Idle Superpowers vs Magic Research
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Superpowers
Embark on a roguelike idle RPG adventure as a superhero with a vast array of unlockable, combinable superpowers. Experience unique runs with procedurally generated items and enemies, and overcome challenges that demand diverse playstyles.
- Unlock 99+ superpowers
- Combine superpowers for synergies
- Random power generation
- Procedural items and enemies
- Unlockable upgrades
- Challenging gameplay
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Idle Superpowers is a roguelike idle rpg where you are a superhero who can get multiple superpowers that are combinable and synergize with each other! - 99+ superpowers to unlock - random generation of powers ensures that each run plays different - combine superpowers to create overpowered synergies - procedural generated items and enemies - challenges to unlock new upgrades, which require different playstyles
Magic Research
Lead a new magic institution to discover the secrets of magic and achieve fame. Research spells, build your campus, manage staff, and uncover hidden storylines to win the Tournament of Magic. Enjoy a complete game experience with no ads.
- Cast over 100 spells
- Research magic in various schools
- Build and manage campus
- Manage researchers and apprentices
- Discover hidden features and storylines
- Retirement bonuses for faster progress
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In Magic Research, you are the headmaster of a newly-created institution of Magic with one goal: to learn as much as possible about this power and get enough fame to be able to compete, and win, the prestigious competition of schools: the Tournament of Magic. But what will you discover along the way? * Cast over a hundred different spells with various effects * Research magic in various magical schools to discover new, surprising ways to use this power * Accumulate resources and build the school campus * Manage a team of researchers and apprentices to lead your school to fame * Discover tons of hidden new features - when will you unlock the next one? * Find over eight dozen secret storylines with permanent, game-altering effects * Restart the game and make faster progress each time with retirement bonuses * Optimized both for iPhone and iPad * No ads! This is the full, complete game. You can transfer save data from the demo by using the Export / Import Save feature available in both the demo and in the full game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Idle Superpowers at Free against Magic Research's $3.99. Idle Superpowers also leads on ratings volume (830 vs 188). Magic Research's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Idle Superpowers is free to download; Magic Research costs $3.99 up front. Idle Superpowers sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Magic Research asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Idle Superpowers against 4.7 for Magic Research. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 830 and 188 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Idle Superpowers's written reviews are positive against 95% of Magic Research's.
Idle Superpowers ships an update every 2 months, Magic Research every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Superpowers | Magic Research |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (830 ratings) — better | 4.7 (188 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.7% of reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 830 — better | 188 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #93 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Lutz Schoenfelder | Matias Ezequiel Colotto |
Customer experience
Idle Superpowers
Magic Research
User reviews
Idle Superpowers
From 830 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Pretty good
- 👍 LOVE THIS!
- 👍 Never thought I'd be this invested
- 👍 Best Idle Game to Date
- 👍 my favorite mobile game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unskippable overlong ads
- 🐛 Weirdly fun, but very limited
- 🐛 Ads?
- 🐛 Used to be fun
- 🐛 Inventory management is bad
Magic Research
From 188 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great idle/incremental game
- 💡 Deep and complex systems
- 🚀 Well-paced progression
- 💰 Worth the price
- ✨ No ads or microtransactions
Room to improve
- 🐛 UI layout issues
- 🐌 Can be grindy
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🐛 Text running off page/scrolling issues
- 🐛 Wood resource bug
Bugs and requests
Idle Superpowers
Reported bugs
5 issues- Fix new bug please
- Money UI getting pixelated
- Latest update (notifications) is causing crashes
- Ok, so idk what I did but my game now crashes after about a minute of me being the game
- Pretty fun, but extreme flickering bar on bottom of 12 pro max prevents playing for extended amounts of time
Requested features
6 requests- Beta
- Give it a real chance
- Needs an update
- Updates
- An amazing game with no random adds. Literally No random Adds!
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- It can be improved
Magic Research
Reported bugs
8 issues- On new iPhones, switching away and back causes UI unresponsiveness
- Text running off the page, preventing interaction with buttons
- Wood resource counting backwards
- Becoming stunned for a full minute, unable to act
- Bosses running away from fights
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- Exploration difficulty jump
- UI layout issues on iPad Pro (long scrolling panels, cut-off inventory views, difficult spell favorite scrolling, useless event panel)
- Text pages not scrolling, making discoveries unreadable
Requested features
12 requests- Add background music
- Add Chinese language support
- Make monsters pixelated
- Adjustable times for apprentice auto-casting
- Display monstium collection counter during exploration
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- Allow apprentices to auto-craft potions
- Make the game accessible to the blind
- Add a way to start further into dungeons
- Automate crafting
- Improve quality of crafted items (armor, weapons)
- Add a 'Magic Smithing' school
- Allow players to avoid or cure silence effects
In-app purchases
Idle Superpowers
- 500 Gems$3.99
- No Ads$8.99
- Starter Pack$8.99
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- 1000 Gems + 100 Free$8.99
- 2000 Gems + 250 Free$17.99
- Hero Pack$35.99
- Superhero Pack$44.99
- 5000 Gems + 1500 Free$44.99
- 10K Gems + 5K Free!$89.99
Magic Research
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Idle Superpowers free?
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