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 4
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 3
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
Number go up good. Choice of playstyle (via class line and pet line) good. Wiki (not the fandom domain one) with more detail than my mildly math adverse brain wants is good. There's even a discord with knowledgeable and experienced players.
If you want number go up and don't mind research, it's a fantastic game. If you prefer to stumble in the dark while learning the mechanics by yourself, it's not for the faint of heart.
At the cost of free, it's worth trying either way.
Steam User 3
I love idle games.
Idle wizard nails the idle game formula. It's wiki heavy, and often confusing at first. I found the discord to be a valuable resource. Really cool incremental progress on multiple progression methods, just a really good idle game. This is a long haul one.
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 1
Love wizards, spellcraft, generating mana and casting a crapton of spells?
How about unlocking cool new classes, pets, playstyles and more?
Do you like the feeling of progression, and big numbers?
I mean REALLY big numbers, in that if they would be rendered in everyday terms, there would be too many zeros, a cumbersome, awkward notation that would feel antiquated almost immediately, in relative terms.
The classes, the pets, the spells, equipment, trials, challenges, your apprentice and their journey - this is a good game and a worthwhile expenditure of time.
Steam User 2
A good game that actively gets updates.
Earlier reviews complain about poor offline progression. It got an overhaul this year, and now is much closer to the active game. Plenty of other QoL changes too.