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Master of Magic

IndieRPGStrategy

Developer MuHa Games, Eerie Forest Studio

Master of Magic is a single-player fantasy turn-based 4X strategy game developed by MuHa Games and published by Slitherine Software, in which the player plays as a wizard attempting to dominate two linked worlds. From a small settlement, the player manages resources, builds cities and armies, and researches spells, growing an empire and fighting the other wizards. The gameplay of the game, both the original and the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Audience score

66
Fresh

130 positive · 66 negative
95% range 59–73%

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Steam reviews130660
Bluesky *48052
Mastodon *102
Lemmy *001

* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).

Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
667 of 931 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

67% recommend · 130 yes, 65 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 195 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (879 of 1,239 positive).

Many players praise the remake for faithfully recreating the original's mechanics and adding quality-of-life improvements. [1][2][3][4] Some reviewers criticize the AI as broken or atrocious, with poor diplomacy and spellcasting. [5][6][7][8] A few posters note the game was abandoned by developers with bugs left unfixed. [9][8]

Liked
  • Faithful remake of the classic 1994 game. [2][3][4][10]
  • Adds quality-of-life improvements and new content. [1][3][4][11]
  • Supports mods and workshop content. [4][12]
  • Great value and addictive gameplay. [13][14]
Disliked
  • AI is broken or atrocious. [5][6][7][8]
  • Game was abandoned with bugs unfixed. [9][8]
  • UI is unfriendly or unintuitive. [7][15]
  • Graphics are childish or not up to modern standards. [16][17]
Representative posts
  • [5]Steam user Steam user …1683Steam review · Jul 20, 2024 · Not recommended

    This is a single player game and the AI is atrocious. The only thing it can do effectively is send out settlers. It's worse than the AI in the original. A 30 year old game. Spellcasting is broken. The AI only actually uses a few spells. The rest are not even implemented. Diplomacy is broken. If one AI cancels a treaty, all of the other AI's act as if the player broke it. Once you have an army of 5 or 6 units, you …

  • [8]Steam user Steam user …2254Steam review · Feb 6, 2026 · Not recommended

    Game is not finished. AI is very bad typical Slitherine published product. Forum is full of information from players that checked game files and se why AI is braindead, Slitherine fired the developers before game is finished so they never released real full game with working systems. I did not buy this product it was gifted to me from a fanatical charity bundle for about 0.5euros called *safe in our world* Would not …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …0292Steam review · Oct 10, 2025 · Recommended

    Review: Master of Magic (2022) - Updated April 2024 This review is written shortly after all the features from the original and extended roadmaps were completed (see Slitherine forum and news links). Essentially, almost all reviews focused on bugs or lack of Quality-of-Life (QoL) features written prior to December 2023 can be discarded. By December 2023, nearly all the most common complaints found in early …

  • [3]Steam user Steam user …3876Steam review · Jan 26, 2025 · Recommended

    One of the greatest turn-based strategy games of all time, remastered. A few new heroes added, a few UI tweaks, graphics upgraded, hex-based terrain instead of grid-based. All in all a complete win of an upgrade. I bought the original for $50 in 1994 and played it for almost 30 years - now I have a replacement that's worth the name.

  • [11]Steam user Steam user …0982Steam review · Mar 18, 2025 · Recommended

    The bottom line: I've been playing the OG MoM for 30 years. For many of them I had hoped for a remake and in 2022 that became a reality. This game does what I wanted the developer to do, add some quality of life and balance improvements to the game and slap a new coat of paint on it. Just do to Master of Magic what has been done for decades to Madden, FIFA, or w/e sportsball game you're familiar with. That 'is' what …

Summarised from 34 of the 281 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made

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Players who liked Master of Magic talk about faithful remake of the classic 1994 game; those who didn't talk about aI is broken or atrocious. Which matters more to you?

