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Mind Over Magic

Sparkypants · Klei Publishing · 2025-02-12

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

124
playing now
87%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

124 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 124 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 371 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~46/week).
  • · Review velocity down 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 89k–201k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,468 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $17.49 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
60560520232026Week of 2023-12-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 444 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

204672026-08-07 00:00 — 96 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 104 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 144 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 103 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 144 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 204 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 139 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 154 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 199 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 128 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 115 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 148 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 104 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 105 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 159 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 109 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 102 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 164 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 120 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 104 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 131 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 99 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 112 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 161 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 110 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 92 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 131 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 127 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 124 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$17.492023-12-142026-07-092023-12-14 — best price $22.492024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-03-14 — best price $22.492024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-05-13 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $24.992024-06-20 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-10-28 — best price $19.992024-11-04 — best price $24.992024-11-27 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $24.992024-12-19 — best price $18.742025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-02-12 — best price $18.742025-02-19 — best price $24.992025-03-13 — best price $18.742025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-04-10 — best price $18.742025-04-24 — best price $24.992025-06-12 — best price $18.742025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-09-18 — best price $18.742025-09-25 — best price $24.992025-09-29 — best price $18.742025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-10-27 — best price $18.742025-11-03 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $17.492026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-02-12 — best price $17.492026-02-19 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $17.492026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-04-09 — best price $17.492026-04-23 — best price $24.992026-06-11 — best price $17.492026-07-09 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
60.5%
earned "To the Surface"
8.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7981%82

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DragonsEconomyFantasyBuildingCraftingStylizedSurvivalNonlinearColony SimManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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