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Mind Over Magic

Sparkypants · Klei Publishing · 2025-02-12

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Mind Over Magic is a 2025 Simulation game priced at $24.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 4478 reviews).

153
playing now
87%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
5
Nexus mods (411 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

153 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Mind Over Magic trailer thumbnail

10 TIPS FOR BEGINNERS - Guide MIND OVER MAGIC 1.0 Tutorial

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 153 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 6% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 90k–202k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,478 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 6 of 12 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

203722026-09-14 22:00 — 72 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 86 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 106 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 89 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 97 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 103 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 91 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 74 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 91 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 139 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 93 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 90 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 135 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 92 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 146 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 201 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 102 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 131 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 164 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 137 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 132 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 177 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 115 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 153 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.4k125Dec 2023Aug 2026Dec 2023 — avg 1,291 · peak 2,210Jan 2024 — avg 762 · peak 1,792Feb 2024 — avg 320 · peak 590Mar 2024 — avg 255 · peak 519Apr 2024 — avg 218 · peak 496May 2024 — avg 218 · peak 561Jun 2024 — avg 387 · peak 1,581Jul 2024 — avg 395 · peak 863Aug 2024 — avg 261 · peak 538Sep 2024 — avg 216 · peak 504Oct 2024 — avg 247 · peak 518Nov 2024 — avg 306 · peak 724Dec 2024 — avg 308 · peak 572Jan 2025 — avg 255 · peak 535Feb 2025 — avg 1,366 · peak 4,096Mar 2025 — avg 1,041 · peak 2,149Apr 2025 — avg 518 · peak 1,006May 2025 — avg 308 · peak 560Jun 2025 — avg 425 · peak 1,100Jul 2025 — avg 307 · peak 604Aug 2025 — avg 240 · peak 480Sep 2025 — avg 254 · peak 508Oct 2025 — avg 254 · peak 472Nov 2025 — avg 248 · peak 493Dec 2025 — avg 239 · peak 460Jan 2026 — avg 280 · peak 570Feb 2026 — avg 215 · peak 395Mar 2026 — avg 150 · peak 287Apr 2026 — avg 186 · peak 364May 2026 — avg 152 · peak 270Jun 2026 — avg 184 · peak 382Jul 2026 — avg 176 · peak 358Aug 2026 — avg 125 · peak 219
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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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