Magicmaker

Magicmaker

Worth it · RPG · 2014

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
20h
Value
$0.50/hr
Reviews
91% of 608 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 123 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Dedicated Graphics Card (Does not support integrated graphics), 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

62 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Chronicon ($13.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Realms of Magic ($19.99, scores 38).

The drop-off

94% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 19:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Forgot to review this game years ago, but this is amazing, simple, fun, and TONS of player expression, no need for anything else in a game like this.
JossRecommendedafter 43hAug 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Magicmaker scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319250/magicmaker
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTasty Stewdios LLC
PublisherTasty Stewdios LLC
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements82