Near-Mage is a narrative-heavy adventure game with a bit of role-playing DNA that aims to appeal to hardcore players of the genre and newcomers alike.
You're Illy Vraja, a teenager at a crossroads in her life who gets invited to Transylvania by her mysterious Great-Aunt, Domnica, only to find out she comes from a long line of witches, and is entitled to enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick!
As a Near-Mage, you are entering a summer preparatory school, hoping to graduate into a full-fledged spell caster. You’ll take classes in different types of Magick and see how you can use your growing powers to affect the lives of those you come across.
We are from Transylvania, Romania ourselves, so we’re doing a deep dive into its rich lore, legends and superstitions, heavily drawing on them in creating Near-Mage’s dark and colorful world.
Travel freely between three main hubs: the real-life town of Sighișoara, the mythical town of Rakus, that lies beyond a Magickal veil and cannot be seen by most, and the Transylvanian Institute for Magick.
Near-Mage will allow for a lot of freedom when approaching the situations you’ll encounter within the Transylvanian Institute for Magick and its surroundings. When it comes to spell-crafting, you can choose what type of classes you’re taking on a whim, or you can look up recipes in a spellbook and strategize your build.
This build variety will in turn lead to different outcomes for some quest lines, affect certain NPCs’ fates, and result in high replayability. Maybe you’ve erased an NPC’s memory on your first play-through. What if you used a different spell on them this time around… or no spell at all?
You’ll be able to play Near-Mage as a point and click, or you can control the character directly. Walk to your objectives, run at full speed, or even fly there!
Make friends or enemies with fellow students, learn to be closer to your Magickal calling, and lift the veil off of ancient mysteries in Near-Mage!
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Posted on: September 12, 2025
Persona Non Grata
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 80 Opinie: 3
Not a point and click adventure
I really wanted to give this 2.5 stars because the game itself is fine. It's just that it is misadvertised as a point and click when this is really a visual novel experience so if you are an adventure game enphusiast like myself you will be very disapointed.
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Posted on: June 1, 2025
kpopmisc_0235
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 1 Opinie: 1
The game starts slowly
The game starts slowly, it's only after playing for more than 2 hors I finally started seeing story development. It took me 4 hours to cast my first spell. But after the initial slow progress it gets better and better with each minute. The game is pretty linear, you can't perform a lot of actions that make sense before speaking with someone. You can't choose which quest to pursue, in fact most of the time you will have only one quest to follow. But it is fun! And so so beautiful. The main character voicing is pretty aweful especially comparing to the rest of charactaers. It feels like Illy was voiced by a fan or something. But despite the downsides I really enjoy the game even though it's very much not what I thought it was. If you expect to see a well thought out RPG that's not it. But it's a very fun variation of point-and-click adventure.
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Posted on: June 1, 2025
MadPilgrim
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 405 Opinie: 214
Near-Perfect Adventure
Pretty adventure game with good writing and amazing voice acting. Light on puzzles, but I consider it a plus knowing how horrible this genre can be in that department.
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Posted on: June 6, 2025
pheslin
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 36 Opinie: 1
a few glitches but still interesting
very interesting and enjoyable. Some occasional glitches.
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Posted on: June 22, 2025
kablounack3
Gry: 299 Opinie: 5
Nice adventure
The story is good and I like the characters. But, too much help.
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