The Magician's Research
Mad Labyrinth Studios LLC · 2019 · Hack and Slash, Incremental, Idler, Collectathon, Dungeon Crawler
PC
Mixed58% · 265
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About The Magician's Research
The MAGICIAN'S RESEARCH is an RPG style IDLE - INCREMENTAL - MANAGEMENT Game! The Experiments of the Mage's Guild have broken out and you are tasked with tracking down, researching, and disposing of them before they can disturb the nearby towns or multiply!
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You’re on your way to the Mage’s Guild as the newest recruitee when you run into Aliseth the Master of the Mage’s Guild. He informs you that somehow the magical experiments of the mage’s tower have broken free and seems to be magically multiplying by the moment. He needs every able body out to research and then dispose of the experiments before they can disturb the nearby towns or duplicate infinitely!You, being the eager Mage-ling you are, decide to oblige your new boss and head off into the fields of the surrounding areas to slay some mighty beasties!
Well… Now that’s the question isn’t it? Choose from one of 10 magician’s, each with their own special bonuses! (You can change at any time). Play as the one you think looks the best, the one with your favorite bonus, or be a changeling and flip around as they suit your situation.You can then unlock SUPPORT slots where you can use other mages but at half of their normal power. This lets you combo some of their bonuses to create your custom gameplay style. Unlock up to 4 additional slots for a total of 5 mages to mix together.
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Well you and the enemy both have health, so be careful! You’ll want to try to stay alive to get to the next experiments to research. You can tap the enemy with a left click to do damage. If your health gets low you can click heal yourself or drink a health potion! Use DPS potions for extra short term damage and energy regen for extra clicking!(Automation: You can also use the auto-clicks that will click for you - There's even a Mage that can help those do more damage! The auto-move will attempt to progress you forward every 30 minutes until you’re defeated again).
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You give it to someone who wants it, but don’t give it for free! Make sure they give you something to make you a better Mage!! Always try to be a better Mage.At the TRADERS you can trade Liquid Gold, Runes, and Dragon Eggs. These all have different advantages. Dragon Eggs give powerful buffs with low caps and the unspent Dragon Eggs stay with you through Time Shifting. Runes give small bonuses but you'll find a lot more of them, you trade them to the fairies for Boons that stack up and up and up. Liquid Gold powers up your Spells. These are your main source of progression, they give you health, damage, defense, loot bonuses, clicking, and more!
Every TRADER gets a PERMANENT bonus too! They're called WINDOW FACTIONS. You get them just for using the Traders! You trade in enough goods with them and they just give you a bonus. Trade in enough liquid gold and you'll find yourself finding more. Trade in enough Dragon Eggs, they might magically not reset when you time shift!
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Watch out for that Curse Eater though, she may be cute but she’s super scary! Who puts a bow on a pink skull? ...Who has a pink skull?? She'll take your Cursed Amulets you find and trade them in for all kinds of extra loot. They're cursed so they like to cling to you, they don't reset on Time Shifting either.
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Go find some more experiments! Get stronger, do more research. Level up and get some skill points. Spend them to get good bonuses from the SKILL TREE. Be careful of those ELITE EXPERIMENTS though. They might have some cool rewards but they hurt!
You don't need to be here all the time either! Tab out, take a break, come back and see your Mage doing his or her job fighting the baddies! Spend all that loot they have saved up for you and watch them burst down some enemies in a haze.
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In The Magician's Research when you Rebirth/Prestige it's called Time Shifting and you only go back to HALF of the max stages you've ever reached instead of starting ALLLL the way back at the very beginning. Why waste all that time climbing back up? You still get to burst down some mobs and feel epic but then you get to get back to the fight and whack some baddies much sooner!The prestige currencies in the game come in two shapes and both stack up everytime you Time Shift:
You have one that rewards your pushing called KNOWLEDGE POINTS. You get these for every new Mage Level you reach. Every first time you reach a new Mage Level you get one of these bad boys to add to the pool. These increase your experience yields for ALLL future runs. So essentially every time you get more knowledge points you level faster getting you back up to where you were faster!
