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Games like Magisterium: Fantasy Craft

If Magisterium: Fantasy Craft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts, Stone Rage and Grounded 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Magisterium: Fantasy Craft: A grinding medieval fantasy life sim with a detailed complex crafting system complemented by survival and RPG elements. Grind resources, craft items, trade with locals, master professions, fulfill quests and explore the world to uncover its long-lost secrets.

2023ActionIndieAdventureSimulationMassively MultiplayerRPG8.24 USDWindowsby The Spiteful Games
Magisterium: Fantasy Craft — Steam game cover
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Build and customize your own base and farmCooperative multiplayer with friends or spouseCrafting systems require real masteryAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Magisterium: Fantasy Craft 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. Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Top pick for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Stone Rage

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Second-strongest match for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Grounded 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, resource gathering, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Third-strongest match for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

    2025ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tinkerlands

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, resource gathering, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Ranked #4 for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Crestfallen: Medieval Survival

    WHY THIS

    Shares permadeath, survival management, survival and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Ranked #5 for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Force of Nature

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a contemplative mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Ranked #6 for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

    2016ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Plains of Pain

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Ranked #7 for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer, base building and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Ranked #8 for Magisterium: Fantasy Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Magisterium: Fantasy Craft

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.

  1. My First Craft Survival

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Magisterium: Fantasy Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    When I woke up, I found myself on an uninhabited island. And I had nothing with me! Anyway, the first priority is to find food to avoid starvation. At night, mysterious creatures attack, so I need to craft equipment and build a base to defend myself! In the end, there's a boss waiting for me!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure5.20 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Reviewers of Magisterium: Fantasy Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Reviewers of Magisterium: Fantasy Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

    2016RPG39.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Magisterium: Fantasy Craft at current Steam store prices.

  1. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Action with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~76% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~82% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Magisterium: Fantasy Craft on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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 ↗

Frequently asked about Magisterium: Fantasy Craft

Does Magisterium: Fantasy Craft work on Steam Deck?
Magisterium: Fantasy Craft is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Magisterium: Fantasy Craft cost?
Magisterium: Fantasy Craft is listed on Steam at 8.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Magisterium: Fantasy Craft have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Magisterium: Fantasy Craft supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Magisterium: Fantasy Craft?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Magisterium: Fantasy Craft are Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts, Stone Rage, Grounded 2.
Who developed Magisterium: Fantasy Craft?
Magisterium: Fantasy Craft was developed by The Spiteful Games and published by The Spiteful Games.

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 Magisterium: Fantasy Craft.

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