Wizard With a Gun

Wizard with a Gun excels at providing players with a deep magic system and a wild world to inflict it on. With the world hanging on by a thread, it’s up to you to rewind time again and again until your mission is complete.

Wizard With A Gun balances magical gunslinging expeditions with its equally engaging crafting side. It never feels too much or too little of either…an ever-expanding adventure of discovery and mastery that players will want to embark on time and time again.

Wizard With A Gun mixes fast-paced isometric gun combat, immersive sim elements, and rewarding base management into an entertaining survival sandbox experience.

Wizard with a Gun is a 2D isometric roguelike with charming stylized visuals, a heavy focus on crafting, and nice but somewhat repetitive resource gathering and bullet creation systems. It’s the kind of game that may sometimes feel a little overwhelming, forgetting that it should be more lenient with things such as inventory management to avoid frustration from setting in. Still, it’s fun in short bursts and overall a very solid game that gets more enjoyable the more you progress, the more time you get to stay inside the wilderness and discover all the surprises coming with the new biomes.

Not quite a bullseye, but darn close.

While there are times where it feels like Wizard With a Gun doesn't live up to its full potential as a survival game, it still succeeds overall thanks to delivering action-packed twin-stick gunslinging, a gorgeous world with nice lore to discover, and a lot of stuff to find, be it new furniture when it comes to decorating your Tower or new strategies when it comes to dishing out pain. The path of the Gunmancer may not be the most complex, but it still makes for an awesome journey nonetheless in Wizard With a Gun.

Wizard with a Gun is an online sandbox survival game for 1 - 2 players set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with a friend to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown. PC version reviewed.

Wizard with a Gun is a cooperative sandbox survival game developed by Galvanic Games and published by Devolver Digital. Set in a magical world known as The Shatter, you play as a wizard cowboy known as a ‘gunslinger’. After learning that everything has been corrupted by chaotic magical energy, you’re tasked with restoring the balance of the universe.

Wizard With A Gun is unique enough to stand out in a saturated genre. Its survival and crafting elements really make it stand out. Toying with varying bullet types and powders is entertaining as is exploration and combat. It's a damn shame the multiplayer and technical issues hold back what could have been a fantastic game.

An enchanting art style and consistently excellent character and world design mask some of the shortcomings in this otherwise engaging survival title that benefits from a host of roguelite elements.

Wizard with a Gun is the sixth game from Galvanic Games and their first published by Devolver Digital. It’s an interesting game where extraction meets roguelike — a match made in heaven. You play as a Wizard — and get this — you also use a gun. To summarize the story, the world has been destroyed by metaphysical Chaos. Your job is to find gears to rewind time, use found Arcana to upgrade your arsenal, and eliminate five bosses to heal the world.

Galvanic Games’ Wizard With A Gun is a relaxing and breezy collectathon to pad out these colder months, mixing casual crafty survival with isometric action and exploration. Dig any deeper into its composite parts, though, and its gameplay limitations and weird structure become more apparent, in spite of an adorably animated presentation and style. Players guide their wizard through five different biomes, accomplishing near-identical tasks in each, all while subject to a fairly unimpactful time constraint as the only real challenge to speak of. Calling this game a roguelite is arguably missing ...