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Games like Magicademia

If Magicademia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Medville, StarScraper and Super Movie Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Magicademia: Magicademia is a tycoon game in which you can design and manage the magic school of your dreams the way you want. Hire some experienced wizards to teach spell casting to the new, brim-hatted generation. Expand your knowledge and school in order to become world's best magical academy!

StrategyIndieSimulationWindowsby STEREO GAMES S.A.
Magicademia — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Magicademia 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.

  1. Medville

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    Grow your colony to a full fledged trading empire, where individually simulated citizens participate in a complex economic system. They can produce 40 different artifacts, transport them over water or land, buy and sell according to their own budget and needs. Shape your city with custom buildings.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. StarScraper

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Super Movie Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Magicademia.

    Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!

    2025StrategySimulation16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Entertainment Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    "Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation15.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Rail Route

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Flooded

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Magicademia.

    Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

    2023StrategySimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. COPA CITY

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Magicademia.

    An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.

    2026SportsStrategySimulation31.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Ascent of Ashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Magicademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicademia.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Magicademia.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Magicademia.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Magicademia.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Magicademia.

    When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

    2024ActionSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magicademia.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from STEREO GAMES S.A.

Other recommendable Steam games by STEREO GAMES S.A., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Car Manufacture

    WHY THIS

    Another title from STEREO GAMES S.A., the studio behind Magicademia. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Car Mechanic Flipper

    WHY THIS

    Another title from STEREO GAMES S.A., the studio behind Magicademia. Shares Indie and Simulation with Magicademia.

    Car Mechanic Flipper is an arcade pinball game where you bounce cars instead of balls

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  3. Car Manufacture: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Another title from STEREO GAMES S.A., the studio behind Magicademia. Shares Strategy and Indie with Magicademia.

    Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Magicademia

What games are most similar to Magicademia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Magicademia are Medville, StarScraper, Super Movie Tycoon.
Who developed Magicademia?
Magicademia was developed by STEREO GAMES S.A..

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