Critics, per Wikipedia

The game received an aggregate score of 75/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Most reviews agreed that the game is a very faithful recreation of the original, although some reviewers noted that this is both a strength and a weakness of the game, as its retro feel (mechanics-wise) can be a bit challenging to newer players. One of the minor complaints expressed by several reviewers was the pace of the game, particularly in the beginning, is relatively slow, something that is less common in modern games, where there is more to do from the very beginning. The reviewer for IGN Italia noted that the game's "only and greatest flaw" is the very lackluster diplomacy menu,…

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Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …0752Steam reviews · Jul 13, 2025 · 5 h played

    Master of Magic No More MoM is considered one of the classic 4X games that came out shortly after Civilization really defined the genre. Released in 1994, the original was full of great ideas and, despite a very rocky launch (I remember getting a patch disk in the mail just to be able to play it) ended up being one of my favorite 4X games of all time. It offered two worlds, some interesting game play choices and many hours of quality time building my magical kingdom. This game attempts to be…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0292Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2025 · 8 h played

    Review: Master of Magic (2022) - Updated April 2024 This review is written shortly after all the features from the original and extended roadmaps were completed (see Slitherine forum and news links). Essentially, almost all reviews focused on bugs or lack of Quality-of-Life (QoL) features written prior to December 2023 can be discarded. By December 2023, nearly all the most common complaints found in early reviews—such as the lack of remappable hotkeys, slow game loading, missing…

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  • Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    My first RPG was this: Mastertronic's Master of Magic for Commodore 64. A lite-RPG dungeon crawler with a banger Rob Hubbard tune. It felt like one of my Fighting Fantasy game books come to life.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1683Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2024 · 23 h played

    This is a single player game and the AI is atrocious. The only thing it can do effectively is send out settlers. It's worse than the AI in the original. A 30 year old game. Spellcasting is broken. The AI only actually uses a few spells. The rest are not even implemented. Diplomacy is broken. If one AI cancels a treaty, all of the other AI's act as if the player broke it. Once you have an army of 5 or 6 units, you can take over every AI city. Even late game, they will be defended by 1 or 2…

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  • Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE64.com | Commodore 64 @freeze64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    I’m going to play through this fab #Commodore64 #C64 budget title by Richard Darling… THE MASTER OF MAGIC. IT’s still a brilliant game to play, and what fabulous music by the great Rob Hubbard 👏😃🎶 #Commodore64Ultimate #FREEZE64

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  • Steam user Steam user …4470Steam reviews · Oct 28, 2024 · 173 h played

    The original game with all it's flaws is the one game I've played the most (and being 50+ I've played lots and lots of games for hours upon hours), so when I heard that a remake was being made after all these years I went completely giddy for the chance to return to my favorite game of all time. Weeeeeeell.. to be fair, it's not really any good, is it? The AI is not only bad, it's completely broken.. and the game plays so much worse than the original from all those years ago. Yes, I have…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5102Steam reviews · May 8, 2025 · 17 h played

    The original was my favorite game of the 90s, so maybe I have the idea of the remake on to high a pedestal. While this game does mostly recreate the original, the UI is really bad, the AI is horrible, lots of bugs, and unintuitive controls. Units will randomly move on their own the auto battle will claim a total loss, but if I play it, I come out without a scratch Any time you want to Move units from towns, it will grab the whole stack(defender units) instead of just the active units, making…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9643Steam reviews · Nov 13, 2024 · 5 h played

    I've been playing old Master of Magic (and recently, Caster of Magic) for years. Now, I've finally purchased this remake. After all, the general impression is not good. 30 years have passed since the original game. The mechanics are all on and it's good, but today's standards are high, and I was expecting a higher quality product. 1: graphics is ok, but I'd have expected something better. For instance: 1a: when summoning creatures, there's just a static image. I'd have expected something…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0291Steam reviews · Feb 19, 2026 · 11 h played

    Master of Magic (2022) is a remake of Master of Magic (1994), and it's an interesting game to play. I don't envy the developers who worked on this remake, and I don't think you should play it unless you're curious about classic videogame design. The original game was designed by people who made Master of Orion 1 and later made Master of Orion 2. I recently discovered Master of Orion 1 (in the form of Remnants of the Precursors, a modern remake), and I was surprised how this ancient game seemed…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8002Steam reviews · Jul 10, 2024 · 9 h played

    A huge disappointment. I bought it because I loved the original, 1994 Microprose version. I was hoping 25 years of technology advancement would take a great game and make it better. It didn't the original was better and given the popularity of retro-pixellated looking games now, the original is probably the better choice. Available on GOG.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2254Steam reviews · Feb 6, 2026 · 1 h played

    Game is not finished. AI is very bad typical Slitherine published product. Forum is full of information from players that checked game files and se why AI is braindead, Slitherine fired the developers before game is finished so they never released real full game with working systems. I did not buy this product it was gifted to me from a fanatical charity bundle for about 0.5euros called *safe in our world* Would not recomend product at any price it's not finished, it released pumped…

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  • LogrusUK @logrus.ukBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    #LogLoads64 The Master of Magic One of my all-time favourite #C64 games, MoM is a wonderful example of a budget game done right. Again, you have to load from cassette to see this loading pic, the title pic is also decent (See below). Rob Hubbard's tune, Richard Darling's vibes. Play this now.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2586Steam reviews · Dec 24, 2024 · 46 h played

    I am a big fan of the original. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this game. It is a big step up in terms of graphics from the original but isn't quite up to modern standards. The biggest issue is this is a single player game and the AI is lacking. The game hacks this by giving the AI super powers. Additionally, the game owners have not enabled mods to fix these issues.

