Games like Mind Over Magic
If Mind Over Magic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jurassic Clans, TFM: The First Men and Spellcaster University — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cozy and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Mind Over Magic: 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.
Players who liked Mind Over Magic also play
Steam players who put hours into Mind Over Magic also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Jurassic Clans
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Top pick for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
TFM: The First Men
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Second-strongest match for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Spellcaster University
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mind Over Magic.
Third-strongest match for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Outland Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mind Over Magic.
Ranked #4 for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Sheltered 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mind Over Magic.
Ranked #5 for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Ranked #6 for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Common'hood
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Ranked #7 for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Beneath the Mountain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Ranked #8 for Mind Over Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mind Over Magic
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Majesty 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mind Over Magic.
Reviewers of Mind Over Magic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Reviewers of Mind Over Magic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mind Over Magic.
Reviewers of Mind Over Magic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Spellcaster University
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mind Over Magic.
Reviewers of Mind Over Magic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
ONI : Road to be the Mightiest Oni
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Mind Over Magic.
Reviewers of Mind Over Magic cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Break your enemies' souls to reclaim your pride. On Kisejima, demon warrior Kuuta and his partner Kazemaru challenge these souls to a trial. All in order to defeat Momotaro, who is both human and evil monster… A tale of sky and wind as they embark upon an island quest.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mind Over Magic at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
PowerWash Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Mind Over Magic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Mind Over Magic
- Does Mind Over Magic run on Steam Deck?
- Mind Over Magic is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mind Over Magic cost?
- Mind Over Magic is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mind Over Magic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mind Over Magic are Jurassic Clans, TFM: The First Men, Spellcaster University.
- Who developed Mind Over Magic?
- Mind Over Magic was developed by Sparkypants and published by Klei Publishing.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Mind Over Magic.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.