Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 04:18 am
Magikiras – Books Game Review
Magikiras is a Books/Roleplaying/Adventure game from Hosted Games LLC, first launched in 10th March 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 46+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Magikiras Stand Out
Don powered armor as you take on terrorists and eldritch aliens in the not too distant future! Modify your armor to suit your needs and stand tall against your foes.
"Magikiras" is a 1,100,000-word interactive novel by Gabriel Chia, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
• A 1,100,000-word story that takes place in a near future where magic and technology exists side by side.
• Choose your team and your enemy for different sides of the same story.
• Play as a normal soldier or one with magic at their command.
• Modify your powered armor to better suit your needs and preference.
This Books game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Magikiras is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes. If you enjoy "Magikiras", please leave us a written review. It really helps!
Download & Availability
Magikiras is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game/story is horrible and the worst we have played. We love these types of games. One of the reasons is you can never fail them, because it is about the story and the consequences of your actions. So even if your character dies we dont consider it a fail. This game changed all of that. If you dont make the right choices then the game will abruptly end, with a message from the author saying you did not make the right choices to continue the story. We have never seen this before in a choose your own adventure game. Our issue is not that the game ended early, that would be fine if the ending was a story-based ending and not a message from the author about how we messed up and how proud of their own work they are. We wanted a story ending, even a bad one is better than a 4th wall breaking game try again from the beginning. This is like the Mass Effect trilogy, fun to play but man is that ending terrible.
We love this game, we enjoyed it a hell of a lot and man being a magic user makes it so much harder Hahahah. We would so love to have a sequel to this game. While we enjoyed every moment the ending was a bit boring to be honest. But still 5/5 for this game —spoiler alert— we really would like a squeal and to see more of Morgan. We chose to romance her and we really want to see more of her. Like can we get her back? Will we finally put her out of her misery? Mainly we want to see more of her showing her affectionate side from time to time until finally a cute, sweet, tear jerker death or to have her back on our side as herself again. Thank you so much for this story.
It was an amazing story to be a part of.
While we loved the game and enjoy how long it is, we took a look at our achievements and saw that we had none of them. We've played this to completion at least ten times and haven't even come close to getting any of them! Even knowing what they are didn't help and we are not to keen on looking it up. Even as we write this we have no idea as to even get one.
This game was very fun and challenging. Character development for npc's and the player is fantastic, and the story is extremely addicting. However, there are several grammar issues. But, if you are patient, this game is sure to be hard to put down.
Just as the title says awesome game if you can ignore the typos.
One of the most fleshed out Choice of Games we've ever had the pleasure of playing.
We love this! A great and long story that has us hooked.
Great story, we honestly loved every second of it. We were personally deeply immersed in the story and couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. We can't wait to see what story this author makes next.
Great long story you can really get into. Their is a lot of diversity in the play throughs. One of our favorite games.
This would get 5 stars, but the grammar and spelling issues pulled us out a couple times, we'd suggest getting someone to edit for you.
We love the story around the game as well as most other choice games, but there are grievances we have. One problem we have is that we would like to see an option to restart from the beginning of a chapter instead of having to restart the entire game after messing up a choice we didnt enjoy. The second issue is that when we try and type the locations into the fill in the blank slot it wont work even though Im absolutely positive Im using the right locations. If these were added/fixed then this would be 5 stars.
Overall the writing isn't too great, of course we appreciate the effort and time put into this seeing as long as it is, we just can't keep reading with the characters who act like kids. Seriously no adult would act the way they do, especially not in the military. We've grown up around military people and this reading feels immature.
We still havnt finished the game bcuz of some error its says line 530 no selectable options. Please fix it.
