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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a full 3D remake of the first game in the legendary Wizardry series of RPGs.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
30 of the 64 reviews raise this.
“This is an excellent remaster of the dungeon crawling classic! Digital Eclipse did a great job of updating the graphics and adding some modern features without diminishing the original gameplay. I'm glad this remake…”
“If you're an older game that played the original and you want to replay it with graphics, a GUI, and some nice quality of life add-ons (or not - you can leave it in "old school" mode and play it just like the original…”
“I played the original with floppies. This remake was great! Heck of an adventure if You Like the D&D stuff. Heck of adventure if you didn't know you like D&D stuff. Character creation and development, tactics,…”
17 of the 64 reviews raise this.
“This is an excellent remaster of the dungeon crawling classic! Digital Eclipse did a great job of updating the graphics and adding some modern features without diminishing the original gameplay. I'm glad this remake…”
“If you're an older game that played the original and you want to replay it with graphics, a GUI, and some nice quality of life add-ons (or not - you can leave it in "old school" mode and play it just like the original…”
“I played the original with floppies. This remake was great! Heck of an adventure if You Like the D&D stuff. Heck of adventure if you didn't know you like D&D stuff. Character creation and development, tactics,…”
6 of the 64 reviews raise this.
“I played the original with floppies. This remake was great! Heck of an adventure if You Like the D&D stuff. Heck of adventure if you didn't know you like D&D stuff. Character creation and development, tactics,…”
“It is the classic, but upgraded with beautiful graphics. I almost don't mind dying so much.”
5 of the 64 reviews raise this.
“If you're an older game that played the original and you want to replay it with graphics, a GUI, and some nice quality of life add-ons (or not - you can leave it in "old school" mode and play it just like the original…”
“Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord as revived by Digital Eclipse and published alongside Atari is less a remake in the modern sense and more a careful act of preservation that happens to be playable by…”
“wizardy 1981 with a new coat of paint. you'll either love it or absolutely hate it. there's no new fancy brand new story mode or anything, it truly is just the game with a fresh set of graphical changes an a UI that…”
11 of the 64 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Game has an issue where it freezes when attempting to reposition your characters in the tavern. This is a known issue since 2024 that forces you to hard close the game from the task manager.”
“There are too many unfortunate bugs that cause the game to have to be closed via the task manager and I ran into a nasty bug that completely deleted my character's identity entirely, their class/equipment/name/portrait…”
“I originally refunded this game, but needing to learn mapping software (Grid Cartographer) some of the new school functions would help me verify my accuracy. I rebought it. The game runs, ok... but it's a buggy ok. The…”
10 of the 64 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“So ya, TPK = Total Party Kill. A Huge Middle finger to new players on fight number 2 (if you go the right way, if not then its your first fight.) No chance to even level up or get stronger. I guess this is to teach you…”
“Second encounter = TPK. Enough said. Refund.”
“I'm not sure why this is currently sitting at Mostly Positive. I experienced no bugs (other than not using the first save slot as instructed which has a habit of being overwritten, and turned off cloud saves) and it ran…”
6 of the 64 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“While I loved Wizardry 30 years ago, a coat of paint doesn't make up for all the improvements in the genre since that time. Nostalgia burned hot for...5 minutes. After that, I had an old game that has since been…”
“So ya, TPK = Total Party Kill. A Huge Middle finger to new players on fight number 2 (if you go the right way, if not then its your first fight.) No chance to even level up or get stronger. I guess this is to teach you…”
“I hoped to like this game as I'm old school gamer, but no.. World has moved on and game mechanics are too clunky and grindy to enjoy as there are so many other excellent RPG:s around. Unfortunately I let this sat on my…”
5 of the 64 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“If you're an older game that played the original and you want to replay it with graphics, a GUI, and some nice quality of life add-ons (or not - you can leave it in "old school" mode and play it just like the original…”
“I hoped to like this game as I'm old school gamer, but no.. World has moved on and game mechanics are too clunky and grindy to enjoy as there are so many other excellent RPG:s around. Unfortunately I let this sat on my…”
“Great game, if you're REALLY interested in RPG history I recommend it. From a gameplay perspective I will say the first hour of the game is an uphill battle, as your team barely has the strength to last more than a…”
4 of the 64 reviews raise this.
“There are too many unfortunate bugs that cause the game to have to be closed via the task manager and I ran into a nasty bug that completely deleted my character's identity entirely, their class/equipment/name/portrait…”
“So ya, TPK = Total Party Kill. A Huge Middle finger to new players on fight number 2 (if you go the right way, if not then its your first fight.) No chance to even level up or get stronger. I guess this is to teach you…”
Counted across 64 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 77.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I played this game 45 years ago! (The 1st dungeon crawl ever made, I think.) And never completed it... And now that it is remade with the exact same mazes and some very nice improvements and graphics, I will finally be able to finish this game before I die. And then my life will…”
— a player, Steam review · 78 hrs played“As a player of the original Wizardry for the Apple as a thirteen-year-old in 1981 and the first computer RPG for both myself and my next door neighbor, whos father worked for IBM and bought the game for us to play on his machine, I was thrilled to learn of this remake. I bought…”
— a player, Steam review · 72 hrs played“Love the game, but during my very short playtime I ran into multiple game breaking bugs. Twice a lost a character during leveling up (character simply got overwritten by a level 0 nameless character). Therefore, cannot recommend.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 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 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update Notes for 1.1.1 (Hotfix)
Addressed a potential lock up when casting DUMAPIC under certain circumstances
Update 1.1: The Fast Combat Update
Greetings, adventurers! We've heard your feedback since the release of Wizardry, and we appreciate all your suggestions. We've fixed numerous bugs and added a few features requested specifically by pl
Update Notes for 1.0
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord has reached a major milestone with the 1.0 release of the game. Here are the items that were addressed/improved in this latest update: Numerous bugfixes F
Update Notes for Patch 0.4.1
Hello and happy Friday! We are releasing a small update to the current 0.4 version of the game to address some player feedback and introduce a new experimental feature! (As noted below, please back up
Update Notes for 0.4: March of the Mad Overlord
Friends and adventurers, we sincerely hope you find this massive March of the Mad Overlord update to have been worth the wait. We've spent the first quarter of 2024 bringing many planned features and
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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 | Action, RPG |
| Player tags | Dungeon Crawler · CRPG · Party-Based RPG · Exploration · RPG · Turn-Based Strategy · Character Customization · First-Person · Dark Fantasy · Dragons · Demons · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese |
| Achievements | 28 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 GPU Storage: 2 GB available space