Wandrium #1 Arena of The Mad Overlord User Reviews

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Buggy

I couldn’t even create a character. It would pull up the keyboard to name the character but just as quickly the keyboard disappeared and it backed out to the Training Grounds menu.

Froze

Freezes up. Used to play this all the time on my iPhone X, still use the same phone but game freezes now.

Froze

Freezes up after tapping a few menu options on iPhone 14.

Freezing

Game can freeze once in a while and makes the game unplayable. Sad.

Thanks

I played the original in the early 1980’s on my family’s Apple II+. It took me forever to complete the first game- proving grounds of the mad overlord. When I finally did it was very satisfying. My father, doing a nice thing, got me the next installment ‘knight of diamonds’ for Christmas. Wow, great I thought! It allowed/required you to play the first game to port the characters that survived the first game to play the second game. Sounds cool, but I lost interest in the second game shortly after starting it. I had become burned out on rpg’s as a teenager. Luckily, back then, just about everyone still played sports in real life. And I would eventually return to Wizardry and other rpg’s. Your game is a nice trip down memory lane for me. Thank you very much for making this game.
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Would pay for it so no ads

Garbage with ads. I would pay for an ad free version. Also freezes because of the lame ads. I’d give zero stars

Buggy and no documentation

The game crashes when identifying items in Boltacs. If you have not saved before doing so you lose all progress. The sage class gets buggy when identifying. If you fail identifying something you can’t identify anymore. No documentation. Stay away from this one.

Freezes

Really hopeful about this. Downloaded and reinstalled twice, freezes when I click on ok to do anything at all. Happened on iPhone 11 and 13 ....

Having seen something similar, I believe it is due to your advertising mechanism.

Aweful

This is one buggy program. No matter what I select from any menu the game freezes up. From character creation to settings. What good is a game you can’t play?

A Tease … Would have liked to play

I loved Wizardry and this app made my heart leap for a moment. But it locks right up and I can’t create a character so I can’t play it. Disappointing and moving on.

Very good clone with some problems

Wow. I played Wizardry 1 as an 8 year-old the year it came out. Loved it. This is a very good replica but it’s flawed in a few ways: spell names are arbitrary (“silence” makes sense but “vajra” doesn’t). Without documentation, it’s hard to learn what each spell does. Items are often misspelled (“ring of thunger” is related to thunder” and I’m not sure what “blin” or “blain” refer to… blind?), saving is simple but restoring is VERY confusing. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn’t. Occassionally characters just disappear from the training grounds. It doesn’t happen often, though. The levels aren’t exactly like the original, which is okay. But there are way too many teleporters on several levels. It makes it a little silly to try to walk around. And I could be wrong but it seems like the dungeon map levels go 1,2,3,4,8,9…? Anyway, I’m enjoying it and using Murphy’s Ghost way too often. Oh and there’s a Valkyrie class which must have snuck in from Wizardry 5 or something. As far as I can tell it’s just a better Lord (amazing fighter, good priest). You can have parties with mixed alignments (good, neutral and evil) so as far as I can tell, alignment doesn’t matter too much except for switching classes later. If you switch classes from a spell-caster, your spell points will change to all 3’s. Can’t remember if that happened in the original game.
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Good game, needs some crucial improvements

I love the Wizardry remake and feel. It’s not a complete replica but close. I would love to see monster graphics and treasure and chest graphics like the original but it’s not crucial.

What is crucial is the major bug when you identify items at the shop and the game closes. Definitely save your game before doing this or all your achievements since the last save will be lost! Also the combat mis spellings are very annoying. Names like dwalfs, alps, balon armors, and many misspelled or just made up names take away from the game since there are no graphics of any of them to give a clue of what things are supposed to be.

As a game designer myself and old school Wizardry fan, I appreciate the work it took to bring this game to life. I am giving it 3 stars for that. If there was no major bug at the shop for identifying items and better English translation and grammar, I will give this game 5 stars.
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Great Wizardry clone

This is a remake of the first wizardry game. Simple interface and no graphics but it’s nice to have wizardry on the go. Thank you!

Authentic Wizardry

Description should mention Wizardry as it’s an almost direct clone with a new map and new items/monsters etc and very little other changes.

Very authentic clone though, controls and ui are well designed enough to be quick on phones.

Some issues with saving in the maze, often doesn’t seem to save, which is problematic as you dive deeper and adventures take longer than a few minutes.

Crashes a lot, suspect this is to do with the constant ad bar that is visible.

Love that there are advertisement rooms and the AdMob chest trap is awesome and helps to keep the game free to play. Great ad integration.

Love the inclusion of a map spell, this makes it slightly more interesting to use as you have to manage your spell points and can’t constantly refer to it. Great mechanism.
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don't download

the text that describes the combat action goes by so fast that you can't read it. i wasted a lot of time creating a party and now I can't play the game.