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Near-Mage

Stuck In Attic · 2025-05-27

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

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.

Near-Mage is an Adventure and Indie game priced at $19.99, released in 2025, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 240 reviews).

91%
positive of 245 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$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 27% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.9k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 245 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

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 65 of 96 observed days · $8.00 above the 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$11.992025-05-272026-10-142025-05-27 — best price $17.992025-06-27 — best price $16.992025-08-04 — best price $15.992025-08-15 — best price $16.992025-09-18 — best price $15.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-10-09 — best price $16.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992025-11-14 — best price $19.992025-12-15 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-23 — best price $15.992026-02-12 — best price $15.992026-03-05 — best price $13.992026-03-18 — best price $19.992026-04-14 — best price $19.992026-04-23 — best price $13.992026-05-06 — best price $13.992026-05-31 — best price $19.992026-06-09 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $11.992026-08-27 — best price $11.992026-08-30 — best price $11.992026-09-02 — best price $11.992026-09-05 — best price $11.992026-09-08 — best price $11.992026-09-11 — best price $11.992026-09-14 — best price $11.992026-09-17 — best price $11.992026-09-20 — best price $11.992026-09-23 — best price $19.992026-09-26 — best price $11.992026-09-29 — best price $11.992026-10-02 — best price $11.992026-10-05 — best price $11.992026-10-08 — best price $19.992026-10-11 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2002026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-05 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-23 — 10 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-09-01 — 6 pageviews2026-09-05 — 5 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-13 — 3 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-21 — 6 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1 pageviews2026-09-29 — 3 pageviews2026-10-03 — 3 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 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

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2025-05-27 (Steam store data)

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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