MAGIC MAN LABS
Indie game dev

Small studio.
Big spells.

Clever games, with a little magic.

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The Magic Man Labs cat, a tuxedo cat holding a glowing star wand

Now conjuring

Deduxion

In development
The six suspects aboard a night train: a bearded conductor in a wood-panelled corridor, a lady in pearls by a lamp, a guard smoking by the cargo door, a young woman with old books, a grey-haired gentleman checking his pocket watch, and a woman in a trench coat writing in a notebook by a snowy window

Deduxion is a detective game where you interrogate every witness in your own words, and each one answers in character: lying, dodging and slipping up. Search the scene, pin your evidence in the notebook, and name the killer when you're sure. Then try the case of the week against your friends.

  • AI murder mystery
  • Android · Google Play
  • Free to play
Get it on Google Play
  • A glowing stem cell on a ledge of bone, looking out over a vast pink organ landscape and a river of red blood cells
    In development

    Progenitor

    You are the immune system: team up with up to nine friends as stem cells inside a living human, and keep your host alive while the infection evolves against you.

  • The Gilded Flagon's timber-framed common room: a horned bard, an elf, an old monk, a young girl, a dashing rogue and the barkeep gathered by a fireplace holding a golden stone
    In development

    The Last Call at the Gilded Flagon

    A cozy fantasy mystery point-and-click: the tavern's Hearthstone has vanished, and you have until dawn to find the thief.

  • A Quorum match: a cyan nanite swarm and a violet rival swarm on either side of a field of glowing golden hexagonal energy
    In development

    Quorum

    Two rival nanite swarms, one energy-rich sector, and two and a half minutes on the clock. Outsmart the other operator and make your swarm the one that claims the ground.

  • Sunbeams falling through a misty wood between an old oak and a silver birch
    Beta testing

    Canopy

    A hex-grid logic puzzle about shade: plant one tree in every grove, keep their crowns apart, and leave no patch of forest floor in the sun.

Close-up of the Magic Man Labs cat

About the lab

Who is the Magic Man?

Magic Man Labs is an independent game studio in Minnesota, named in honor of Magic Man, a cat, who loved nothing more than curling up to watch us play video games. Every game we make is one we hope Magic Man would have stayed up to watch.

We make games about figuring things out. In Deduxion and The Last Call at the Gilded Flagon you hunt for the slip in someone's story and name the culprit. Canopy is a logic puzzle with exactly one answer, and Progenitor and Quorum take their rules from real biology, from the immune system to the way a swarm decides together.

Whatever the genre, we want rules you can learn in a minute, puzzles that play fair, and a little magic in the moment it all clicks.

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