Magical Diary: Horse Hall on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a visual novel, dating sim and female protagonist game developed and published by Hanako Games.
Released on May 31st 2012 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 1,013 reviews of which 913 were positive and 100 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.17€ on Steam with a 65% discount.

The Steam community has classified Magical Diary: Horse Hall into these genres:

Visual Novel Dating Sim Female Protagonist Anime RPG Indie Fantasy Magic Adventure Otome Romance Character Customization Story Rich Singleplayer Choices Matter LGBTQ+ Simulation Dungeon Crawler Puzzle Turn-Based

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *:Windows XP
Processor:1GHz
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:DirectX compatible card
Hard Drive:150 MB HD space

MacOS

OS:10.4
Processor:1 GHz
Memory:512 MB RAM
Hard Drive:150 MB HD space

Linux

Processor:1 GHz
Memory:512 MB RAM
Hard Drive:150 MB HD space
Note: 32-bit compatibility libraries required on AMD64 and x86-64

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a visual novel with RPG elements where you play as a new student at a magic school. You get to choose your character's name and appearance, then play through your character's freshman year and decide which skills and relationships to develop. You decide your character's schedule for the week, choosing either classes or other activities to raise your magic skill, smarts, strength, or decrease your stress. Your magic skills allow you to unlock spells, your strength and smarts determine your mana pool and health, and your stress affects your chances for success in class. Between classes, you'll experience different events and make choices that affect the way your story proceeds. Several times during the game, you'll have to take an exam, where you'll go to a dungeon and use your abilities to escape. You won't be given any information on what to do for the dungeons beforehand, so the first time around there's a chance you'll fail some of them, either by not knowing useful spells or by wasting mana or running out of health. You only get some demerits for failing an exam, so it isn't a big deal if you aren't able to pass all of them at first. There are multiple ways to solve each dungeon, so you aren't locked in to studying one particular set of spells if you want to pass all of them. It was fun figuring out different ways to get through each dungeon, although none of the puzzles were very difficult to figure out. There are six different character routes you can get during the game, five major and one minor. Three of them are pretty easy to get, you just have to make a point of talking to the character and being nice to them, but the other three are more finicky and require a more specific set of conditions. Most of the routes either have romantic or platonic variations, although they aren't hugely different either way. I generally liked all of the routes, although there were definitely some I liked more than others. To see all the story options in the game, you have to play through it multiple times. I enjoyed playing through all the routes and making different choices each time. It never felt too repetitive, as you can skip through all the dialogue you've seen before, and there were new things to discover even after multiple playthroughs. For example, you can get special conversations by taking particular classes on certain days. Going for all of the achievements is a pretty good way to get most of the major endings, and it was fun trying to figure out how to get some of the more difficult ones. The characters and the world they lived in were very interesting to get to know. Certain aspects of the school and a couple of the characters seemed to be taking a bit of inspiration from Harry Potter, but the world and the story were pretty different and unique. The main characters were multifaceted and it was fun getting to know the different sides of their personalities. I did feel like there were a few story threads related to some of the side characters that were introduced but not fully developed or that didn't end in a satisfying way. Overall, Magical Diary: Horse Hall is a cute visual novel/RPG. I enjoyed the story and characters, and it was fun playing through it to get all the details. I wish some of the side characters had been more fleshed out here, but some of them did end up getting more details in the sequel. 9/10

Dec. 2024

i honestly grabbed this on a whim because steam made me laugh so hard i almost cried - it suggested that this game is somehow similar to skyrim. thanks for the giggles steam, you'll always be the best to me. Tl;Dr: local degenerate plays a magical high school game because reminiscing on previous high school experiences just wasn't enough pain stress to wake me up in the morning.

June 2024

On my first play through I sold my soul, got my roommates bra stolen, ran for student body president, and got temp. blinded by ghosts/spirits? 10/10 would recommend.

April 2024

The story is intriguing, but some aspects could be more developed, some characters could be more involved and have a deeper history. I love the multiple endings and ways of getting achievements. All in all, I would recommend as a simple, fun VN to pass the time.

April 2024

while it was by no means my first visual novel, it was near and dear to my heart ever since i first played it years and years ago revisiting it and seeing all the stuff i missed out on back then was fun

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