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  • Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    Ahh, one of my most meaningful gaming collection goals is complete. If, I promised myself, we ever picked up a Commodore 64 again (which we did last month), then the first RPG I ever played would be one of the games I'd own too: Mastertronic's Master of Magic. 💜

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  • Steam user Steam user …0200Steam reviews · Mar 5, 2026 · 1 h played

    After a few years of not getting it because I knew it would be bad, I finally got it at a deep discount. Sadly - it is worse than what people say. The problem is simple, the game is worse than the game it's suppose to recreate. It is worse than the other games it is in competition with, and it is worse than what is could be, if the UI, the art and the balancing were just fixed. I never thought I would see real 4x jank, but this is it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2609Steam reviews · Oct 23, 2024 · 220 h played

    I understand I have a lot of hours in this, which is why I can easily say that this game's AI is a broken mess and it is completely unfinished. The DLC seems like it was written by a 15 year old (there is literally a robot called Yeet). The original version from the 90s works better than this. It was a cash-grab and I wish I had listened to my initial instincts. The fact the developer/publishers consider this a finished work is astounding.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6143Steam reviews · Dec 19, 2024 · 47 h played

    I would like so much if I could recommend this game. It is almost perfect, the changes compared to the old ones are logical and makes the game-play quicker, old game tended to crash if the map was played too much - I hope the new version won't. Only little thing is worse than the original. The diplomacy. Merlin comes and told me "I don't make treaties easily, but if I do, it will last forever". I succeed to make him an ally. Then he attacks me about ten rounds later. In another game, every…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6635Steam reviews · Jul 14, 2025 · 109 h played

    The AI in this game is very not fun to fight against. Diplomacy is more or less non-existent. Unless you have access to the Aura of Majesty spell from the Sorcery school, it's only a matter of time before one or more of the rival wizards declare war against you for what often seems like no reason. This wouldn't be a problem if the AI's idea of "war" wasn't the most annoying thing imaginable. Upon declaring war on you, the AI will proceed to build several dozen Magic Spirit units (essentially…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3050Steam reviews · Feb 18, 2026 · 12 h played

    I really wanted to like this game because I loved the original... but I just can't. It's not terrible, but it's missing the soul of the original. I wish I could leave a "meh" review, but since I can't, this one gets a thumbs down from me.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0504Steam reviews · Jan 4, 2026 · 129 h played

    I can't begin to quantify just how long I waited for this game to be made. I first ran into Master of Magic in 1995. It was one of my first computer strategy games. I have played MoM nearly every year since. I used to play the game in MS-DOS, and later in "MS-DOS mode", and then DOSBox, I have tried nearly every fantasy turn-based strategy I could find in search of that perfect game: a modern implementation of the Simtex classic. Master of Magic (2022) is not going to be the game for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8594Steam reviews · May 18, 2025 · 4 h played

    I'm really disappointed to have to say it, but there are to many bugs remaining. MuHa games did their best and I'm sure this game could have been great but it's life was cut short. There are mods that attempt to remedy this; but it's to little to late. I'm older now - having cut my teeth on the very first Wizardry - and shouldn't have to have to install xyz to play something that should have been playable in the first place. I'll just stick with the original.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6892Steam reviews · Apr 5, 2025 · 345 h played

    🧙‍♂️ Master of Magic (Slitherine) Playtime: 420+ hours Recommended?: Only if you're a hardcore fan of the original (for now) Pros: Faithful remake of the 90s classic — same addictive mix of spellcasting, empire-building, and tactical battles Tons of spells, units, races, and wizard customization — replay value is high especially if you get the addons. Dual-realm gameplay (Arcanus & Myrror) still feels unique and fun Art style is charming and easy to read Cons: BUGS. So many bugs.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4744Steam reviews · Sep 10, 2024 · 5 h played

    Loved the original version and spent so many hours on it. Finally I decided to buy the updated version but man why are there so many bugs? I'm still in my first game and in this I had units that were fortified but constantly getting focus, cities that I can't build anything because every time I click on a building it jumps to another city. Also, for some reason the graphics feel more messy than the original even though the resolution is higher or maybe I'm just getting old... Actually I'll…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7927Steam reviews · Nov 2, 2025 · 4 h played

    The start is just way too slow with this one. It's basically Civ in slow motion. Even if you take the fastest growth rate faction which is halflings you're looking at hundreds of slow turns before you can get an army even capable of winning a resource site. You can research nice spells fast enough and never have enough manna to use them. You can build all the required buildings to produce decent troops and then not be able to feed a single army. The game takes a level of patience I've never had.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7562Steam reviews · Dec 29, 2024 · 343 h played

    Good remake. Unfortunately the developers abandoned it completely. There are many obvious bugs and issues that seem simple to fix. Still, quite fun and looks good.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9944Steam reviews · Jul 21, 2026 · 216 h played

    I have such a love hate relationship with this game. The combinations and synergies of spells, abilities, and troops is great. The art is beautiful. The RNG is just on the edge of annoying and fun. But I just can't get past the blatant cheating of the AI. I know this is just how strategy games try to make a game challenging. But it just gets annoying to have a single city AI gather a massive army without slowing it's own development at all. Furthermore, while your troops struggle to take…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3876Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2025 · 73 h played

    One of the greatest turn-based strategy games of all time, remastered. A few new heroes added, a few UI tweaks, graphics upgraded, hex-based terrain instead of grid-based. All in all a complete win of an upgrade. I bought the original for $50 in 1994 and played it for almost 30 years - now I have a replacement that's worth the name.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4664Steam reviews · Dec 7, 2024 · 7 h played

    I loved Masters of Magic as a kid. LOVED it. So you can't imagine how much I looked forward to this. Why then, am I not recommending it? Imagine there's a fancy restaurant in town with some of the most delicious food you've ever eaten. The catch is, every 20 minutes, the wait staff pins you down and the chef comes out wearing steel-tipped boots and kicks you square in the balls and forces you eat his unwashed ass like the little ♥♥♥♥♥ you are. That's this game. Except not nearly as sexy as that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6174Steam reviews · Jul 7, 2024 · 98 h played

    An OK game that needed some love. But it was out less than two years and they abandon it? That's pretty sub-optimal. I expected better from Slitherine.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8158Steam reviews · May 19, 2026 · 27 h played

    A soulless reinterpretation of the original. Failing to match features the thirty year old game you are copying had is a bad start, overzealous balancing efforts, ai opponents that seem to be designed to annoy the player rather than beat him (and cheat a lot even on the easiest difficulties) and botched quality of life features like the erratic "familiar combat" round out the picture. As someone who bought and loved the original MoM all those years back and returned to it every now and then…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9517Steam reviews · Dec 3, 2024 · 3 h played

    Terrible game, really shonky commands, poor graphics. The original is much more playable and almost exactly the same game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5670Steam reviews · Feb 12, 2025 · 156 h played

    I've been pretty disappointed with video game remakes in the past. Not this time, in fact I'd say it's the best remake. Why? 1. It keeps the original mechanics of the game. 2. It has lots new mechanics that are OPTIONAL. But I've tried four different optional updates, including the 2 DLCs, and I gotta say, I loved them and felt they blended in seamlessly. 3. Allows workshop content. 4. Not buggy.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1810Steam reviews · Aug 25, 2025 · 9 h played

    Keep it to the point and simple. graphics are an upgrade, nothing spectacular The UI is worse, its a game from the 80's and UI is garbage compared to today. This UI makes the original's UI look like solid gold. These clowns did a very poor job. DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS. Just buy the original, you will have more fun. So disappointing!

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  • JanRock @janrockart.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    I can only wish this game was more of a phenomenon than it is. I understand these are not the days when PC gaming was so focused that a release such as Master of Magic was a major cultural touchstone, but still, AoW4 deserves a larger fanbase and a long life. A very good entry into a storied series.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8507Steam reviews · Jul 30, 2026 · 52 h played

