Wizardry Clone

Wizardry Clone is an unofficial term and sub-genre used to describe dungeon crawling role-playing games that shares similarities or identical gameplay from Wizardry games. The term name is originating from Wizardry role-playing video game series in 1981 since Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. It also commonly known as "Wizclones" or "Wizlike" (ウィズライク, Uizuraiku). In Japan, they referred the term as "Wizardry-style" (ウィザードリィ風, Uizādorī Fū).

Gameplay

The gameplay usually feature an interchangeable party members, choice of recuperate in several different rooms, stocking items in shop, taking dead bodies into temple or similar, character creation, reclassing characters. The core gameplay must be in first-person maze dungeon crawling and turn-based combat while it's necessary, however combat in real-time with point-and-click interface to fight may not be qualified in such subject, such as the gameplay found in Dungeon Master game and 1999 Eye of the Beholder.

List of Games

Spiritual successors

Image	Series/Game	Developer	Platform(s)	Release date(s)	Succeeded from
File:Elminage logo.png	Elminage	Starfish	PlayStation 2 Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable Nintendo 3DS Microsoft Windows	March 27, 2008	Wizardry Empire
File:Generation XTH.jpg	Generation XTH	Experience (Team Muramasa)	Microsoft Windows Xbox 360	April 30, 2008	Wizardry XTH
	Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy	Experience (Team Muramasa)	PlayStation Vita Microsoft Windows	April 30, 2015	Wizardry XTH
	Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy	Experience (Team Muramasa)	PlayStation Vita Microsoft Windows	July 24, 2014	Wizardry XTH
File:COH logo.png	Class of Heroes	Zero Div	PlayStation Portable PlayStation 3 Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Switch PlayStation 5	August 26, 2008	Wizardry XTH

Independent

Image	Game	Author	Platform(s)	Release date
File:Javardry.jpg	Javardry	To be added	Java	To be added
	NIZ	Altorreras	iOS Android PC Browsers	2020
	MIZ	Altorreras	iOS Android PC Browsers	January 29th, 2022
File:Sorcery (Wizclone).png	Sorcery: Shadows under Llylgamyn	Dave Moore	To be added	To be added
	The Dark Spire	Success Atlus	Nintendo DS	May 22nd, 2008 (JP) April 14th, 2009 (NA)
	Murkon's Refuge Murkon's Vengenace	Samuel Stoddard Rinkworks	Browser	2002
	Jettatura	Nick Baker Kyoto Cybernetics	Steam	October 15th, 2022

The Wizardry Franchise
Llylgamyn	Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (remake) - The Knight of Diamonds - Legacy of Llylgamyn - The Return of Werdna - Heart of the Maelstrom
Cosmic Forge	Bane of the Cosmic Forge - Crusaders of the Dark Savant (Gold / PSX) - Wizardry 8
Gaiden	Suffering of the Queen - Curse of the Ancient Emperor - Scripture of the Dark - Throb of the Demon's Heart - Dimguil - Prisoners of the Battles - The Absence of Misericordia - The Five Ordeals (Traveler's Property / Children of the King Selene / The Devoid of Apotheosis / The Pickled Man of Galvan / The Wheels of Flame / The Price of Deception)
Starfish	Wizardry Empire - The Staff of Resurrection - Princess of the Ancient - II (Plus) Legacy of the Princess - Ancestry of the Emperor - Asterisk: The Scarlet Seal
BUSIN	Tale of the Forsaken Land - Gotz' Trap Removal - BUSIN 0: Wizardry Alternative NEO
XTH	Academy of Frontier - Unlimited Students
Renaissance	The Wedge of Life - Labyrinth of Lost Souls (The Red Shadow of the Sister) - Online Mobile - Legacy of Oblivion - Prisoners of the Lost City - Online - Wizardry 0 - The Magical Tower of War - Schema - Wizrogue: Labyrinth of Wizardry
Other games	Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure - Chronicle - Summoner - Wizlite: Everybody loved RPGs
Mobile/Cellphone games	Pay Wizardry - Monthly Wizardry - Wizardry Chapter 1 - DoCoMo Wizardry - Wizardry Traditional - Wizardry Original - Variants Daphne
Cancelled	Stones of Arnhem - Wizardry Gaiden VB - Strange Tale of the Rising Sun - Wandering Dark Lord
Compilations	The Wizardry Trilogy: Scenarios I, II & III - I-II - The New Generation - Trilogy 2 - III-IV - VI & VII Complete - The Ultimate Wizardry Archives - Llylgamyn Saga - New Age of Llylgamyn - I-II-III: Story of Llylgamyn - Twin Pack - Perfect Pack - Legacy: BCF, CDS & 8
Tabletop games	Wizardry RPG - Wizball
Novels	Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - The Story of Alavik and Margda - Knight of Diamonds - Legacy of Llylgamyn - Heart of the Maelstrom - Ash & Youth Side by Side - The Wind. Has it reached the Dragon? - The Return of Werdna - Suffering of the Queen (Futabasha) - Suffering of the Queen Iris - King of the Sands - Llylgamyn War - Prelude/Expansion - The League of the Crimson Crescent - Blade & Bastard
Media	Quest for Hrathnir - Wizardry (anime) - Gaiden (manga) - Apolon Game Music Box Memorial Sound of Wizardry - ZEO (manga) - Record of Wicked Sorcerer: Ash & Youth - Blade & Bastard (manga)
Other related	Ultima - The Bard's Tale - Deathlord - Centauri Alliance - Elminage - Generation XTH - Class of Heroes - Wizardry Clone - Wizardry references in popular culture
Collaborations	Demon Tribe - Dungeon Dive: Aim for the Deepest Level - Final Fantasy Agito - Rise of Mana - Samurai Schema - Darkest Dungeon II

Terms and Mechanics
General
Castle - Town - Dungeon - Combat - Spells - Turn - Action - Level - Experience - Party - Skills - Items - Gold - Equipment - Fight - Parry - Damage - Hide - Use - Equip - Flee - Accuracy - Ailments - Drops - Encounter - Random Encounters - Fixed Encounters - Ambush - Difficulty - Armor Class - Reorder - Teleportation
Franchise-wide
Tavern - Inn - Trading Post - Temple - Training Grounds - Monsters - Armor Class - Alignment - Disarming - Summoning - Level Drain - Decapitation - Interaction - Ashes - Age - Title
Cosmic Forge Trilogy
Rest - Scouting - Oratory - Legerdemain - Skullduggery - Music - Swimming (W7 & W8) - Artifacts - Mythology - Scribe - Thaumaturgy - Alchemy - Theology - Theosophy - Ninjutsu - Kirijutsu
BUSIN series
Quests - Critical - Trust - Party Rank - Allied Actions - Trap Game - Vellum - Monster Materials - Mutated Stones - Moon System
Wizardry Renaissance
WizJewels (WR)
Others
Rewind (WVD) - Wizardry Clone