=What is it?=
Firstly, this is not a Wizardry game of old, or even similar to one of the new installments. This is a *mobage*, a Japanese-style mobile game that has been ported to Steam without the microtransaction nonsense. As long as you know what you should expect, you will enjoy yourself.

Wizrogue is in a subgenre of mobile games which I like to call a 'monster battler', a game that derives its mechanics from similar games like Puzzle and Dragons, DBZ Dokkan Battle, Summoner's War, or even Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. Note that this game *does* require an online connection to play at time of writing this review.

=How do I play?=
The way it works is thus: You're given a starter party of some low-ranking (read: low max-level) heroes, you select a dungeon from a list, and you progress in rogue-lite fashion towards the exit, stabbing monsties and collecting treasure along the way. You will often find coffins which contain other heroes, or are rewarded on a per-dungeon basis with Adventurer Tickets which allow you to roll for new heroes. All heroes have a ranking associated with them, and naturally uncommon or rare have higher stats, higher max levels, and better beginning equipment than common ones.

Your characters will level up based on enemies defeated after completing dungeons, which consist of a randomization of 3-6 floors of half a dozen rooms per floor, maybe, which include treasure and traps and the like, and whose objective is usually either get to the bottom or kill the boss on the last floor. You'll notice that you'll accrue a small army, however, with a large batch of useless characters. These characters are 'fed' to other characters (through training) which will give them experience and help them level up faster.

The core gameplay is essentially similar to the Japanese console-style roguelikes like the Fushigi Dungeon series. You'll recognize many similar mechanics, like attacking mid-air in order to reveal a trap tile on the space in front of you, or zooming through hallways to get to the next room. There is one caveat: your party has a collective HW (Holy Water) guage which depletes with every action you take. Luckily, HW recovery items are plentiful, and while it does act as a time limit, it doesn't necessarily force you to find the exit before clearing a room of monsters or search the floor for treasure.

Despite this, the gameplay has a distinctive Wizardry flavor. The base classes and races are all there, the class change system is present, as is the trapped treasure chest mechanic and the massive amount of pain dished out by certain enemies. The first few dungeons will leave you wishing it was more difficult, but the challenge ramps up fairly quickly. You'll find yourself digging around in the town screen for quite a while in between dungeons training your team, reorganizing, and micro-managing equipment, trying to find the right balance.

=Should I bother?=
Depends. Do you want a wholly immersive, first-person RPG with obtuse puzzles and a high challenge factor where you custom-make a party of six? In this case, no. In contrast, do you want a somewhat casual social dungeon crawler that rewards you for coming back day by day with a distinct Wizardry vibe? Or maybe you just want a Puzzle & Dragons-like game without the freemium nonsense and a bit more depth to the gameplay? In these cases, yes.

Pros:
+Solid mechanics
+Fast-paced, turn-based gameplay remniscent (but not identical to) the old Wizardries
+Board game graphical style
+Fun, easy to pick up and put down for quick play sessions
+Sweet title theme music

Cons:
-Obvious mobile port
-Getting used to this alternative model of gameplay may cause old-school Wizardry fans discomfort
-No overarching plot to speak of (though one faintly exists)

I give it a hard Yes to recommend, but be sure you know what you're buying first!
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Tak jak mamy jRPG mamy też jRoguelike. I ta gra jest właśnie typowym japońskim rogalem nastawionym na grind, gdzie taktyka walki czy zarządzanie zasobami są niezauważalne. Pomimo posiadania drużyny czułem się jakbym grał pojedyńczą postacią z wieloma skillami, a to przez to, że każda czynność zabiera tutaj jedną turę. Albo zaatakujemy przednim szeregiem albo wyleczymy postać albo strzelimy z łuku albo ciśniemy fireballem. Walka z bossami sprowadza się do szybkiego ataku przednim szeregiem, bo naprawdę szkoda tury na leczenie kogolwiek czy draśnięcie atakiem dystansowym.
Ok, ogólnie to nie przeszkadzałby mi tak bardzo grind gdyby w grze było choć trochę urozmaicenia. Tutaj każdy loch wygląda identycznie, kilka pomieszczeń połączonych korytarzykiem. Nie postarano się nawet o urozmaicenie grafiki, większą ilość tekstur czy zmianę ich kolorów, pod tym względem nawet WIzardry 5 wypada lepiej. Cały loot z lochu zazwyczaj najlepiej od razu sprzedać, bo jest bezużyteczny, lepszy ekwipunek jest dostępny u vendora, a za kasę można kupić chociażby exp.
Warto też nadmienić, że gra wygląda jak port gry f2p (2 rodzaje waluty, zwykłe złoto i kryształy). Być może w Japonii gra jest za free z możliwością redukcji grindu za kasę. Mikropłatności na szczęście nie ma, ale szczerze ta gra jest warta 20% obecnej ceny. Jeśli ktoś chciałby pograć w rogalika, który oferuje dużo więcej, urozmaicone lochy, przydatny loot i namiastkę drużyny niech lepiej sięgnie po Rogue Wizards.

