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Choice of Magics

Choice of Games · 2018-08-10

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Aug 10, 2018 (Mac), Aug 10, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2018 (Linux)

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!

93%
positive of 168 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

Thousands of years ago, the ancients destroyed civilization with five schools of magic. Each spell comes at a terrible price. Glamor charms your adversaries, rotting your body from the inside. Divination reveals faraway secrets, exposing your own secrets to others. Automation gives objects the spark of life, destabilizing the climate. Vivomancy can heal or change living things, with bizarre side effects. Blast your enemies with Negation energy, forming permanent clouds of deadly fallout. As a young scrounger of antiquities, you hope to build your ruined world anew with these rediscovered spel(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (44 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 27,987 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 168 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
424220182026Week of 2018-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$4.792018-08-102026-10-082018-08-10 — best price $4.892018-10-29 — best price $4.892018-11-22 — best price $4.892018-12-20 — best price $4.892019-02-05 — best price $4.892019-06-25 — best price $4.892019-10-11 — best price $4.892019-11-26 — best price $4.892019-12-19 — best price $4.892020-01-23 — best price $4.892020-06-25 — best price $4.892020-12-22 — best price $4.892021-02-11 — best price $4.892021-06-24 — best price $4.892021-11-25 — best price $4.892021-12-22 — best price $4.892022-06-23 — best price $4.892022-11-22 — best price $4.892022-12-22 — best price $4.892023-03-16 — best price $4.792023-06-29 — best price $4.792023-11-21 — best price $4.792023-12-22 — best price $4.792024-03-14 — best price $4.792024-04-18 — best price $4.792024-06-28 — best price $4.792024-11-27 — best price $4.792024-12-20 — best price $4.792025-03-13 — best price $4.792025-06-26 — best price $4.792025-09-29 — best price $4.792025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-10-01 — best price $4.792026-10-08 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
71.2%
earned "It's Homage, Not Infringement"
28.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieMagicFantasyAdventureText-BasedChoices MatterChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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