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Magic Research 2ios
Matias Ezequiel Colotto · Juegos

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Experience the long-awaited sequel to Magic Research! In Magic Research 2, you are a rookie wizard with a single ambition: to find or create the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary magical item that is said to be able to cure any illness. As you do so, you will learn more than you ever imagined about Magic and about the world around you. What kinds of adventures await you? * Use your arsenal of more than 120 distinct spells to make progress * Study the Elements! Learn new ways to use Magic in your path to mastery * Transmute (magically craft) over 250 different items to help you on your journey * Control a team of Wizards that will cast Spells for you * Enjoy a deep, semi-automated combat system as you make your way through dozens of areas to explore * Discover tons of secrets - many of which will change the way you play the game! * Encounter over a hundred distinct Storylines with powerful bonuses along your journey * Restart the game and make progress faster each time with retirement bonuses * Over 60 hours of addictive gameplay - with a clear ending! (Or perhaps more than one...?) * Optimized both for phones and tablet devices You do not need to have played Magic Research in order to enjoy Magic Research 2!

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As of Jul 4, 2026stale (74d)
Rating 4.77
Ratings 115
Price $4.69
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Released May 21, 2024

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Version history

Versions observed at capture, newest first
v1.8.6Aug 9, 2024
- Fix crash on startup when there is no save data present (i.e. for new players of the game)

