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Magin: The Rat Project Stories

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57%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
78% User Score Based on 32 reviews
Critic Score 30%Based on 1 reviews

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About Magin: The Rat Project Stories

Magin: The Rat Project Stories is a single player tactical role playing game with drama and anime themes. It was developed by The Rat Project and was released on April 29, 2026. It received negative reviews from critics and mostly positive reviews from players.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories takes place in a dark fantasy world, where magic – or essence, as it is called – is directly tied to the desires and fears of its inhabitants.Shape the fate of Elester, a Magin and veteran hitman in an underworld syndicate, as well as young Tolen, who is about to realize that he too can use the essence to his advantage.Step into a mature, magical world standing on th…

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78%Audience ScoreBased on 32 reviews
story10 positive mentions
grinding1 negative mentions
  • Unique and appealing comic-style art with excellent voice acting and soundtrack that greatly enhance immersion.
  • Engaging and interesting story with well-developed characters and good world-building that fans of narrative-driven games will appreciate.
  • Innovative essence mechanic adds strategic depth to combat, rewarding careful management and tactical card play.
  • Combat balance issues cause frustration, with some encounters feeling unfair or unwinnable without restarts or metaknowledge, leading to potential softlocks.
  • Repetitive and slow-paced combat encounters with high enemy health can make battles feel like a slog and reduce overall enjoyment.
  • Limited deckbuilding flexibility due to cards being tied to story choices results in stuck situations where players may need to replay large parts to succeed.

  • story

    28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    36% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 11% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for its interesting worldbuilding, unique art style, and engaging narrative delivered through voiced, comic-styled scenes, though some find the writing average and the pacing slow with limited twists. Players appreciate the integration of story choices impacting card-based combat, but combat difficulty and the linear progression can detract from overall enjoyment. Overall, the story offers a compelling and immersive experience, especially for fans of narrative-driven card games.

    • “The worldbuilding is incredible, the story keeps me engaged, the art style is super unique, the writing is amazing and the combat system is both demanding and rewarding.”
    • “The art style is quite unique, with that comic book vibe, and the nonlinear story is delivered through fully voiced scenes that really pull you into adventure.”
    • “The essence system is a creative and fun hook, blending story decisions with combat ones.”
    • “If I retry the story, I would then learn that I have to choose the right card through options, rather than story investment, and suddenly I'm detached from the story as I'm only interested in not becoming stuck.”
    • “The storytelling is slow paced, without many twists and turns, which makes it not that exciting to engage with.”
    • “It's a fairly linear story (not a bad thing) with very average writing where each exchange between characters has to have a mandatory quip at the other person.”

  • graphics

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are widely praised for their unique, gorgeous art style with a comic book vibe that enhances immersion and complements the engaging story and worldbuilding. Players find the visual design captivating and integral to the overall experience.

    • “The art style is quite unique, with that comic book vibe, and the nonlinear story is delivered through fully voiced scenes that really pull you into adventure.”
    • “The art style is gorgeous and collecting the eggs around the map was fun.”
    • “The game is really great; the art style is amazing and the story and lore are genuinely interesting.”

  • gameplay

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The gameplay features a unique blend of point-and-click adventure and card-based combat with an interesting essence mechanic, adding a fresh twist that engages fans of the genre. However, balance issues, particularly with card properties and action point costs, can make some mechanics underutilized and battles frustratingly difficult. Despite these drawbacks, the game's mechanics and art style receive positive recognition for their quality and originality.

    • “The Rat Project team did a great job blending point-and-click adventure mechanics with card-based combat, giving the game a unique twist - strongly recommend it to fans of the genre who are looking for something fresh and a bit different.”
    • “Mechanics are great but balance and blocking modifying deck because of the limit of cards and 'one time use' cards changing the minimum limit.... I would love to play the game again, but not with the balance like that.”
    • “The essence bar mechanic is a nice addition, adding depth to the gameplay.”
    • “However, these also cost action points, so if I have better non-essence cards, then these are basically never played and half of the game mechanics are unused.”
    • “However, there is a mechanic that shortens time to reply based on your essence level (which are kind of emotional states).”
    • “- Gameplay that might not be enough on its own, but is more than enough to keep you engaged.”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The music received mixed feedback, with some users praising the soundtrack and voice acting as great and fitting, while others found the music dull and unengaging. Overall, the soundtrack is considered a strong point by many players.

    • “I really like the voice acting and the soundtrack.”
    • “Amazing art style and soundtrack.”
    • “Music is also great.”
    • “Music sucks, it's too dull.”

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game incorporates an emotional mechanic where the player's essence level, representing different emotional states, influences gameplay by shortening the time allowed to reply, adding a unique emotional dynamic to the experience.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users express frustration with grinding, highlighting the significant time and effort invested that can be easily lost, making progress feel fragile and discouraging.

    • “I lost so much progress, hours and hours of grinding and hard work, gone in an instant...”
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30%Critics’ scoreBased on 1 critic reviews
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Magin: The Rat Project Stories is a tactical role playing game with drama and anime themes. Common tags for Magin: The Rat Project Stories include turn-based, indie, trading, magic, deckbuilding and others.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories was released on April 29, 2026.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories was developed by The Rat Project.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories has received negative reviews from players and negative reviews from critics. Most players liked Magin: The Rat Project Stories for its story but disliked it for its grinding.

Magin: The Rat Project Stories is a single player game.

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