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84%3k84% positive reviews, Very Positive across 3k reviews·Magic · Colony Sim
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Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.
🎴 300+ Collectible Buildings or Cards
📜 120+ Researchable BPs.
📅 200+ Mainline and Random Events
🧙 100+ Different Wizard Classes
✨ 200+ Random Apprentice Traits

Arcana Academy is a magic-themed card simulation management game filled with many mysteries waiting to be discovered. In the game, you play as a mage headmaster, freely constructing your magic academy, summoning human, elf, and even dangerous vampire and werewolf students to support the reconstruction of the empire.

Use over 300 collectible buildings or cards to freely construct your own magic academy, from Regular Classrooms to Mage Spires, from manual Workshops to automated Production—upgrade Facilities and Buildings step by step, improve Production lines, and boost Production efficiency. Summon different Races, handle sudden Events, and explore over 200 unique Mainline or random Events.


With over 40 mysterious and special summon rituals, add your favorite materials to the ritual—offerings can be souls, money, or even living beings. The correct execution of a ritual usually requires fixed offerings, and the results are generally consistent; but if you break the rules, the outcome may lead to terrifying unknowns...


Every academy's name and emblem can be freely defined. analyze each apprentice's unique trait combination (randomly generated from over 200 traits), select and admit them to your academy, teach according to their abilities, and enforce discipline with over 40 different academy rules for those lacking self-control. With over 100 different magic books, help them unravel the mysteries of the elements, Select their future class paths, and complete assessments. There are over 100 different wizard class selection assessments, leading them to become geniuses... or fall into mediocrity.


During your academy's construction, monsters will constantly eye you with hostility. To ensure peace and stability for your academy, you can send people to deal with them, or pay some "protection fees" in exchange for more development opportunities.


With over 120 researchable blueprints, as you expand your academy, you will encounter new knowledge and magic, master more technology, and fully automate production to rapidly develop your academy. But continuous development is a double-edged sword—more crises may follow, so be sure to prepare accordingly.

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