Then you have your "farming" reward called MONSTER POPULATION. You get these for EVERY stage you pass every Time Shift you go through! They increase your health and damage permanently for all future runs too. You even get bonuses to that run's gains every 250 Stages you pass. AND after you time shift and you start at that HALF your max stages EVER reached, you get a starting booster bonus to your gains so you're not missing out on what you would have earned if you had started from Stage 0 (and you get it much quicker than if you had to start all over again!).
Between the two currencies you can shoot back up and push push push. If you're starting to slow down you have two options. If you're really tenacious you can wait for another mage level or more Liquid Gold, Runes, etc and push out a few more Stages or hit a burst of power and grab some more Knowledge points, or time shift and try for more Monster Population and store your bonuses that you gained from your last run. Time Shift more, or less ,depending on how you like to play, slow and steady, fast and furious, or somewhere in between!
This game is all about playing how you like to play and finding your own pace and strategy for your idle and management experience. We hope you enjoy!
Get stronger, go further! Keep at it! We have faith you’ll be the strongest Magician ever! (Hopefully).
What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
The Magician's Research features appealing artwork and functional idle mechanics that work well during breaks or while multitasking, with some comparing it favorably to similar clicker games. However, players consistently criticize the lack of offline progression, which is a major drawback for an idle game, and complain about poor tutorials and unclear resource management systems that make the game frustrating to navigate.
The Magician’s Research is an idle RPG developed and published by Mad Labyrinth Studios LLC that combines automated progression systems with fantasy role-playing mechanics and management elements. Built around long-term advancement and experimentation, the game places players into a magical world where research, combat efficiency, and constant optimization form the heart of the experience. While many incremental games focus entirely on increasing numbers and passive progression, this title attempts to create something more involved by layering multiple systems together to keep progression meaningful over extended play sessions. The game begins with players joining the Mage’s Guild during a dangerous magical crisis. Experimental creations have escaped control and spread across the surrounding world, forcing guild members to investigate and eliminate the growing threat. Rather than presenting an elaborate story filled with extensive dialogue and cinematic sequences, the game uses its setting as a framework for its progression systems. Advancement becomes the primary source of satisfaction, encouraging players to continually improve their magical capabilities while discovering increa…2 found this helpful
The Magician's Research does have beautiful artwork (supposedly generated by AI) but lacks the important elements to be an attractive idle game. It's because there isn't offline progress. You'd better click actively to damage the monsters, collect resources or heal your characters. Also, there isn't clear information or a tutorial about hot to use or allocate the resources collected in the game.
Don't like there is no offline idle, but otherwise it's okay
Игра "The Magician's Research" предлагает захватывающее, хотя и короткое, приключение в роли начинающего мага, исследующего таинственный особняк. Геймплей представляет собой смесь point-and-click адвенчуры с элементами головоломок, требующих внимательности и логического мышления. Атмосфера таинственности и магии создается благодаря стилизованной графике и атмосферному саунд-дизайну. Несмотря на простоту визуального исполнения, игра компенсирует это интересным сюжетом и уместно сложными задачами. Расследование продвигается плавно, предлагая игроку новые открытия и подозрения по мере продвижения. Некоторые головоломки могут потребовать нестандартного подхода, однако в целом игра не перегружена чрезмерной сложностью, что делает ее доступной для широкой аудитории. Любителям жанра и тем, кто ищет недолгую, но увлекательную игру с магическим сеттингом, "The Magician's Research" определенно стоит внимания. Единственным недостатком можно назвать её небольшую продолжительность, оставляющую ощущение незаконченности, но это с лихвой компенсируется положительными впечатлениями от игрового процесса.
Decent idle clicker with mage and battle reminiscent of mechanics of sakura clicker with less waifus and interesting art.
fun game for at work lol. let it idle while i do work, upgrade my stuff on breaks. seems to work out perfectly kinda boring is playing actively but... thats not the purpose of this game so idk what to rate... 5/10? Pretty average.
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