# Wandrium #1 Arena of The Mad Overlord — user reviews

> 43 indexed App Store user reviews of Wandrium #1 Arena of The Mad Overlord by Takashi Miura, rated 2.90/5 from 17 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wandrium-1-arena-of-the-mad-overlord/id1048811520/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wandrium-1-arena-of-the-mad-overlord/id1048811520.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6

## Newest reviews (15 of 43)

### 4/5 — 無料でここまで！？

*2022-12-24, version 1.2.4*

かなり古いタイプのRPG。

良い点としては、何よりボリュームたっぷりなのに無料で遊べることです。

悪い点は、連続タップの判定が緩過ぎて誤操作しやすいことです。1回タップのつもりが2回タップと判定されることが多く、ここぞという所で誤操作で罠に引っかかりパーティー壊滅…なんてことがよくあります。

### 3/5 — Freezes

*2022-05-15, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 3/5 — Very good clone with some problems

*2021-09-05, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 3/5 — Good game, needs some crucial improvements

*2021-07-03, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 4/5 — 昭和世代

*2021-01-04, version 1.2.4*

懐かしのウィザードリィそのまんま
かなり面白いです

### 4/5 — アプデ希望です

*2020-12-12, version 1.2.4*

iOS14対応お願いします！

### 4/5 — ニヤニヤポイント沢山♪

*2020-03-20, version 1.2.4*

ウィズファンならニヤニヤ出来るポイントがそこかしこに散りばめられてますね。

ファミコン版からのフリークですが、隣り合わせの灰と青春とか、小さな有名人とか（笑）

城への階段が北西にあったのが若干戸惑いました。

攻略サイトがあるか不明ですが、昔ながらに自分でマップ作りながらボチボチ進めてます(^-^)

### 2/5 — 誤反応が多すぎる

*2019-08-23, version 1.2.4*

内容そのものは面白いのに、1回タップしただけで連打扱いになる現象が多発して、ゲームにならない。

### 4/5 — 人間忍者作成出来ます！

*2019-03-21, version 1.2.4*

下の方で、人間の忍者は作れないとレビューありますが、このゲームは能力値オール15で忍者を作成できるので、人間でも作成出来ます。(もちろん性格は悪)
キャラ作成時に、キャンセルボタン連打で何度でもボーナスポイントをリセット出来るので、最初から種族問わずオール忍者パーティなど作成出来ます！(成長速度はゲキ遅で苦労すると思いますが)

### 2/5 — 忍者作れない…

*2018-10-19, version 1.2.4*

種族を人間にすると忍者作れないです
他の種族は試していませんが 人間は信心が15までしか上がりません
せっかく悪のパーティー組んだのに 全く無意味でした（泣）

### 2/5 — 落ちすぎ

*2018-09-26, version 1.2.4*

すぐ落ちる、、
これさえなくなれば

### 2/5 — 内容は面白いけど

*2018-08-30, version 1.2.4*

タップ感度が良すぎて、意図しない操作になってしまう。

### 4/5 — かなり良し

*2018-04-14, version 1.2.4*

やはり自分のキャラクターがどんどん成長していくのが楽しい。
残念な点は「armor meltが+1の効果」だったところか。あと、とある貴重品が見つからないです。
修正で改善されるのを待ってます。

### 4/5 — Authentic Wizardry

*2018-04-04*

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.

### 4/5 — admob

*2017-02-08, version 1.2.4*

宝箱の罠解除で失敗して画面が真っ暗になったら、アプリを終了させて再起動させるしかないんですかね？

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Buggy

*2026-03-14, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 1/5 — Froze

*2026-02-16, version 1.2.4*

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

### 1/5 — Froze

*2025-02-08*

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

### 1/5 — 懐かしい感じは良いのに残念

*2024-10-15, version 1.2.4*

宝箱からad広告トラップが出ると画面が真っ暗になり何も出来なくなる。
オートセーブが無いので、そうなるとお手上げです。

### 1/5 — Would pay for it so no ads

*2023-03-11, version 1.2.4*

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

### 1/5 — Buggy and no documentation

*2022-07-04, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 1/5 — Aweful

*2022-03-15, version 1.2.4*

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?

### 1/5 — A Tease … Would have liked to play

*2021-12-11, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 1/5 — don't download

*2016-07-23, version 1.2.3*

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.

### 1/5 — 話にならない

*2016-02-08, version 1.2.0*

何かをしようとすると落ちてしまい、何もできません。キャラ6名作るのに半日かかりました。

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Thanks

*2023-11-24, version 1.2.4*

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.

### 5/5 — Great Wizardry clone

*2020-04-16, version 1.2.4*

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!

### 5/5 — 初スマホでサクサク快適です。

*2019-11-01, version 1.2.4*

wiz探してたら見つけて、どんなもんかやってみたら凄くソックリ！しかも30年前のPC版と違い快適‼︎懐かしくて午後から仕事サボってハマってました。製作者さんに感謝感謝です(^^)

### 5/5 — 素晴らしい

*2019-09-22, version 1.2.4*

掲載広告の使い方が苦にならず、画期的です。このゲームが無料とは、作者様に感謝です。ウィザードリィ1のマニアでしたが、更に遊びやすくなっていると思います。
クリア後の要素も素晴らしいと思います。銀の鍵10階、金の鍵8階、見つけるのは苦労しましたが、裏ボスも制覇、あと村正と聖なる鎧は、存在しているのが、分かりました。あとは、手裏剣もあると信じて探してみます。

### 5/5 — かいてき、かいてき。

*2018-06-06, version 1.2.4*

５インチフロッピーディスクの
ときに遊んでました、
といえばわかるよね。
当時と比べれば
はるかに快適なんだよ
いまのげーむ。わら。

### 5/5 — 良

*2016-04-05, version 1.2.1*

装備変更が少し面倒だけど、なかなか面白い。

### 5/5 — ほぼwiz 1クローン

*2016-04-01, version 1.2.1*

Androidでもお世話になりました。
とっても硬派なwizクローン
アレンジがほとんど無いいさぎよさ

セーブが手動なのがメンドウ
操作性悪いっす
6Splusですが落ちたことは無いっす

### 5/5 — 古き良きwizです

*2015-11-10, version 1.1.0*

ウィザードリィ好きにはオススメ、アンドロイド版でもお世話になりました。

### 4/5 — 初代Wiz

*2026-05-29, version 1.2.4*

基本的にはよくできているけど、操作性がかなり悪いかな。ゲーム自体は面白いです。
8F以外の全マップは塗りつぶしたものの、8Fは未踏破エリアがかなりあるので、なんとか攻略してから後続の作品で遊びたい。

### 4/5 — Freezing

*2024-04-13*

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

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