Comparison

Wizardry Level C vs The Luminous Underground

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Wizardry Level C

Embark on a magical journey after discovering an ancient spellbook. Forge your own path as a guild wizard or explore other destinies, from interdimensional travel to transforming your very being. Your choices shape your adventure with multiple endings.

Highlights
  • Character customization (name, gender, alignment, magic focus)
  • Explore magical worlds and encounter creatures
  • Track guild standing and task completion
  • Branching storylines with multiple endings
  • Save points for replaying sections
  • Hints section
Features
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The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard? Or instead travel a different path, striking out on your own, moving to a different plane of existence or perhaps not even remaining human? • Choose your name, gender, elemental alignment and area of magical focus. • Explore worlds both on and off Earth, full of magical creatures. • Track your standing with the wizardry guild and your success in completing the tasks they set. • Good replayablity with branching story lines and over 19 different endings. • Hints section. • Save points allowing replay some sections without having to restart the story from the beginning. • And well....who wouldn't want to be a wizard?

About

The Luminous Underground

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Blast spirits out of a haunted subway system! Can your team defeat rival exterminators, shoddy gear, and City Hall? You've been a daemon dissipator for years, carrying a rainbow blaster and learning the ins and outs of magic to zap electromagnetic monsters into static. After following the jobs from one end of Septenland to the other, you've settled down here in Barrington: an old city. A weird city. A city boiling with spirits, specters, and daemons. It's the perfect place to start a company of your own. "The Luminous Underground" is a 660,000-word interactive secondary-world science fantasy novel by Phoebe Barton, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Your team is just you and McCowan, your friend and business partner, but it's hard for two people to run an operation like this. When you applied for a contract with the Barrington Transit Commission, you didn't expect anything but a flat rejection. But you got it! And now you've got to find more teammates, sharpen your skills, and put a dent in the spirit population while staying well clear of the electrified rail. But you'll find that Barrington's underground is much more than its tunnels. There's a forest down here, teeming with crystalline trees that glitter under your flashlight. There's a portal to the Vitalscape, a super-luminous alternative realm of being. You can enter it through a mural, but you'll need a crystal tuning fork to get back. There are giants, robots, daemons, and even a giant robot daemon. Of course, corruption and mismanagement festers down here. Soon enough, an entire subway train up and disappears from its line. That's not supposed to happen! Or is it? Is this all part of one of your competitor's attempts to secure the subway contract for their own? Is City Hall's stingy maintenance budget to blame? How much can you get paid not to fix this problem? Are you ready to patrol your patch of subway, or will you stand by and let it crumble? • Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, aromantic, or asexual. • Descend into a magic-drenched subway and face down spirits beneath the streets! • Help time travelers integrate into the incredible world of today. • Dig up megacorporate corruption while you dust off vacuum tubes. • Investigate mysterious disappearances down in the underground. • Cooperate with other outfits in town, or act on your own • Lead the mayor to safety through a gauntlet of terrors! • Save the lives of a missing crew under an impossible sky. • Calm down a giant woman who's got you in the palm of her hand. Strange things are crawling out of the subway. Someone better call you.

Screenshots

Wizardry Level C4 screens
The Luminous Underground4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wizardry Level C at Free against The Luminous Underground's $7.99. The Luminous Underground's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wizardry Level C is free to download; The Luminous Underground costs $7.99 up front. Wizardry Level C sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Luminous Underground asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Wizardry Level C versus The Luminous Underground: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWizardry Level CThe Luminous Underground
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating2.6 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 14 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB34 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wizardry Level C

One-time1
  • Rest of the Game$4.99
None

The Luminous Underground

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wizardry Level C free?
Wizardry Level C is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Luminous Underground free?
The Luminous Underground costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wizardry Level C or The Luminous Underground have ads?
Both Wizardry Level C and The Luminous Underground show ads.
Which is updated more often, Wizardry Level C or The Luminous Underground?
Wizardry Level C ships an update every 14 months, and The Luminous Underground every 14 months. Most recently, Wizardry Level C was updated on September 19, 2026 and The Luminous Underground on October 9, 2026.

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