Pokrótce omówię wam grę, ponieważ grałem w wersję beta 17 godzin( a to dopiero wierzchołek góry lodowej, bo można tu grać w nieskończoność i co najlepsze wciąga!).
Jeśli ktoś nie lubi gier rpg to najlepiej niech nie czyta dalej, bo to nie jego klimaty ;)
Kto umie podstawy angielskiego śmiało sobie poradzi bez polskiej wersji- pare razy tłumacz google i wszystko się zakuma w ciągu niecałej godziny.
W grze występują punkty ruchu(zielony pasek u góry) jak w wielu grach turowych(Heroes), które akurat można uzupełniać w czasie spacerów w labiryncie zdobytymi bądź kupionymi fiolkami HW.
Postaci jest kilka typów- te najgorsze(C) są tylko do poziomu 15. Najlepsze jakie zdobyłem(R-żółta podstawa u postaci) mają możliwość rozwoju do 45levela, ale wszystko wygląda na to że są jeszcze wyższe klasy. Bardzo ciężko jest takie lepsze postaci zdobyć(wymaga to wielu godzin/dni(sic!) grania.
Wiadomo dodatkowe umiejętności, punkty życia, szczególne umiejetnosci i czary dla kazdej klasy postaci..typowe rpg.
Przedmioty typu miecze, tarcze, maczugi itp mają różne ceny. Tych lepszych(chyba) nie mozna kupic w sklepie tylko trzeba zdobyć.
Fiolki,zwoje itp-standardowo w każdym rpg
można kupić zdobyć coś jakby "kowadełka" które w sali treningowej(super sprawa dla nowo zdobytych postaci) można użyć w celu nabycia EXP.
Gra w większości ma 60klatek na sek albo i wiecej co jest bardzo wysokim poziomem.
Co do grywalności- jest na bardzo wysokim poziomie, poprostu gra wciąga i czesto nie idzie spać myśląc jakby co i jak zdobyć(tego typu myślenie zdarzało mi się tylko na zdecydowanie dobrych topowych grach rpg)
Ponieważ grywalność jest bardzo dobra a w grze dotychczas nie zauważyłem żadnych błędów to gra może znaleźć naprawdę wielu wielbicieli czekających na kolejne wydania.
ZDECYDOWANIE POLECAM!!

Gra na pewno nie dla każdego, ale jak ktoś lubi tego typu poważne turowe dungeon crawlery, to się nie zawiedzie.

This is my first Rogue-like game and I like it :)

This is your dime a dozen(except its 12 bucks) collect / upgrade monsters / heroes mobile "game". Microtransactions have been removed but from what i was able to see in 2h you have to excessivly grind for WJ (the premium currency in this one) instead. You are also being punished heavily for failing so you end up grinding low level dungeons over and over without a challenge to levelup your extremely generic roster of heroes. To top it off the UI is typical mobile and in "town" you play menu manager sim while also fighting the fremium model type limitations on bag size, roster size etc.

Not recommended unless 90% discounted. (and even then very questionable)

P.S: This has nothing to do with classic Wizardry titles like 6-8 which i have played for hundreds of hours.

Fajna gra :) Polecam

I have played this game on the PC for about 5 hours now, and I really want to like this game. I like Rogue style games and was addicted to Wizardry in the day. It is a compelling premise to combine these worlds.

Likes: I like th character development, and the ability to spec out your characters with different gear and classes. I do not even mind that you have to "eat" lower level characters to level up your more powerful ones. The use of animated miniatures is pretty cool as well.

Dislikes: I am always WJ currency poor in the game, and the ability to unluck the most powerful characters is highly dependent upon the WJ currency. It feels like they ported the game from an in-game purchase model where the intentional shortage is intended to motivate players to purchase more currency with real money, except there are no in-game purchases anymore (which I love) and they did not change the trickle with which you make more WJ.

The game is buggy as hell. Somewhat randomly certain characters when you Fortify them (level them up) or change their class get stuck on the animation screeen in which the game either gives you no way off the screen or the botton you are intended to push does nothing. I have had to CTRL-ALT-DEL many, many times to get out of the screeen and thus, had to restart the game each time. Interestingly, the game itself is apparently still running fine, you just cannot get out of that screen.

Finally, I do not like that the backrow characters seemingly do nothing unless you specifically get one of them to use a particular ability (like case a spell or shoot a bow). They do not seem to involve themselves in any obvious way in the head-to-head encoutners. The front rowers all swing, do apparent damage and take damage, the backrowers do nothing even when you have ranged or far-reaching weapons equiped. Additionally, you cannot intentionally target particular characters in the opponent party, particularly the characters int he backrow. Thus, you regularly clean out the front row, only to have their backrow get an automatic attack on you every time. Why can't my archers or mages attack their backrow characters while my fighters attack their front?

Thus, as much as like the compelling idea, the execution of the game seems like they missed some really obvious features that would seem to be obvious in a party-based game of this nature. Perhaps with a patch they can fix these things, but at the moment the game quickly becomes so frustrating it makes me want to stop even though it is a game I would easily play a lot with these minor fixes.

