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Rift Wizard

You play as an amnesiac wizard rebuilding his spellbook while travelling through hostile realms to confront his rival. The journey spans 25 levels filled with procedurally generated challenges. Each level is a tactical, turn-based combat encounter. Study enemy threats, position yourself, and use your magic to clear the battlefield before moving on; choices between portals can let you weigh different enemies and rewards. Earn points as you progress and spend them on spells, upgrades, and passive skills. With a large selection of abilities and interactions to explore, your choices shape each run’s build. Permadeath makes mistakes costly, and a failed run means starting over.

As an amnesiac wizard, build a spellbook and solve turn-based battles across 25 shifting realms on a permadeath quest to face a rival.

Released 01 Sep 2021

92%positive of
1.1k player reviews

$14.99

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Build Spell Combos

Choose Your Next Portal

Plan Turn-Based Battles

Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.

Developed by Dylan White · Published by Dylan White

rift wizard - full playthrough 01: a bag of dark tricks (victory)

Rift Wizard: I am ADDICTED to this AMAZING GAME! ABSOLUTE WIZ BIZ HAPPENINS

Rift wizard | First Look (Rogue-like)

Players Praise Most

Spell Build Variety
Strategic Combat Choices
Rewarding Challenge
Replayable Runs

Common Player Critiques

Brutal Run Difficulty
Unclear Spell Details
Hard-to-Read Maps
Clunky Controls

92%

positive of 1.1k player reviews

From the Devs

Rift Wizard is a tough as nails retro fantasy roguelike emphasizing combat and character building.

You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must rebuild his spellbook and slay his rival.

The game consists of 25 randomly generated levels, each filled with procedurally generated challenges that will test your creativity and strategic thinking abilities.

Rift Wizard Features:

Open ended character advancement with deep synergies and spell interactions
Huge library of spells and passive skills to build from
Low randomness, high player agency
Diverse and varied monster design
High difficulty, permadeath, limited resources
Crisp 1990s retro RPG aesthetics

Rift Wizard is inspired by classics such as Nethack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue, and Tales of Maj'Eyal, but pushes the genre in a more strategic, combat focused direction. In some ways it is closer to a board game than an RPG. There isn't much plot or exploration in Rift Wizard- just epic wizard battles and deep buildcraft from start to finish.

I'm creating Rift Wizard because I want to push the boundaries of the genre. I want to build a deep and challenging roguelike worth exploring for a thousand hours or more. A game with hundreds of potential strategies to try. A game where each run is a novel and exciting intellectual challenge. A game that inspires the player to be crafty, creative, and brilliant.

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows
Achievements	21
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) 14 — Violência fantasiosa Violência Medo IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Kekerasan Horor Steam (Germany) 16 — Drastische Gewalt
Controller required	No