A Magical High School Girl / 魔法の女子高生

A Magical High School Girl / 魔法の女子高生

Skip · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 34, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
12h
Value
$0.83/hr
Reviews
75% of 205 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Holding it back
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 74% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.83/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 46 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

"The magic beckons you." A Magical High School Girl is a magic crafting rogue-like RPG! The only weapon you possess is the magic you conjure from within. You can freely name your magic. The elemental properties and effects are generated automatically with what you typed in.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any DirectX 9.0 supported card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 66 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dark Devotion ($19.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse ($2.99, scores 12).

What players say

A Magical High School Girl is a dungeon-crawling roguelike developed by illuCalab and published by Sekai Project that takes familiar genre ideas and reshapes them through a highly creative magic system. At first glance, it may resemble many traditional roguelikes built around dungeon exploration, randomized progression, and strategic survival, but beneath its charming presentation lies a surprisingly inventive...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
I would have liked to give this a positive review, as this has the makings of a good game, but it has too many issues. I personally ended up dropping it due to frustration after spending a while trying to get through the second dungeon. I might come back to it at some future date. At first, I did enjoy things, at least until I reached the first boss. The game is a turn-based tile-based dungeon crawler vaguely in the...
CanuckistanianNot recommendedafter 3.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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A Magical High School Girl / 魔法の女子高生 scores 34/100 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/555630/a-magical-high-school-girl
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperilluCalab
PublisherSekai Project
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate