The Magician's Burden
Hosted Games · 2018 · RPG, Indie, Adventure, Text-Based
PC
Mixed53% · 15
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About The Magician's Burden
Experience everyday life as a magician in a medieval village. Balance spending time with your family with building friendships or finding romance with other villagers. Find work as a guard, scribe, farmer, or even a thief. Deal with relentless bullies one way or another. Play in chess tournaments, explore a necromancer's cave, go to the library, or practice your sword fighting in the sparring ring. The Magician's Burden is a 210,000 word interactive slice of life novel by Samwise Harry Young, where your choices control the story. It's text-based, with vivid character illustrations, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; romance whoever you like.
- Cast spells with a wave of your fingertips: turn invisible, throw fireballs, heal wounds, and more.
- Use demonic magic—at a price—or resist the temptation.
- Read approximately 40k words per play-through!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I think I know what the burden is - it is being woke. The story is... dumb? I get it that you choose a part-time job, but twice? First time I did it I thought the game was broken and I restarted. You're a mage - that works THREE extra part-time jobs for a living. Is this supposed to be some sort of social commentary on modern economic issues? But why would literal village idiots have their one mage (in a world where bloodthirsty, malicious demons lurk) work three part time jobs (like clerking, being a guard or a farmhand) waste their time like this, instead, I don't know, learning magic to defend against demons? The bully posse plot is borderline retarded. For a strong, independent black woman with a mohawk, the vice-captain of the guard is surprisingly incompetent if they allow three bullies to terrorize a single villager every day of their life. This is a village, right? Everybody sees this, and no-one reacts. Just have the mayor resign and just kneel before three bullies, while having actual guardsmen answering to him. And boy, is the game woke. Strong black female warrior with a mohawk, check. Shy black healer boy who you can gay romance, check. Mysterious and cool bald dark…42 found this helpful
Very meh. wasn't put together well at all (thought the reviews were harsh, turns out no, they're pretty spot on)9 found this helpful
The cat... the cat, man... this game traumatized me.3 found this helpful
loved it
Good enough. But I liked more before they changed the ending. I thought that the update would add a resolution to the cliffhanger, not remove it entirely....
Can`t say I hate this game don`t get whats with all the bad reviews. Though personally a second installment would make it better. Overall game
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