Rogue Wizards
By Marcia Morgan,
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Dungeon-crawling adventure is slightly unbalanced but fun.

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What’s It About?
In ROGUE WIZARDS, players take on the role of a Banlit, unaware of your magical potential until you find a mysterious scroll. With the help of friendly townspeople to guide you, along with lots of positive reinforcement, you embark on a quest to stop an evil wizard. Your goal is to gather an army in your hidden town to stop Hosperak, close the dangerous rifts, and make peace with the six elemental realms. You'll also collect treasures, master magic, solve puzzles, and rid randomly generated dungeons of the monsters invading through the rifts.
Is It Any Good?
Rogue Wizards is a really good dungeon-crawling adventure, with a very cute style. Game length is balanced, in that there's plenty to do but it's never a chore. The opening does sort of drop you into the action without much of an explanation of how, why, or what to do, but over time you start to piece everything together.
Getting through the game's dungeons can be a bit of a grind, which is fairly typical for this type of game. But if you're the kind of person who wants to dig in and leave no stone unturned, then you'll have a blast trying to squeeze every last bit of XP by finding every treasure and defeating every monster. There are times that the game feels a little unbalanced, though. Some enemies are a cinch to defeat, while others feel nearly impossible to get past. And since some of the bosses warp all over the map during the turn-based battles, you can spend a large chunk of time just trying to chase them down. This isn't a huge problem if you come into the fight prepared with a good arsenal of spells and a little bit of strategy, but sometimes that's a lot easier said than done.
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Game Details
- Platforms: Mac, Windows
- Pricing structure: Paid ($14.99)
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: Spellbind Studios
- Release date: September 27, 2016
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- ESRB rating: NR for No Descriptions
- Last updated: March 7, 2019
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