Release Date: May 27, 2025
Genres/Tags: Adventure, Side, 2D
Developer: Stuck in the Attic
Publisher: Stuck in the Attic
Platform: PC [Repack]
Engine: Unity
Steam User Rating: 96% of user reviews are positive (based on 28 reviews)
Interface Language: English, Russian, German
Audio Language: English
Crack: GOG DRM-free
Minimum requirements:
Operating System: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3, 2.5 GHz with multithreading or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB
Video Card: HD Graphics 3000
DirectX: Version 11
HDD Space: up to 9.6 GB
ATTENTION! The minimum size of the repack is 2.5 GB, read repack features section for details.

Description: You have been invited to stay in Transylvania for the summer... Only to find out that you come from a long line of witches. Meet your new vampyre and strigoi classmates, embrace your destiny, and enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick! A supernatural adventure made in Transylvania.
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.
Meet Illy Vraja - 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!
Study 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 .
Made in Transylvania - 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!

Game Features
Study spell crafting in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick as a Near-Mage.
Experience a deep and engaging story that plays like an adventure game.
Craft your own spell inventory, use it with different results in every play-through.
Dozens of vampyres, pricolitch, moroi, strigoi, ghouls, shtima - your spells change their lives for better or worse.
Hand-painted in glorious 4K and traditionally animated frame-by-frame.
Dozens of itemized outfits and hairstyles to customize your main character.
A game about Transylvania made by Transylvanians!

Repack Features
Based on Near-Mage-FCKDRM ISO release: fckdrm-near-mage.iso (5,136,121,856 bytes)
Bonus Content (OST + ArtBook, 601 MB) and Clothes & Hair Pack DLC (44 MB) added
Game version: v1.0.0b
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Selective Download feature: you may skip downloading and installing of bonus content
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from cumulative 5.4 to 2.5/3 GB)
Installation takes 5-12 minutes (depending on your system and selected components)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: up to 9.6 GB
Language can be changed in game settings
Repack uses XTool library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Repack by FitGirl