# The Magician's Burden

Summer DB entity ID: e676401d\-5084\-447f\-a434\-fa357abfed27

Steam App ID: 884430

Experience everyday life as a magician in a medieval village\. Balance spending time with your family with building friendships or finding romance with other villagers\. Find work as a guard, scribe, farmer, or even a thief\. Deal with relentless bullies one way or another\. Play in chess tournaments, explore a necromancer's cave, go to the library, or practice your sword fighting in the sparring ring\.      The Magician's Burden  is a 210,000 word interactive slice of life novel by Samwise Harry Young, where your choices control the story\. It's text\-based, with vivid character illustrations, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.       Play as male, female, or nonbinary; romance whoever you like\.     Cast spells with a wave of your fingertips: turn invisible, throw fireballs, heal wounds, and more\.     Use demonic magic—at a price—or resist the temptation\.     Read approximately 40k words per play\-through\!       Oh, yes\. You also have a demon living inside your head\. He talks to you and occasionally offers you his demonic powers\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Hosted Games

- Publisher: Hosted Games

- Release date: Aug 16, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/884430/ss\_3a30cbf1f3d586c6ad3fa3bed184430b5c9ab032\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1757095028, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/884430/ss\_b8cd6e875c4708a7b8fad28f3d78c2bb98ec476f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1757095028, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/884430/ss\_5b378bafd156fb57056f7a7148197b57d1cf4cc5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1757095028, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/884430/ss\_8b5a038aa0262d796350dd9880d0be78310822dc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1757095028, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/884430/ss\_376744f409b14a375e46dc65c31fcd982cde3d34\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1757095028

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 15

- Steam positive reviews: 8

- Steam negative reviews: 7

- Steam positive percentage: 53.333333333333336%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/e676401d-5084-447f-a434-fa357abfed27/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/e676401d-5084-447f-a434-fa357abfed27/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T15:30:15\.116213\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T15:30:17\.619006\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T15:30:16\.08016\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/884430/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/e676401d-5084-447f-a434-fa357abfed27)