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Near-Mage cover art

Near-Mage

Stuck In Attic · 2025-05-27

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 27, 2025 (Mac), May 27, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 27, 2025 (Linux)

Attend a magic school, learn spells, and explore a folklore-rich Transylvania in this hand-crafted narrative adventure.

91%
positive of 240 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Near-Mage is a point-and-click adventure game that also includes RPG elements developed and published by Romanian developer Stuck In Attic for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It was released on May 27, 2025.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (46 reviews).
  • · Top 52% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 240 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$11.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.99 at GOG (2026-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 36 of 60 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
414120252026Week of 2025-05-27: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$11.992025-05-272026-08-302025-05-27 — best price $17.992025-06-18 — best price $16.992025-07-10 — best price $16.992025-08-04 — best price $15.992025-08-11 — best price $19.992025-09-11 — best price $19.992025-09-18 — best price $15.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-10-07 — best price $16.992025-10-09 — best price $16.992025-10-27 — best price $14.992025-11-05 — best price $19.992025-11-14 — best price $19.992025-12-08 — best price $13.992025-12-18 — best price $13.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-19 — best price $13.992026-01-26 — best price $19.992026-02-12 — best price $15.992026-02-28 — best price $19.992026-03-11 — best price $13.992026-03-18 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-15 — best price $13.992026-04-23 — best price $13.992026-05-01 — best price $19.992026-05-14 — best price $19.992026-05-31 — best price $19.992026-06-08 — best price $19.992026-06-17 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-24 — best price $11.992026-08-10 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — best price $11.992026-08-29 — best price $11.992026-08-30 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 6 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 5 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-19 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-04 — 10 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-10 — 6 pageviews2026-07-13 — 3 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 1 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-15 — 6 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
95%
earned "So fresh, so clean"
33.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10311%54

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

Player tags

CatsCozyMagicVampireAdventureNarrativeStory RichAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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