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Player reviews

Recent store reviews · rule-based labels
Sampled 37
Positive 28 (76%)
Negative 4 (11%)
Mentions pricing 7 (19%)
5★26 (70%)
4★2 (5%)
3★5 (14%)
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★★★★★positiveEricL8 · 2026-08-30 · v1.8.6
Best mobile game ever played
Never write reviews, this game has amazing depth that just kept me playing over and over. I’ve played so many games with similar styles but this beats them all.
★★★★★positiveJames K42 · 2026-08-24 · v1.8.6
Best incremental game on the store
Great incremental game. Pretty active and really entertaining. I play it every time I have to fly because it makes the time fly away.
★★★★★positiveMichaelStorms · 2026-04-14 · v1.8.6
Magic research 2
Honestly this game is fantastic, the first one was amazing and some how this blew it out of the water. One of the only mobile games I look forward to what’s coming next.
★★★★★negativesqrtz · 2026-01-17 · v1.8.6
Entirely Devoid
Hardly idle, extremely complicated and feels like babysitting a bunch of tedious timers. The UI is absolutely atrocious as well.
★★★★★positivetophathuman · 2025-12-26 · v1.8.6
Incredible game
Amazing sense of progression and fun build types, one of the best in the genre on the App Store
★★★★★neutralAngry Sullivan · 2025-10-22 · v1.8.6
why do
why do time pieces cap out at 100k? i dont feel like that makes sense for a paid game. Just took like 5 days off to accrue time pieces, come back in, realized they were capped. rest of the game is mind blowingly good if you’re into idles. ADD med paradise. not sure how one person even thinks of all that stuff. maybe serious outlines?
★★★★★positiveColinMyth · 2025-10-01 · v1.8.6
Incremental Masterclass
This game is now my gold standard for incremental games. If you’re reading this, buy it. It’s incredibly good.
★★★★★positiveDerpy McDerpenstein · 2025-09-26 · v1.8.6
A true semi-idle masterpiece
10/10 amazing game. Any news on DLC or sequel?
★★★★★positiveThinMints4Life · 2025-06-23 · v1.8.6
Worth your time
I enjoyed the first game and wanted to give the sequel a go. Did not disappoint. Cant wait to see what the developer does next.
★★★★★positiveBen scythe · 2025-06-06 · v1.8.6
Absolutely Worth
The game adds some changes to the previous game, with more complexities and yet I feel like it still delivers. There are some UI issues that are usual with games like this. When the inventory is important, like it is in this game, it leads to complaints that it’s not as easy to navigate, but most sorting will not sort in the *exact* way that you want. That aside, the other difficulty is feeling the need to farm areas, especially in late game. I think that would be relieved with familiar search time being tweaked down a bit. Besides those two minor complaints, I’ve loved the story and the way it progresses and love this and the last game. Well done!
★★★★★positiveTraxxofAOT · 2025-04-09 · v1.8.6
Absolutely fantastic
This game hooked me very quickly and in a way I didn’t think it was possible
★★★★★neutralMentions pricingOpiMuskogee · 2025-01-28 · v1.8.6
Great, but bugged.
This is a really fun game. Definitely worth the price when it is working. However, the app my started rapidly pushing buttons on its own and overheating my phone. I even went so far as to remove my $50 screen protector thinking that was the culprit. This game has turned out to be much more costly than I thought.
★★★★★neutralChrizBreck · 2024-12-31 · v1.8.6
UI
I remember loving the first game. Sunk a stupid amount of hours into it. It don’t remember the UI being as painful. Something about this version just doesn’t flow right. Transmuting at the start of each run is a main action but the transmute screen is cumbersome and the inventory becomes a jumbled mess. Each screen requires scrolling but jusssssst a little bit. Like a slightly smaller UI and it would fit on one page.
★★★★★positiveHungryjethro · 2024-10-25 · v1.8.6
Detailed and engaging
I like Magic Research so much I bought them both on mobile and on steam. I just wish there was a macOS version.
★★★★★neutral234986725 · 2024-10-19 · v1.8.6
Good game, bad performance
Love the game but wow it lags and gets choppy in the late game. Tried playing with all the settings, nothing helps.
★★★★★positiveDaisanLegacy · 2024-09-17 · v1.8.6
Wonderful semi-idle game
One of the best idle games out there. The first was an incredible experience and while I preferred that to this sequel. Magic Research 2 is still one of the greatest idle games on the App Store currently. I’ve tried a lot of them. My biggest gripe is there’s a lot more resources to juggle this time around but thankfully the info does get displayed well as long as you find which menu it’s under!
★★★★★positiveSquidsword · 2024-08-29 · v1.8.6
Incredible game. Almost perfect, needs better automation and convenience features.
The flow of the game is amazing and addicting. I almost have nothing bad to say. The major problem for me is that the game has a dreadful micromanaging processs at the beginning of each retirement and at many of the feature unlocks. You need to manually and repetitively press the same buttons over and over again each retirement every time you unlock something to set up automation. If you forget, your run is stunted until you remember. I was originally having a blast replaying the game with the post game features, but eventually the lack of automation hurt my interest as it became too much of a chore. My first time clearing this game was probably the most fun I’ve had playing an incremental though.
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingbraca_belua · 2024-08-15 · v1.8.6
Where a 50 hour game experience feels long, this 120+ hour game flies by
This game scratches that deep seated itch to find ridiculous patterns to optimizing the workflows without being too cumbersome like Minecraft or factorial feel when playing on the go. I’m not sure how I spent 121 hours on a game like this but here we are. Definitely worth the purchase at double the price, let alone what the developer is charging here.
★★★★★negativeMr.Happydays · 2024-08-08 · v1.8.5
Game crashes on startup
Can't open game at all. Will change rating when addressed.
★★★★★positiveKal Drake · 2024-08-03 · v1.6.4
Fantastic!!
I played his first game and completed it 100%. Easily one of my favorite phone games. So stoked to play this new one!
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingkarkat612 · 2024-07-27 · v1.6.4
Hooked for a week
Amazing game with so much content! The flow of new (and meaningful!) abilities keeps the game perpetually fresh. My favorite part of the game is the multiplicative bonuses. Best game of the genre by far, and has a concrete ending to work towards so you don’t feel like Sisyphus. Short and sweet, definitely worth the purchase.
★★★★★positivePhoenix00017 · 2024-07-24 · v1.6.4
Top-notch incremental game
Magic Research 2 is one of the most compelling incremental (idle, but more active) games I’ve ever played. It has tons of content, fun writing, lots of features, interesting systems, and compelling challenges. It’s also under constant development - multiple times I’ve thought “it’d me nice if this was more like this”, and then within a week it was already updated. A labor of love that deserves to be purchased and played. I’ve put at least 10 hours of active play time into it and still have lots to go. Thanks Matias for another classic!
★★★★★positive5pyroo · 2024-07-09 · v1.5.5
Awesome and addictive
If you told me this game had a 100,000 likes I’d believe it. It’s so fun that I can hardly put it down.
★★★★★positiveJozeph78 · 2024-07-09 · v1.5.5
Sequel to on of my favorite idlers. Needs some optimization late game.
What can I say? This is a sequel to one of my favorite games and it’s perfect in every way. I am getting tons of lag past mid game however making it somewhat hard to play. I’ve toggled all the settings the help performance and it’s still pretty bad on my iPhone 13 Pro. Not enough to take a star. I believe this will be addressed in an update soon.
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingCadeff · 2024-07-08 · v1.5.5
I thought the first one was good….
But this one is a very nice improvement and have enjoyed it far more than the cost. This dev needs a lot more credit.