Magic research is a hybrid between an Idler game and autobattler that manages this quite well. The game has a massive amount of depth an compared to the first game this one is quite a lot better with its quality of life systems. The second game is a lot better about not forcing you to actively interact and lets you set things up and watch them unfold. If you enjoy idler games get this game, but be warned if you want to 100% it, it took me almost 4 months to 100% it.

Pros:
-Much better element/spell system compared to the first game
-the game is full of QoL events that improve existing systems
-a lot more choices in how you build up your wizard
- A lot of events have a story to them
-No enemies break the idler nature unless you are at the limits of a run or its a special boss

Cons:
-The game takes a long time to finish. While rewarding to finally reach the end, the research in particular is really slow even when abusing the retirement feature
-While the start of the game gives you a lot of choice about gear, a lot of the potential build types just disapear and don't exist with later armor and weapons
-The game could have had some more challenges. In particular i was kind of hoping for the no research but more XP from casting that existed in the first game.
-The majority of the events are linear and or very short. Seeing the longer events I do think they could have made some events have alternative methods of completion.
-The creator was borderline impossible to beat. I had to get a 5|5|5 boost and I barely beat them. It was a bit overtuned for possible completion without relying on the worlds feature.

If you Played the first game, you know what you are getting into. It's not simply more of the same, but more of a continuation of what made the first game so enjoyable. It has that familiar feel I was looking for with parts of the tedium of the original trimmed away and in its place there were plenty of new features added to keep me engaged all the way to the end.

Absolutely amazing game, big upgrade from the first Magic Research! If there's anything that annoyed me is the cloud save issues, if you want to play it on multiple devices be prepared with a lot of problems, miss-syncs, having to import/export save files and even then you might get overwritten/not saved on exit. Best to play this on one device, learned it the hard way.
Also selling items is often bugged where the button just doesnt sell and you have to spam it, gets annoying.