Mind Over Magic
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 82h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.49, set in December 2025. 19 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dwarf Fortress ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Oxygen: First Breath (free, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 82-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 323 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
61% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
125 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 10:59 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I loved my time playing this game, but the middle towards the end just doesn't make much sense. You give someone a nice meal, nice bed, all of these things but they are STILL unhappy most of the time. It's like the more you give your people the less happy they are. It became a slog trying to keep people from being upset. I still loved the game overall so I am giving it a thumbs up.
I like it even more than Oxygen Not Included. Even if the game feels unfinished like it is early access. Unfortunately there are no update anymore.
I really wanted to like this game. Huge fan of Klei and the games that they put out, but this seems like a flop to me. Played the game throughout Early Access and it has had a few different shapes and forms, but it still feels quite a bit unfinished to me, especially for the price point.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mind Over Magic scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1270580/mind-over-magicReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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