Honestly, we're conflicted. We suppose we'll start with the good. It was quite a long story, well written (for the most part, but we'll get onto that later), and the characters had quite a lot of depth. Now onto the bad. Good god the grammatical errors. It was hilarious at first, but then it became a bit grating. The spelling was also off at times. While the characters had depth, they ended up falling completely flat. And let's not forget the near pointless stats. We say "near" because they only really affected a select few choices. And if you use magic, you can bypass most of them with ease. You can honestly tell that the author did too much and wanted a neat little bow to wrap it up in. Heck, they even admitted that they wanted it to be over and done with so they could move on to another project. However, that completely backfired. The ending, if you can even call it that, was a rather terrible cliffhanger that will never be resolved. According to the author anyways. Talk about anticlimactic… It severely disappointed us as, up until that point, we put aside all of the negative feelings we felt because the story drew us in THAT much. We're not going to lie, we had a blast! But at the same time… We can't support someone just throwing away something with that much potential. It's a real shame to see such a fantastic universe go right down the drain… And hey, author, if you bother reading these things please reconsider going back to the Magikiras universe… Please. You can do so much better than that. The ending was more like a slap in the face than a resolution. Actually, we take that back. It WAS a slap in the face. You may think that it was fine and dandy, but let us tell you something: you're wrong. You have a lot of skill, and your potential is virtually limitless! But you copped out and wrote out an ending that is, quite frankly, utter BS. You made something so great… And then you took a big dump all over it… Please. Please. Please…. Bring it back. We know you would make a lot of people happy if you did. And if you can pump out a story interesting as this, then you can sure as heck make a sequel. Though we gave it a three star rating, try it out for yourself. Honestly, buy it. If you can get past the poor grammar and spelling errors, you'll really enjoy the story. Up until the end anyways… But even then, it's up to you. All in all, a fun and relatively well written game that ends up falling flat on its face… Wasting a chance at glory.
We were really enjoying this story and we think we made it to the end, only to get a page that said, "Sorry, this is it and we don't plan on making more of this story." we were mostly upset that it left on a colossal cliffhanger.
Usually very into these games, but this one is very boring with long drawn out narrating without much dialogue, or important plot points. And it ends very suddenly and stupidly. We want our money back. Don't buy this game.
So let's get the good things out of the way, the game is long, fair amount of choice AND a major branching path. And now on to the bad. Writing can be wonky at times, lot of the stats feel pointless, and the ending is an abomination. It feels like the the author meant for it to go on for a bit longer but then they just end it on one of the worst cliffhangers we have ever encountered, and then the author makes a statement saying they won't ever be coming back to this setting. That ending makes it that we can not in good faith recommend this game. Go check out Sabers of Infinity, Way Walkers, The Lost Heir or any other number of CYOA games instead.
We have played many games of this type and we have to say this game is terrible. First the grammar issues which are funny in the beginning but get annoying really quick when you have to reread a paragraph to understand what they are saying. Second and by far worse getting to a point in the game that FORCES you to start over from the beginning if you didnt do things a certain way a great way to waste hours of our time. Third how often you have to rely on magic to get through encounters as your stats are so low you fall that pretty much everything. There are many better games like this out there save your money.
Will not let us buy full game, we can buy any of the other choice of games, but this one won't let us buy. We love all of the games we've played pretty much all of them, started when choice of Dragon first came out. We think this one would be the best but we can't tell since it won't let us purchase it.
We love these types of games but this one was just awful. Spoiler, you can't even finish it without meeting ridiculous standards. We paid good money for a game we couldn't finish! We want a refund. Plus you're always hurt and about to die. Just terrible.
As excited as we usually am by these, we happened to want to do something this time that we've never done before: play our text-only-no-media game with some gentle classical music playing in the background. Reasonable? Apparently not. Launching or task-switching to the game stops the music player. Idiotic! If ingame audio conflicted with the music player, got it: ingame wins if we're choosing to play the game. But since there is no ingame audio…. A frustrating experience. We've no idea whether other Choice of Games products do the same, but it's kind of a no-brainier to not interfere with the music app. Not what we want in a game, sorry.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.8
- Size: 31.88 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Hosted Games LLC
Last updated: 28th June 2023 | Genre: Books, Roleplaying | Developer: Hosted Games LLC