    I had the original Master of Magic back in 1994 and liked it very much. That is exactly why I wanted to like this remake. Unfortunately, this feels like a game that rides on the reputation of the original without really understanding what made it good. The graphics are more modern, sure, but there are effects everywhere and they often get in the way instead of helping. The old game was much clearer to play. What I do not understand is why some mechanics feel worse than in a game released…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5538Steam reviews · Jan 4, 2026 · 6 h played

    same as most of the games i own, i play more on the site version than the steam one, so don't go by hours played, it's a remake of a classic game, i loved the original and tbh it's better in almost every way, not even got the DLC's as of yet as the base game has so many hours in it, depending on how you play it etc would i recommend it, well did you like the first one? if so then yes i would, if you didn't i would still recommend it, as it's better and different enough with a more modern…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6897Steam reviews · May 24, 2025 · 60 h played

    I'm a late adopter. Played the original until recently, then eventually tried this out when it was on sale. Now, having gathered enough experience, I won't be going back. Summary: If you liked the original, of if you're looking for a casual fantasy 4X experience with a lot of variety, you won't be disappointed. To address some criticism: 1) There is an interface issue when moving troops into and from a city, in particular if units with a Guard command are stationed there. That's annoying, but…

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  • Tanuki Dan @tanukidan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    My top 10 game clears in 2024 UFO 50 Spelunky 2 Arzette Zelda 2 Castlevania : Rondo of Blood Castlevania 3 Little Nemo : The Dream Master WitchHand Master of Magic Cobalt Core I've beaten close to 100 different indie and retro games in 2024. I can't wait to play many more!

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  • Steam user Steam user …7238Steam reviews · Nov 13, 2024

    Buggy as hell the first time I bought it. Buggy as hell 2 plus years later.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3814Steam reviews · Oct 5, 2024 · 23 h played

    It's a fair remake of the old MoM. Graphs are a bit too childish for my taste. It has been a long-awaited moment without the traction the old game had, probably because of new gaming influences and personal taste changes. I am very thankful for the remake, and hopefully, it will open the door for another attempt at recreating the old masterpiece.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5007Steam reviews · Jun 1, 2026 · 36 h played

    It's been decades since I played the original. I don't know whether my tastes have changed or if this remake's gameplay is worse. All I know is that the AI cheats it's butt off on higher difficulties and it's obnoxious. It forces you to play passively until you have an overwhelming army regardless of playstyle. Basically, don't provoke any enemies until you can take their capital which will have a full stack of troops and heroes by turn 50 roughly. Even if reduced to only their last city, it…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0870Steam reviews · Apr 28, 2025 · 10 h played

    Art: OK Gameplay loop: Solid 90s throwback like old MoM. The bad: the horrible: The control theme. It is so poorly implemented I'm still struggling to play after 8 hours of game time and I think I'm done. The number of times that I moved troops out of a city by accident because it doesn't do GUARD correctly, the fact that it takes so many clicks and clicks AND key presses its just terrible. Neither the keyboard or the mouse interface is well thought through or consistent between screens.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9471Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2025 · 228 h played

    I'm so glad this remake was at least done properly. Planar Conquest (and whatever it was called before they changed the name) had a cool concept, but still didn't do the mechanics or aesthetics justice. This version's not stupendous either. It's slower that I think a game like this ought to be, and can be glitchy at times (a simple reset fixes it). But the fact that it's moddable makes a huge difference. A lot of other people who love the game as much or more than I do have put a lot of time…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8308Steam reviews · Aug 23, 2024 · 3 h played

    Civilization + Dungeons & Dragons. A lot like the turn-base Might & Magic. Inexpensive (thus great value), amazingly fun, addictive with fantastic replay-ability. Had many long nights with the original DOS version eons ago. The magic of the original are faithfully recreated here. System requirement is pretty low and loading is swift. The mechanics can be overwhelming at first sight but within 5-minute, things will make more sense, Cities are built like Civilization. Heroes could be hired…

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  • Cursed Jeblike Dollthing @namelesswrench.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    This is Master of Magic, the Greatest Video Game Ever Made

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  • Steam user Steam user …1844Steam reviews · Jan 19, 2026 · 134 h played

    Too sloppy. I loved the original back in the day. It's the reason I have a tradition to name my save for ending the session something like 'to bed'. At a first glance this game appears to be a competent and faithful modern remake. However, dig a little deeper and several flaws appear. For one thing it lacks the charm. The art and music is decent enough but isn't used nearly as well as it was back in the 90s version. Far less little pictures and animations for events and spells. Things are…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5002Steam reviews · May 10, 2025 · 23 h played

    SUPER FUN and nostalgic and i get into it.. Crashes. Crashes. Freezes

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  • Steam user Steam user …0982Steam reviews · Mar 18, 2025 · 12 h played

