Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 12:31 am
Magic School Story – Entertainment Game Review
Magic School Story is a Entertainment/Simulation/Family game from Happy Labs Pte Ltd, first launched in 26th September 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 24+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Magic School Story Stand Out
Ever wanted to build and manage a magic school? Expand your school and upgrade classes. Enrol new students and watch them graduate. Do quests, fight dragons in adventures, go mining, and play match-3 to gather materials! Play with friends to help each other out!
FEATURES
- Build and customise your own dream magical school from the ground up!
- Lots of classes, facilities and decos at your fingertips! Elements, Potions, Broom Flying, Totems, Kage Bunshin, take your pick! Upgrade them to change their looks, stats and effects!
- Enrol new special students and watch them progress from new freshies into powerful professors after graduation!
- Play match-3 to gather materials and upgrade your classes!
- Cast magic on your school and earn loads of coins!
- Go on quests and adventures to earn more resources!
Contact us at [email protected] if you need help!
OTHER GREAT STUFF
- Deco your magic school at your own pace offline
- Backup your game using iCloud so that you won't lose it when you change devices
- Available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, 中文, 日本語, ไทย, 한국어.
- Remember to write a review to support us!
This game is free to play but might include In-App Purchase. Please turn this off in device settings if you do not wish to use this feature.
EULA : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy : https://jeffreychee.github.io/happylabs/PrivacyPolicySubscriptionOnly.html
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Magic School Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th October 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fix bugs in ui
Download & Availability
Magic School Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Magic School Story on App Store
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:
First the spin wheel. It keeps saying there are no ads right now, so we cant get any of the special prizes! Second, the students are a little buggy. THEY TAKE FOREVER TO GET TO SLEEP! Somtimes they dont relise it is bedtime. If you are reading this, this game is awesome. We are just telling about the bugs.
Its a great game, but there havent been any updates for a long time. We dont know if they stopped working on their games or anything, but there isnt any new content now. A thing about the ads in this game is that theres lots of them. We usually just turn off our wifi and data while playing, and when Im about to log off, we turn our data and wifi back on, go to the settings, and then press save to server.
This game is like totally perfect! It has so many cute students and we love the unique professors that come with them!! But we never see anymore events like where did the events go? Thats our only question but other than that we love this game and play it every day.
This is a great game and really addicting… There are goals like getting new students and classes! You can customize your school and expand it. We love seeing all the little characters and their names! Its so cute watching them do everything and theres plenty to do in game. 10/10.
We really like this game its cute and all. But why are there ads popping up every 10 seconds?? Like literally every 10 seconds?? Im trying to fix stuff and we cant cuz the ads keeps popping up.
Love this game super awesome we just have one question. A lot of the students are saying they need a toilet but we have like 6 and they arent in use when they say it either. Do we have to put it closer to them.
We love this game. The interactions between characters is so cute. We would recommend this game to everyone and anyone.
Its good nothing else (maybe to many tutorials) anyway like we said its good Something to keep running in the background and check up on it sometimes so 4 stars not amazing just good and maybe theres to many in-game purchases- but oh well thats the end of this review.
We would give this a five star, bc we played happy mall story and fell in love with these games, the only problem we have and that we hope they fix is that when we take a picture and want to share the app wont let us share at ALL and we want to share and get more coins otherwise great game.
We loved playing this game but theres some kind of problem it doesnt save data please fix this glitch.
We have spent a lot of money on this games we have been trying to get our account back for years we have contacted via every support email possible, and they never respond we just want our account back.
We really like this game but when we joined one day all our progress restarted.Im not sure if we were supposed the save it or something but we do know our progress was deleted.Please tell us: bug or we did something wrong. Thanks for reading.
First of all, the game is so awesomely cute as expected because we are a fan of hotel story and happy mall story. But why do ads constantly appear after every click of game interactions. Thats so annoying.
Can you just open an option to pay to block ads.
Chi game kh vui nhng tht s bc mnh khi vo game chi nhng chi cha c 1 pht li qung co.. Nn khc phc li thi gian qung co v n lm gin on tr chi v khin tm trng kh bc bi v kh chu.
This game is good, but after 20 minute of playing we try to save the account then it just crashed. And when we open the app again, we lost all of our result. We did top up and get the monthly, and it just so frustrating for us to lose our money. We couldnt even get our refund as the money still pending on our account, And when Im back and go and try to play from the start, we keep having a pop up for the ads each time we do something. Its really frustrating. Update: we thought by buying a purchase will get rid of the constant pop up for the ads!! No its not.