Other then the name starting with "wiz" and the logo looking like the classic "wizardry" logo it has nothing to do with Wizardry.

Spells are randomly given at level up. My good priest started with create wounds while a random priest I found started with heal wounds and later learned create wounds within a level.

It appears to run off classic D&D rules in which a lower AC is better then a higher one. It also runs off of a limited number of spells per dungeon trip by level like spells per day. The lower AC might confuse some players as its not mentioned anywhere in game that I saw and limited spells by level instead of a mana pool creates a huge disadvantage to players. In the almost 2 hours that I played the game I was finally seeing more then just click attack enemies, I was seeing enemies with spells and abilities. They can attack the entire party in one go. Spells per trip limits your healing of the group, at least until you get something that can heal the party. Again spells are randomized on level up.Also there are rogue monsters that get multple actions, such as moving and attacking or attacking twice in the same turn. The party does not get that option.

If you die you age up unless you spend WZ, the in game currency, to prevent that. WZ is aquaired through quests, acheivments, and killing creatures.

There are Red, blue, and yellow dots on the player portraits and around their base that the game does not tell you what they do. I have yet to figure it out myself.

The over all gameplay is click to move and click to attack, buy limited gear in town, and run quests. Most of the quests I have seen are get to the bottom floor.

While moving through the dungeon enemies respawn up to either a set number of times or until you have explored the full dungeon. Again the game does not say which. While moving you use up HW, Holy Water, that protects your stamina. Should your HW run out you take 1 point of damage per step. The game is "kind" enough to randomly place two items to restore your HW on the floor you start on. The items can resture 1/4, half, or all of it. Again it is random as to which ones you get. You start with 9000 HW upon entering the dungeon but you lose about 12 each step. Why 12? I dont know. Two for every member of the party? Why not simplify it to one drop per party member and then cut the bar in half?

Lastly, the achievments alone should give you an indiciation on just how much of a grind the game is.

I wouldnt recomend this game. Its just trying to sell you on the name alone.

I was quite suspicios towards this game - for not few months I have just "walked by".
I knew Wizardry 7, 8, but I also knew that the game frenchise changed a bit when it moved to Japan.
Hence my scepticism.

I installed, started the game. I liked what I saw, my my scepticism stayed firm.
Tutorial dungeon - pretty confusing for me (expectations clash with real game)

I finished 3 tutorial dungeons and started to play with the starting party.
Ok, no hero/party creation (in the fashion I am used to - I am used to select class, race and then distribute stat and skill points)
Wizardrogue generates the heroes in pretty fully-automated way, their equipment and max level depends on the overall quality mark (C, UQ, R, SR, ... C=worst, SR=best)
I was also shocked that you can replace weapons + shields only (not armor and there is nothing else, no rings, no hats, helmets...nothing)
Funny fact, when you own one sword for too long, you are same or even more eficient with it than with new, but much more expensive sword (still it is worth replacing them, as you can grow proficient with the new one too, but with higher end-results)

So far all good, nearly everything is new, but I like it. There is perma-death, but with some luck you can avoid it fully (normally when your party is killed, it returns back to city... for free, ressurection is more tricky/expensive)

New is not bad, I start loving it.
Wizrogue brings back good old dungeon hype (plan each step and pray that your decision is really wise)
Damage spells, healing spells, buff/debuff spells - all combined can make your party super efficient, but:
- only thiefs can use ranged weapons (you don't buy ammo, each time you enter dungeon, you have set ammount of ammo, higher your level, more ammo you get, but when you shoot it all out, that's it)
- same for spells : each hero can cast only limited ammount of spells / tier / dungeon.
- melee : this goes infitie, but you can harm only frong line of enemies, so when the enemy group has some cunning casters in back rows - cutting em down in melee poses big risks.
- you have 'energy' with the code name of HW - this usually starts with 3000 and goes down by each step you make. Does HW reach zero - you are a goner (like killed) -> may sound nasty, but brings extra thrill in the game. (also makes you think twice before mindlessly running through the dungeons)

What the game does not provide in creation phase, returns in the promotion phase.
- leveling may also be automated, but there are plenty ways to gain XP (even by 'consuming' other, not needed heroes :D)
- leveling your C hero up to max level, unlocks an option to PROMOTE him - extra fun (extra costs too) . Should you not have enough money (or WJ - VIP currency), you need to rely puerly on your luck to gather 3 special artefacts, that are required to promote. But should you get them, you can promote your C hero to UQ hero (with adequate bonuses) and UQ to R and R to SR...
So the game begins to be fun not only in the margins of dungeon crawling, but also around your party / group management, overall economics (as you profile is not tied to one party, or few heroes - you can change / delete / hire them at free will - you will always keep your progress, resources, dungeon status)
Dungeon status : what levels you have unlocked.

And this is the point, where the simple looking game becomes nicely complex and worth each penny one paid for it.
I wish there wuld be more games like this.

Totally love this game.