Arcana Academy
Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool?
72% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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Spellcaster University
Run a magic university where the buildings come from a deck of cards. Train necromancers or druids, keep students fed and sane, negotiate with kings and orcs, and flee the armies of darkness before they arrive. Then rebuild somewhere else, with everything your graduates left behind.
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83% of 3,501 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$24.99Arcana Academy
Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.
Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
72% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Wizdom Academy
Run your own wizarding school in this 3D management sim. Stack floors, design every room, recruit students from around the world and guide them from first lesson to final exam, all while mana droughts, staff drama and the tax-collecting Directorium test your nerve. Your school, your rules.
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67% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99Mind Over Magic
Build a magic school on a cursed site, train mages with your own curriculum, and send them into the Underschool to break the curse. A colony sim with room-design puzzles, dragons, undead helpers and a deadly fog at the door. Charming, colorful and demanding in the best way.
Replayable, Funny, Colorful
86% of 4,388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$24.99Academagia: The Making of Mages
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
Replayable, Funny, Colorful
69% of 277 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Magic Research
Run a brand-new school of magic as its headmaster: cast over a hundred spells, research strange new schools, build the campus, and grow famous enough to win the Tournament of Magic. Along the way, dozens of secret storylines hide permanent, game-changing rewards. One more run is always tempting.
Replayable, Funny, Colorful
90% of 414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99Arcane Arts Academy
Join Erika during her first year at the Arcane Arts Academy!
Funny, Colorful, Relaxing
93% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Whimel Academy
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
Replayable, Colorful, Relaxing
86% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99Artificer's Tower
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Replayable, Colorful
76% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Alchemist Simulator
Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.
Colorful, Relaxing
76% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
Colorful, Story-driven
59% of 247 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Songs of Glimmerwick
A witch academy where spells are songs. Play your flute to summon rain, enchant tools to work on their own, and chat with trees. Attend classes, tend the university garden, befriend classmates and townsfolk, and poke at the island's oddities across a full year of seasons and festivals. A gentle, story-driven RPG with hand-drawn art and full voice acting.
Funny, Colorful, Relaxing
92% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 91$24.99
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Academagia: The Making of Mages
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards.
69% of 277 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Magic Research
Grow a magic academy from scratch, automate its spells and studies, and uncover the storylines that quietly reshape each new run.
90% of 414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
Whimel Academy
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game.
86% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Artificer's Tower
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game.
76% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Alchemist Simulator
Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes…
76% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Unferat
Unferat is a warlock simulator, giving the player the opportunity to go from a village boy to a powerful dark sorcerer.
89% of 155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure.
59% of 247 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Secret Agent Wizard Boy
You’re a wizard! And a secret agent. The evil S.P.I.D.E.R crime syndicate has taken over your school, creating chaos.
96% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab
Hire students, chase papers and fill your desk with odd equipment as your little pixel lab climbs the academic ladder beside you.
86% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$7.99
Magic Research 2
Grow from rookie wizard to a full team of casters, chasing the Philosopher's Stone through spells, crafting and boss fights.
92% of 615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball.
89% of 178 Steam reviews are positive$6.24
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Songs of Glimmerwick
A witch academy where spells are songs. Play your flute to summon rain, enchant tools to work on their own, and chat with trees.
92% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 91$24.99
Secret Agent Wizard Boy
You’re a wizard! And a secret agent. The evil S.P.I.D.E.R crime syndicate has taken over your school, creating chaos.
96% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Gargadusa's Tower
Recruit heroes, keep them alive and paid, and watch each run up the tower unfold differently.
90% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$8.99
Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab
Hire students, chase papers and fill your desk with odd equipment as your little pixel lab climbs the academic ladder beside you.
86% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$7.99
Arcane Merchant
Run a first-person fantasy shop at your own pace, from stocking potions to sending heroes out for rare goods.
84% of 303 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$14.99
Witchy Business
A cozy hand-drawn shop sim where you serve customers, craft magical goods and run the business your way.
86% of 918 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
Tavern Keeper 🍻
Serve a colorful fantasy crowd, hire your staff and shape a funny storybook tale one guest at a time.
94% of 4,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$29.99
Ritual of Raven
A cozy farming sim where you never touch a trowel. Instead, you enchant Arcana Constructs with a deck of cards, telling them exactly how to plow…
88% of 333 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Whimel Academy
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game.
86% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
ENSCROLL
Run a magic scroll shop, combine elemental runes into new spells, and work off your Magic Academy debt one customer at a time.
88% of 1,150 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Magic Research 2
Grow from rookie wizard to a full team of casters, chasing the Philosopher's Stone through spells, crafting and boss fights.
92% of 615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
Tower Wizard
An incremental game about a wizard and one very ambitious tower.
96% of 9,017 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 112$2.99
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Whimel Academy
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Arcana Academy
Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool?
72% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Idle Awakening: Mages Path
Plan your days, automate the tedious parts and let steady magical progress carry on even while you are away.
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