Wizard Prison
Spectrum Nox · 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Retro, Difficult, Great Soundtrack
PC
Positive90% · 39
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About Wizard Prison
Conception
Wizard Prison started as a college assignment for us, but quickly became our pet project. We shared a vision for a difficult, retro, gritty fantasy game inspired by the 16-bit era. As each semester led to the next, we continued to work on Wizard Prison as we knew we had something worth sharing. We were excited to do our finishing touches, eventually add a true final boss, and release Wizard Prison to the public for some nominal price tag. As time went on, however, it became clear that life post-graduation would take the team on separate paths. Paying the bills would take priority, and those finishing touches would never happen. After multiple attempts to revive Wizard Prison to no avail, we collectively decided to release our most recent build, playable from start to finish, for everybody to enjoy free of charge. We hope you will enjoy escaping Wizard Prison as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Good luck.
Features
Art
Wizard Prison started as a college assignment for us, but quickly became our pet project. We shared a vision for a difficult, retro, gritty fantasy game inspired by the 16-bit era. As each semester led to the next, we continued to work on Wizard Prison as we knew we had something worth sharing. We were excited to do our finishing touches, eventually add a true final boss, and release Wizard Prison to the public for some nominal price tag. As time went on, however, it became clear that life post-graduation would take the team on separate paths. Paying the bills would take priority, and those finishing touches would never happen. After multiple attempts to revive Wizard Prison to no avail, we collectively decided to release our most recent build, playable from start to finish, for everybody to enjoy free of charge. We hope you will enjoy escaping Wizard Prison as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Good luck.
Features
Art
- 16-bit style
- Modern dynamic lighting
- Top-down perspective
- "Twin stick" control with WASD and mouse
- Auto map
- Retro-style SFX
- Dynamic, real-time BGM
- Non-linear action/exploration gameplay
- Five main spells plus one bonus spell-- can you find it?
- Exploding barrels!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀9 found this helpful
Wizard Prison is a donationware 2D top down retro pixel shooter/brawler where you control a wizard in a 2D retro pixel dungeon. Gameplay consists of moving around, shooting stuff, collecting stuff, and having your eyes damaged by blocky 2D retro pixel "art". The developers made the professional move of doing bespoke, handcrafted level design and progression, which gives the game some soul outside of the cookie-cutter yet-another-pixel-game styling. They chose to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. The game is mostly free, but the developers want donations through buying the soundtrack. Making the game generally free is certainly a gesture that shows dedication to the gaming industry. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. There's no "maybe" option in Steam, unfortunately, but I hope to see more w…2 found this helpful
I could make a better game.1 found this helpful
Игра «Wizard Prison» — необычная головоломка, где магия становится инструментом решения задач. Геймплей сочетает элементы логики и фантазии: нужно использовать заклинания, магические предметы и пространственные головоломки, чтобы освободить заключённого волшебника. Графика минималистичная, но яркая, а атмосфера — загадочная и уютная. Уровни постепенно усложняются, что делает игру увлекательной как для новичков, так и для опытных. Однако отсутствие сюжета и повторяющиеся механики могут наскучить. В целом — приятный способ провести время, если любите интеллектуальные вызовы.
its a fun little game that you can beat in 1 hour and that does not have a proper ending but its fun and the first time round took 3 hours its given me a few hours of fun and its free i am glad i played it
It is really quite fun and challenging. And addictive.
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