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Rift Wizard
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“It starts out like chess, where you have to figure out where to place your pawns, and ends up like the cold war, where you have to figure out where to place your nukes.”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“What if you pared down a roguelike to just the moment to moment action, where the instant you load on a level you can see every enemy and they can see you and it's down to who kills who first, and what if you did that playing as an all-powerful wizard? That's what Rift Wizard is…”
— a player, Steam review · 60 hrs played“One of the most genuinely innovative roguelikes I've ever played (and I play a lot... like.. a lot of roguelikes lol). The progression system is really cool, beyond your HP there no no character stats or skills to level up, instead you grow your power by acquiring mana orbs…”
— a player, Steam review · 296 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Rift Wizard 2 Launch
Early Access for RW2 begins today. The game is quite similar to RW1, using the most of the existing graphical assets and a slightly modified game engine. I wanted to focus on making the game better ra
Rift Wizard 2
Greetings Wizards. Been a while, hasn't it? A while ago I decided to stop updating Rift Wizard 1 to devote my full energies to Rift Wizard 2. I did this because I wanted to try some things that would
Bugfix Build
Todays build is just to fix a few bugs: Fixed an occasional crash in the spell shop Fixed an occasional crash involving nightmare aura upgrades Fixed volcanic eruption flow range upgrade not working F
Spring Cleaning Patch
Greetings Wizards! This patch focuses on making poison a more useful and reasonable mechanic in the game and correcting some longstanding balance issues. It also contains a few new high level challeng
Beta Update 20220404
One last experimental change I want to test on beta: Poison now disables healing. This applies to the Wizard as well, and healing potions cannot be used while poisoned. In addition, this patch contain
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Character Customization · Rogue-like · Dungeon Crawler · Perma Death · Turn-Based · Magic · 2D · Turn-Based Combat · Procedural Generation · Pixel Graphics · Minimalist · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 21 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64 Bit Windows Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 1600 x 900 resolution display or higher Storage: 600 MB available space