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Magin: The Rat Project Stories

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62%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
79% User Score Based on 29 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 mostly positive reviews from players.

In addition to Magin: The Rat Project Stories the Essence Edition contains the following DLC: - Comic Book - Additional VFX for Cards - Digital Artbook - Original Soundtrack - The story of "Essence" and its usage - Supporter Main Menu FEATURES: - A dark & mysterious setting with story elements being told in a comic-like panels - Deckbuilder Combat, where you build your deck as the story progresse…

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79%Audience ScoreBased on 29 reviews
story9 positive mentions
grinding1 negative mentions
  • Excellent art style with a unique comic book vibe and great voice acting.
  • Interesting and engaging story with good world-building and character development.
  • Essence meter system adds a strategic layer to card battles and timing of card play is important.
  • Combat balance issues cause some fights to feel frustrating, repetitive, or unwinnable without restarts or save scumming.
  • Slow pacing in both the narrative and combat sections can reduce player engagement.
  • Some design flaws such as inefficient hard mode lives system, inability to skip dialogues, and RNG reliance detract from the overall experience.

  • story

    21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    43% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for its interesting, engaging narrative and unique comic book style, with fully voiced scenes and strong worldbuilding enhancing immersion. However, some find the writing average and slow-paced, with a linear plot and frequent quips that may reduce excitement. Additionally, the blend of story with card combat can be off-putting for players focused solely on narrative or new to the combat system.

    • “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 the adventure.”
    • “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.”
    • “Fully voiced dialogues also make the story feel a lot more personal than a wall of text, which made me want to talk to random NPCs I met along the way.”
    • “It's a fairly linear story with very average writing, where each exchange between characters has a mandatory quip at the other person.”
    • “The storytelling is slow paced, without many twists and turns, which makes it not that exciting to engage with.”
    • “Overall, both the story and combat are serviceable but lack the punch that would make them exciting.”

  • graphics

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features a unique and visually stunning art style, often described as gorgeous and comic book-inspired, which significantly enhances the immersive experience. Players consistently praise the graphics for their creativity and contribution to the engaging worldbuilding and storytelling.

    • “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 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 gorgeous and collecting the eggs around the map was fun.”

  • gameplay

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    43% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The gameplay features well-designed mechanics, notably the unique essence bar that influences response time, blending point-and-click adventure with card-based combat for a fresh experience. However, some players find the balance and limitations of one-time-use cards restrictive. Overall, the gameplay is engaging and offers a distinctive twist for genre fans.

    • “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.”
    • “The essence bar mechanic is a nice addition that adds depth to the gameplay.”
    • “There is a mechanic that shortens reply time based on your essence level, which represents emotional states, adding an interesting strategic element.”

  • music

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

    The music receives mixed feedback, with some users praising the soundtrack and voice acting as great and amazing, while others find the music dull and unappealing.

    • “Music is also great.”
    • “I really like the voice acting and the soundtrack.”
    • “Amazing art style and soundtrack.”
    • “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 players' essence levels, reflecting their emotional states, influence gameplay by shortening response times, adding a dynamic and immersive emotional dimension.

  • grinding

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

    Grinding in the game is time-consuming and can be frustrating, especially since significant progress can be lost unexpectedly, diminishing the value of hours spent.

    • “I lost so much progress, hours and hours of grinding and hard work, gone in an instant...”
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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 mostly positive reviews from players. 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.

Similar games include Death Howl, Ash of Gods: Redemption, Nowhere Prophet, Songs of Silence, Arco and others.