    The bottom line: I've been playing the OG MoM for 30 years. For many of them I had hoped for a remake and in 2022 that became a reality. This game does what I wanted the developer to do, add some quality of life and balance improvements to the game and slap a new coat of paint on it. Just do to Master of Magic what has been done for decades to Madden, FIFA, or w/e sportsball game you're familiar with. That 'is' what they did I just happen to think they did a $20 job, not a $50 job. I do…

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  • 🕹RetroGuyBry🎮 @retroguybry.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    C64 Game of the Day. Master of Magic (1985) by Richard Darling and published on the Mastertronic Added Dimension label. A short enjoyable adventure game that is helped along nicely with music from Rob Hubbard. #Commodore64 #C64 #Retrogames #C64GameOfTheDay

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  • Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    What I'd really like to see is a game in the vein of the canceled Mech Lords/Metal Lords/Mech Wars game that Simtex (Master of Magic, Master of Orion) was working on. That's much larger scope that what you're talking about though :). www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Hp...

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  • Steam user Steam user …8550Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2025 · 53 h played

    Apparently this game was released in 2022 but I've only just got it in 2025. So far so good, it's a solid rework of the original 1994 Master of Magic from Simtex. Pretty 3D graphics, overland and combat maps in hex format and improved UI. Some highlights that I've noted so far: Pros A sensible build queue for towns that can be allowed to run and then adjusted as necessary. Itemised notification of micro-events. New buildings for previously neglected races e.g. Orcs get the Amplifier (for…

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  • Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    I suddenly want to play a new "Masters of Orion" or "Master of Magic" type strategy game. No idea why.

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  • Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.comBluesky · Aug 30, 2024

    I am vacillating between two strategy games that have long since fallen out of memory to many. MASTER OF ORION (basically it was once *the* turn based interstellar strategy game) and WARLORDS (which was once *the* turned based fantasy wargame (I would be tempted also by MASTER OF MAGIC)

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  • Steam user Steam user …9346Steam reviews · Oct 13, 2025 · 1 h played

    I really wanted to get in into the game. To love it. But I can't. Here's why: - interface, c'mon - why do I need to press tab in modern game to have a tooltip? That's annoying AF. - pacing and QoL. initial tens of turn you do nothing. just walk around. and trying to enter POIs to see their guards. Why it can't be automatic when unit is near? Same deal, less clicking. Why can't we have some early fights that are actually winnable? I love Thea series and expected at least same level of quality,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3241Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2025 · 19 h played

    This game brings me back to my childhood. This game literally got me into a career in IT. I had to upgrade my computer from 4MB RAM to 8MB RAM to play it. Good times. But about the game, it holds up after all this time. Totally worth checking out.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1117Steam reviews · Jun 13, 2025 · 163 h played

    I rarely write reviews, but will for this game. I really like this game. It's a 10/10. The only problem I have found is that some workshop items are compatible with the DLC's, but that aint the publishers fault. There is a lot of depth to this game if you take the time to play it. MY biggest gripe is that the spell book is in ordered (first to last) in in how you acquired the spells in each category and not sortable (as far as I can tell). As far a managing the economy, units and magic…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0750Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2025 · 11 h played

    I loved the original. And this had so much potential. But the controls are horrid. Highlight one unit to leave a city and every unit leaves. Left clicking is supposed to deselect a unit, but half the time it sets a go to path. I can't understand how they messed this up so badly. I just can't stand the mess they made of what could have been an epic remake.

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  • deplant @deplant.techBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. (7/20) Master of Magic #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky

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  • Steam user Steam user …4765Steam reviews · Jul 17, 2026 · 5 h played

    As an oldskool Master Of Magic player who poured thousands of hours into the original I was ecstatic to find out there was going to be a remake. Much to my disappointment however the final product, like many empire building strategy games today, ended up mostly just being a reskinned modern day Civ and all the baggage that comes with that moniker. The hex grid, the handholding, right click to move, etc, all that stuff tempers your expectations and bogs down your overall enjoyment. The original…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3894Steam reviews · Jul 8, 2026 · 40 h played

    I never played original MoM. However I played the hell out of its spiritual successors which are Age Of Wonders 1 and 2. That basically is the same game but better: more spells, more units, more races, more tactical combats, even the UI is the same. What change is in AoW you do not have to build 10000 towns across the map, nor to capture 10000 towns when fighting an opponent. This version is basically the original game with modern graphics. It is pretty, no doubt, but the gameplay is from…

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