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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-24 01:27 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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.
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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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
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