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Games like Academagia: The Making of Mages

If Academagia: The Making of Mages is your kind of game, the closest matches are InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante and Floating life in Other-world — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Academagia: 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!

2017StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationRPG15.99 USDWindowsby Black Chicken Studios, inc.
Academagia: The Making of Mages — Steam game cover
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Deep magic system with unique subjects to studyOpen ended gameplay with no forced narrativeText based worldbuilding is exceptionally richAtmosphericContemplativeImmersive

Players who liked Academagia: The Making of Mages also play

Steam players who put hours into Academagia: The Making of Mages 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. InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    The 2190 year. You are an employee of a corporation dealing in goods distribution and logistics in the “megatower” – the place where all local citizens live. Find yourself in the cyberpunk reality by playing InfiniteCorp, a decision-based strategy card game!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Second-strongest match for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Floating life in Other-world

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Floating life in Other-world is a life simulation independent game based on magic . In the overhead world with the magic world as the background, experience how people from different backgrounds struggle to create their own stories in the turbulent world situation.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Reigns

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Ranked #4 for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Ranked #5 for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Long Live The Queen

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 場外人生

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Ranked #7 for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    一個孤單的人,培養自我,增進事業,買房築巢,尋找伴侶,結婚生子,擴張勢力,建立國家,最終橫跨星海,啟動時光機器......,所謂幽默而真實的沙盒人生模擬器(つд⊂)。

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. King of Dragon Pass

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Ranked #8 for Academagia: The Making of Mages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

    2015StrategyAdventureRPG11.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Academagia: The Making of Mages

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. Magical Diary: Horse Hall

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Reviewers of Academagia: The Making of Mages cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

    2012IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Volcano Princess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Reviewers of Academagia: The Making of Mages cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Long Live The Queen

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Academagia: The Making of Mages cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Reviewers of Academagia: The Making of Mages cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum is the latest story-driven RPG from Black Chicken Studios, inc., spinning tales of pulp adventure, exotic locations, occult horror, and romance that'll require well-honed skills.

    2015IndieSimulationRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Princess Maker 5

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Reviewers of Academagia: The Making of Mages cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.

    2018Simulation29.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Academagia: The Making of Mages at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Academagia: The Making of Mages on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck 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 Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    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. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Academagia: The Making of Mages

How much does Academagia: The Making of Mages cost?
Academagia: The Making of Mages is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Academagia: The Making of Mages?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Academagia: The Making of Mages are InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, Floating life in Other-world.
Who developed Academagia: The Making of Mages?
Academagia: The Making of Mages was developed by Black Chicken Studios, inc..

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 Academagia: The Making of Mages.

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