or DLC.
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July 2025
I love a colony sim -- until I inevitably get bored halfway through, hard quit, and never look at it again. This was NOT the case with Mind Over Magic. I hit some low points in the game where I considered quitting, mostly because the game doesn't hold your hand, and you spend a lot of time figuring things out through trial and error. Ex. You'll realize a lot of rooms need to be rebuilt later to meet certain criteria for bonuses, or you need to train a new batch of characters to unlock/utilize new mechanics, stuff like that. I also got a bit of end-game exhaustion, grinding for all 12 seal keys... only to realize I only needed 4 to finish the game, but already had 10 by the time I realized. Jesus. What drew me to this game was the art style. I loved the look of everything: the characters, the monsters, the plants, the aesthetics of the architecture and room decor, the magic animations, everything. I also really liked how the elemental system ties into both combat and daily tasks (ex. fire = cooking & hunting, water = alchemy & healing). The building mechanics became really satisfying once I got past the frustration of having to constantly redesign rooms. Exploring the underschool and the grounds outside was really fun, too, despite the simplicity. There's a lot to do in the game and a lot to work towards and that really kept me going. Of course, once you finally expel the curse, you get a tiny bit of text that's just like "cool you did it, bye b*tch" and that's that, Fin, Das Ende. After I just grinded for a bunch of keys I didn't even need. Otherwise, loved it.
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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
An excellent colony sim game. Very similar to Oxygen Not Included, but much easier to learn. Less pipe management, less learning about thermal properties of various materials, and more combat and magic. If you have experience with ONI, this game will be very intuitive and relaxed in comparison. If you've never played games like this, learning curve in the beginning will still be quite steep, but they tried their best to include useful tooltips and hints. Early game and mid-game are excellent. Really, really satisfying to play. Late game can be a bit of a drag though if you're trying to min-max your mages and hunt for the achievements. Dragon quests are especially a chore, and there will be many days that you just fast forward, spending sometimes hours or IRL time just waiting for things to be done. Still, I enjoy game quite a lot and hopefully it will be improved further in the future. Many QoL updates are announced. A wholehearted recommendation from me.
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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.

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Mind Over Magic is a single-player game.

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Mind Over Magic
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Release 12 Feb 2025
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