Idle Wizard
…Then try out Idle Wizard! It’s an idle game infused with RPG elements, centered around becoming the most powerful wizard the world ever knew.
The core aspect of Idle Wizard is choosing a Character Class. You start as an Apprentice, and are able to choose various Classes (12 total, with 6 powerful Hybrid classes later in the game), from classic fantasy-inspired sorceres to more unique magic-wielders. Classes use different mechanics to gain profit, are equipped with unique spells and items tailored for their use. While they’re not unlocked all at once, all have use and range in power depending on your current progress and do not follow the simple logic of “the later it is unlocked – the more powerful it is now”.
Pets are a very important mechanic in Idle Wizard. All of them have a unique role and purpose, and most of the time it’ll be beneficial to use more than more than one per run.
Spells are paramount to your success (naturally!). After you get the hang of basics in the first few minutes, you gain your first spell-scroll and can start casting spells. Their mechanics differ greatly fro one another, from sheer profit or a buff, to meta-spells like speeding up time or boosting the xp of your pets! All the classes use a combination of common and unique ones, and sport quite a few possible combinations.
Later in the game you can unlock and craft Items to help you profit even more – over a hundred total! Experiment with different item sets and loadouts to find the best one for the situation.
Amount of available upgrades, achievements, and various more complex mechanics like Challenges, Trials, Catalysts and Expeditions allow for secondary goals and ways to boost you even more. There’s much to learn and explore!
Game Discussion
Steam User 6
A more complex idler, as it has multiple classes, each favoring different play-styles (plus there are plenty of spells, pets, gear and artifacts that boost various aspects of the game, like idle/offline/click bonuses); it has gear crafting and upgrading, each piece of gear offering specific bonuses that synergize with the classes, there are soft resets (exiles) and also hard resets (realms), with realms imposing gameplay restrictions but also offering greater rewards in the form of realm upgrades, plus pantheons and memetics that further boost your resource generation by offering even more bonuses. There are quests that explain the basic mechanics, trials that offer random resources, and challenges that'll unlock permanent legacy upgrades. There's also a very helpful wiki that explains how to progress through all the brackets and even how to complete the more difficult/demanding challenges.
My biggest problems with Idle Wizards are that it has a very slow start, and later on it becomes very tedious as you have to constantly manage different aspects of the game (change your class, your pet, your gear, complete challenges to be able to progress further). I feel the developers didn't find a good balance between idle and active gameplay, and most of the time you'll have to come back to the game to tweak something.
It's mostly an enjoyable game once it gets going, and you start to experiment with builds, but I also can see why some people would be put off by Idle Wizards as it is very time-consuming and exhausting at times.
Steam User 5
If you like idle games, give it a shot. It does a lot of things right.
The gameplay loop is enjoyable and the lore is interesting. Pretty decent progression mechanics until about mid-late game, when it suffers the same issue as many idle games and hits the wall, becoming nearly impossible to progress in order to create artificial difficulty and gameplay longevity.
Oh, and don't hesitate to use game guides if you do struggle with late game. They make it very clear that you're required to spend hours and hours grinding out progression with the perfect item sets.
Steam User 4
I love this game and I don't really know why, but it hits all the Wizard in a dark tower vibes. If you want a complex idler with actual builds, give it a go.
Steam User 4
I've played for a little while and i think this game is fun. If you enjoy idle games, maybe you'll think this game is fun too :)
Steam User 6
I don't think I've ever written a review for a game on Steam, but this one really deserves one. For me, it's not just the fact that it's an amazing idle game with a lot of depth and content - it's the incredible and bizarre art style of the classes and pets, and the lore that feels like it's straight out of a '90s sci-fi book.
Steam User 2
Played for 6 hours, made a bunch of progress, came back the next day and game was reset like I had never played it before. Tried loading cloud save but didn't work. I made sure to hit exit in the menu when I finished the day before but still, lost all progress. Maybe I did something wrong? Maybe I should have exported and quadruple clicked cloud save? I don't know.
Edit: Just tried it again and it asked me which cloud save to load, only the cloud saves both were ones that had no progress. Guess I completely lost the 6 hours. I know it's not a lot of time, for an idle game, but I'm still disappointed and probably won't play the game again.
Edit Edit:Changing to recommend since the Dev responded. Seems like it was just bad luck and bad timing I started playing the game on the day there was a big bug.
Steam User 3
This is the best idle/incremental game I have played and the only one that has kept my attention for many months.
I like these aspects of the game in particular:
+ unique and mysteriously arcane look
+ a plethora of systems which unlock over time and allow you to advance your powers in multiple ways
+ a constant feeling of making meaningful progress
+ many classes and special challenges for variety in gameplay.
+ healthy mix of active and passive gameplay
+ numbers go up!!! (seriously, progression keeps feeling good in this game because there are so many things to upgrade)
One caveat that needs to be mentioned:
For long term enjoyment, I would heavily advise to read the Wiki for more detailled explanations, guides and helpful spreadsheets for optimisation. The Discord is also a very helpful ressource.
At a certain point in the game it becomes very difficult to eyeball your decisions and consulting the wisdom of the math wizards of the community becomes imperative.
(Unless you can unshackle your mind from the need for optimisation.)