Academagia: The Making of Mages
Skip · RPG · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 290 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
About the game
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, DirectX 9 or later with 1 GB RAM, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 91 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. On the same math Reigns ($2.99, scores 76) and Quadrober Simulator ($2.99, scores 38) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The drop-off
92% start to 2% rarestNo 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
What players say
The ultimate harry potter/wizard school simulator. I got this game years ago on..what was it called back then..Impulse? Back in those days this game was the ultimate hidden gem, heck even updating and getting the free dlcs required you to go hunt them on the dev's forums, and those files would end up missing after a few months, it was all quite ghetto compared to what we expect today with automatic updates. Anyways...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
At the time of this review, Academagia continues to be a unique game. For that alone (to experience history), I recommend it buying and playing it. Nonetheless, Academagia is also a *good* game. The world of the Elumia is exquisitely fleshed out within many pieces of lore throughout the game as well as the many adventures one can undertake. The character creation process is what drew me in initially circa 2010; I...
Short answer: It's a pity. The presentation is very nice (albeit the text is tiny and so are some buttons) and the writing is fine, and it seems very alluring to magical academy fans (Potterheads and otherwise), but it has one critical flaw. NOTHING is explained. You have no idea what you are doing. There is somewhat of a short manual in the form of a letter right at the beginning that gives you a brief rundown of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Academagia: The Making of Mages scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/533480/academagia-the-making-of-magesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.