Its a nice little game in the genre, but an ad pops up about every 4th or 5th time we click on anything or exit a menu. Its just a 2 second ad that you manually have to close out of, but it really interrupts our flow of thought, as we go into menus often to see whats available and to figure out what to do next. Sometimes they pop up 2 or 3 times in a row and it is very frustrating. This happens even after we bought the starter pack. We are not getting the zen Im seeking in a game, and unfortunately may stop playing just for this reason. As a user who is prone to buying things, we dont think the pennies they gain from ads are a good trade off for the dollars we may have continued to spend.
We played this game for a few days. The concept of running your own magic school is very charming. We enjoy how this is very much like a Kairosoft game mixed with your typical match-three puzzle game. It keeps things from getting boring. However the game comes to a complete stop when you realize how bad the ads are. Of course there are your typical speed up and get more items ads. That we can tolerate. Yet, bafflingly, this game has a unique feature of throw ads in randomly during regular gameplay. It brings things to a complete stop and we have to wait for the ad to completely move across the screen before we can close it and continue working on our magic school. This became so frequent we couldnt perform any actions without being interrupted by an ad. For us, this is a deal breaker and caused us to delete the app from our library. It would be far more enjoyable if the ads were left to the optional viewing material, and not popping up every five seconds between gameplay.
We will absolutely come back and edit this to 5 stars if the ad problem gets fixed. We actually started playing this game a few years ago and loved it, but it eventually fell off our radar. Id love to get back into playing it, but the amount and frequency of the ads is infuriating. This definitely didnt happen when we played before, so please fix whatever update caused this. Even if its a no ads purchase for a dollar or two, Id say its definitely worth it over the insanity of the ads.
Great game and we started the playing. When we left the game to get more coins we came back to start a new game. We want our school back we worked so hard on. But everything else about this game is great.
The first time we played this game was very fun . We were really into it and loved that there was always something to do (when your school is thriving you get to solve puzzles to gather more money and orbs) but when we closed the app and returned, it made us start over. We tried logging in with our email and a code they sent us but it didnt work. We started playing the game again figuring that maybe we had to manually save the game . We were deep in the game again until we clicked save all the way at the bottom of the settings and it told us there was an error . We closed the game because the screen was frozen and once again we were logged out with no way to recover our data we wish that wouldnt happen because we actually really liked the game . We hope this doesnt happen to anyone else :(.
We love this game and its goals we think its amazing but what we hate is that there is an ad immediately after everything we do and we dont mind paying for an ad free version but this game would be perfect if it wasn't for those annoying pop up ads.
We also got to the point where the ads have made the game nearly unplayable – any time we leave the main school screen (building, gathering, adventure, school info, exam pop up notification) and return back to the main screen, we get an ad. It makes us very reluctant to edit our school layout or buy any new decos or upgrades. Unfortunately, the last update for the game was a year ago, so Im not expecting that the developers are going to fix whatever bug is causing these ads. Such a shame, because the game is really cute and relaxing to play otherwise.
Way to many ads could of had more stars but we couldn't enjoy the game cause we didn't want to click anything cause ads pop up every time. But we understand you have to get paid.
Constant pop up ads make the game unplayable.
We have an ad pop up every 5 seconds. We leave one window, ad. We click on something, ad. We exit out of thing we clicked on, ad. We literally cant play this game, way too many ads.
We capture the photo to share it and get more golds, but we dont get the golds even we try to share it many times.
This game resetted our progress when k restarted it.
We loved the style of these games and the functions are alright. There are so many ads when youre outside of the mini game screen that you can barely move the screen for two seconds without getting an ad.
It seems like every two seconds, Im getting ads now when we didnt before. True, the ads dont last long and you can close them as quickly as they pop up but its still annoying. And theres no option to turn them off, not even a pay option, at least, none that we could find. Edited (06-24-2021): The ads happen every time you interact with anything! Collect your coins? Here comes an ad! Edit your layout? Ad! Collect from the resource ours or from the adventure? You guessed it! Ads! Its gotten over the top now. Ive reduced our rating from three to two stars now, its gotten so bad! Edited (06-26-2021): ENOUGH WITH THE ADS!!! Id rate this -5 stars if we could! Every time you tap something, here come the ads! Theyre annoying when youre trying to build, collect or upgrade! Im about ready to uninstall this ad-heavy game! It wasnt like this when we first started playing. What the heck happened? Stop it already! Edited (10-13-2021): Still ad-heavy. Noticed there hasnt been an update in a year. Have they forgotten about this game.
