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. Wizardry Clone 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
Contemporary titles
| Image | Series/Game | Developer | Platform(s) | Release date |
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The Bard's Tale | Interplay Productions | Apple II MS-DOS Commodore 64 Macintosh Amiga Amstrad CPC Atari ST NES |
December, 1985 (NA) |
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Might and Magic | New World Computing | Apple II MS-DOS Commodore 64 Macintosh MSX NES PC Engine CD |
1986 (NA) |
Spiritual successors
| Image | Series/Game | Developer | Platform(s) | Release date(s) | Succeeded from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elminage | Starfish | PlayStation 2 Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable Nintendo 3DS Microsoft Windows |
March 27, 2008 | Wizardry Empire | |
| Generation XTH | Experience (Team Muramasa) | Microsoft Windows Xbox 360 |
April 30, 2008 | Wizardry XTH | |
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Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy | Experience (Team Muramasa) | PlayStation Vita Microsoft Windows |
April 30, 2015 | Wizardry XTH |
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Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy | Experience (Team Muramasa) | PlayStation Vita Microsoft Windows |
July 24, 2014 | Wizardry XTH |
| Class of Heroes | Zero Div | PlayStation Portable PlayStation 3 Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Switch PlayStation 5 |
August 26, 2008 | Wizardry XTH |
Corporate-developed
| Image | Game | Developer | Platform(s) | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Dark Spire | Success | Nintendo DS | May 22, 2008 (JP) April 14, 2009 (NA) |
Independent
| Image | Game | Author | Platform(s) | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Javardry | To be added | Java | To be added | |
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NIZ | Altorreras | iOS Android PC Browsers |
2020 |
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MIZ | Altorreras | iOS Android PC Browsers |
January 29, 2022 |
| Sorcery: Shadows under Llylgamyn | Dave Moore | To be added | To be added | |
| NYAZ | Altorreras | Steam iOS Android |
August 11, 2024 | |
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Murkon's Refuge Murkon's Vengenace |
Samuel Stoddard Rinkworks |
Browsers | 2002 |
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Jettatura | Nick Baker Kyoto Cybernetics |
Steam | October 15, 2022 |
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