Spellcaster University
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 630 / Radeon HD 6570, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
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 $7.49, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 43 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Settlement Survival ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats MEMORIAPOLIS ($32.00, scores 27).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.1 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 3.1 times as long.
The drop-off
77% start to <1% 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
Players
395 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cute game, for a few hours, but feels very shallow very quickly. I really expected at least some basic management possibilities, such as planning and classes management. Hope they add more to the game. Oh, and also: not everything needs to be a deckbuilder. Really.
Bought it a second time. This is still the most enjoyable Wizard School simulator, I've played (maybe even just best School Simulator). I haven't played many, but hey, it still counts for something, right?
⭐ Steam Review - *Spellcaster University* **The Good** * Most of the game is fairly intuitive and easy to pick up. * The magic system is straightforward while still being creative and interesting. * The pacing is brisk without feeling overly rushed. * The card system is genuinely interesting and enjoyable to interact with. * The core gameplay mechanics aren't particularly difficult to understand. **The Bad** The...
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Cite this score
Spellcaster University scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/895620/spellcaster-universityReviews 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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