It's very cute, we love the game. But there's literally so. Many. Ads. We counted and an ad came up 3 seconds after another. It's becoming impossible to play. Everytime we counted it was never over 20 seconds. We're thinking about uninstalling the app. Please make less ads. It's ridiculous.
We started playing this game around 1 pm yesterday and when we reopened the app we had to secure our account, log back in and start from the tutorial. Ive already been playing the game for a few hours or more and dont understand why we had to repeat in order to play the game. We will be uninstalling the game if it happens again and wont be playing anymore until the problem is fixed.
Doesnt let us log back into it when we put in our email.
We tried to kick out parry botter.. But kept on coming back….. He never stoped….. We even took away alll the boy rooms.. But he came back….. We taped him a million times….. He came back… We gave up…. Then…. He left on his own! But then…… He came back.
Please help solve this problem we have in the game! The problem is we cant take a picture of our school its not working. Our referral ID is APQG96X please help. We play this game everyday our favorite.
We've been playing Hotel story, Happy mall, Restaurant sth and so far this Magic School is the best one. Since the size of each building is nice enough to see, but not to big compare to those in Happy mall. Characters are very cute, we like this version more than those in Hotel story =))) Also, the combo list is easy to follow and map out, and personally we like this strategy more than using items like in hotel story. So, just one thing, we love this game so much that we spend lots of time planning out our buildings according to the combo list, yet we still find happiness in doing so.
We love it you should really make more free things tho but still LOVE IT.
This is one of the cutest games we've played! It is a slow start on making your mini school, but it gets better once you get it rolling. You can see each character/student doing their mini task throughout the day, whether that'd be taking a bath, eating, working out, going to class, SLEEPING. Only downside is that it does get repetitive and we have already finished all of the levels for the game in the app. We only play it over to get coins quickly. You can visit other players world's, but we wish it was more interactive.
Hey guys we love this game and Im on everyday ! Add us APQVFS9.
We like it and all but buying new students is way to expensive.
Our code: APQL6YB add us So we downloaded the game about a year ago, got kinda far, but deleted it after a few months of playing because it was really hard to make enough money in order to progress through the game. We redownloaded it a few days ago and restarted from the beginning, but money is still kind of an issue, we can make around $1,000 using all 5 hearts while using the mini game feature, and can usually make some more using the money spell, but the money gets used up fast, and once you pass into the higher levels of the mini game its harder to complete the goal and actually make money, and the reward stays the same(about $150 per win, but you can get around $300 if you have extra moves). Our only other complaint about the game is when you start the mini matching game the voice that says ready go! Is kind of annoying after awhile, and if you could make an option to turn it off we think would be helpful, because the background music is really nice. Other than those 2 things the games good, passes time, and is pretty fun, not to mention the event items and offline mode.
So dev when we were playing when we had a toilet and food one of our students left because there was no toilet Im kinda confused but the game is amazing Im addicted.
Its a cute game, and very fun. However, there are not many levels and we reached the end in just a few days. Our only option now is to just replay old levels, which is pretty boring. You also progress rather slow when building the school.
We love this game. We like the look of it a lot. We have a problem though. We cant click on the exclamation marks above the students head anymore :( we saw that someone else had the problem and we would like to have it fixed as soon as possible so we can keep on playing the game.
Every time we want to start a new game, it says failed to get an ID / failed to connect, even though it has access to WLAN&Phone internet and the internet is working. Same happened with Hotel Story, and it failed to retrieve our old account (+4 yrs) from Facebook. :( Please fix it.
We love this more than happy mall story!!! Please keep updating with more expansions and shops and things!! Im obsessed!! ID: APZMTOL.
We love this game! Its one of the few games we told our cousin about. The characters are so adorable and we love how some of them can become professors. We cant wait for more stuff and future updates Future Stuff we would love to have – Basement floors – 3rd opinion on portals – more cool stuff.
Love how the little characters move and talk and all the changes of days and all, adorable! The only problem is that we can no longer click the entrance to expand, nor can we click on the ! Above the students head. Is this a glitch or is it limited to a certain level, student number,etc? Hope this gets fixed soon.
Its really fun, but, its hard to click.
Love love this game! We could watch the little characters run around for hours. Our only suggestion is could you please create more levels for the puzzle section.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10.0.8
- Size: 29.88 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, ID, JA, KO, ZH, TH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Happy Labs Pte Ltd
Last updated: 30th October 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Happy Labs Pte Ltd