Magicmaker similar games & best alternatives

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Magicmaker

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

Should you play it?

Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!

What works

  • Extensive spell customization and creativity
  • Humorous and charming art style
  • Strong replay value with new game+ and challenges
  • Responsive controls and satisfying combat
  • Active and passionate developer support

Things to keep in mind

  • Short main story and limited narrative depth
  • Some performance issues with particle effects
  • Gameplay can become repetitive and easy
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Limited environmental variety and procedural generation flaws

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Spell Disk

  • Magicraft

  • Machick 2

  • Cally's Caves 3

  • Reventure

  • Cultivation Story: Reincarnation

More intense

Games that feels like Magicmaker but with a more intense feel

  • In Celebration of Violence

  • ZERO Sievert

  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

  • Rogue Legacy

  • Starward Rogue

  • Overture

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Magicmaker: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026