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Mage and Monsters II

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

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Quick resume

Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.

Global score

84/100

Genres

Strategy

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    Pros

    • Fun and accessible auto-battler gameplay
    • Variety of heroes with distinct playstyles
    • Good value for price with frequent updates
    • Strategic depth in army building and upgrades
    • Relaxing and casual play experience

    Cons

    • Lack of meta progression and persistent upgrades
    • Limited unit variety and customization
    • Some balance issues and difficulty spikes
    • No multiplayer or social features
    • Repetitive late-game and limited content

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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      "Focus is on personal progress and self-improvement rather than direct competition with others; no mention of leaderboards or PvP."

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can customize hero builds, choose upgrades, and experiment with army compositions, but within predefined races and units."

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay typical of fighting games; no physical activity or health-related features."

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    • Idle

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      "Some players mention watching battles passively and playing in short sessions; game allows for casual engagement."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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      "Players manage crew and base upgrades, implying some leadership role, but no multiplayer leadership."

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    • Progression

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      "Limited meta progression and unlocks exist, but runs mostly reset gear and skills; progression is light."

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Idle, Thrill, Violence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026