Wizard With a Gun

Wizard With a Gun

released on Oct 17, 2023

Wizard With a Gun

released on Oct 17, 2023

Wizard with a Gun is an online cooperative sandbox survival game set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with friends to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown.


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fun and silly, wish there was less grinding

It meshes survival games like don’t starve with roguelites similar to cult of the lamb with a fun premise that makes me want to play it even more

A little too easy for me and my boyfriend, maybe it's because we took all the right choices when upgrading some bullets. It took us around 15h hours to complete the whole game, and the final boss was easier than the fourth one, for example, after all the hype we were building up, it was a little disappointing. The music and the artstyle are pretty unique, but it lacks a lot of content for 25 bucks, if we had played every day, it would've been finished in less than a week, but we love to take it easy. Besides that, I really had fun, the plague doctor was my go-to costume. Hope it gets an upgrade it the future, because it's necessary at it's finest, not a paid DLC, but a BIG upgrade.

This game clearly suffered from feature creep.

I've had this game on my wishlist for about two years, because its artstyle and the promise of coop was appealing. But sadly, this game was created without focus.

It could have doubled down on the combat, the crafting, the progression or the world, but it did not decide and did a littlebit of everything, making none of these choices suffice for a game.

My personal fix for this game would have been the following: Make the home base completely static like in Bastion or Hades, visually pleasing and filled to the brim with the various progression systems. Then focus the rest of the work on the gunplay, the game is called "Wizard with a Gun" after all and sadly, you do not feel like a teleporting, gun-slinging maveric in the game.

Then it could have been a great 8 hour experience. Now it's been a 16 hour grindy and janky slog.