Rift Wizard 3

Don't get me wrong, the core game is solid, but I cannot recommend it right now. The balance is too restrictive: if you play with your own builds instead of sticking to meta setups, good luck get past lvl10(or less).

Everything in this game is kinda better than rift wizard 2, but also kinda worse at the same time. The main two differences I see are: [h1]Equipment[/h1] Equipment was deconceptualized from actual equipment and instead turned into a series of components, which the player just sees as various letters. To craft a pair of boots might take AKE***, where the star is a wildcard. How this plays out is, instead of peering into the next level and seeing the choices as: Fire Boots / Lightning Staff / Dragon Hat, the player instead sees the choices as AEKBBR / LILRA / ARETTC. This is a huge drawback for understandability, because it's just a bunch of random letters. On the flip side, it increases the player choice manifold, because instead of only having 3 choices, you now have hundreds. You didn't JUST get offered a pair of fire boots, but you got instead the choice of making one of 15 things those letters could combine into, or saving them up for making something even greater! It's just extremely confusing and hard to keep in your head. [h1]Difficulty Curve[/h1] On rift wizard 1 & 2, aside from the first dozen or so runs you've ever played, you could regularly make it to at least floor 6-7 before crashing out from not getting something cool going. On rift wizard 3, that point in the game has moved to floor 3, and sometimes floor 2. What this means, practically, is you have to meticulously examine every rift, FROM THE START OF THE GAME, and figure out how you are going to beat the whole level before you even enter, before you pick a level to go to. This involves reading the full description of each enemy, their abilities, resistances, and placement on the level, and then figuring out if you have enough spells and spell charges to defeat every enemy before running out of charges, and if not, what spell or equipment must you craft to continue onwards. Gone are the consumable potions and doohickeys from rift wizard 1 & 2 that could get you out of a tight spot! If you get cornered, or run out of spell charges, you are dead, the end. There isn't really any equipment you can craft that will get you out of a situation like this, and it's so early in the game you don't really have any SP saved up. This, of course, doesn't apply if you look up builds online / on the official discord, which I categorically refuse to do, because that seems to defeat the entire purpose of playing such a game. I'm sure there are some extremely consistent & powerful combos of spells and equipment that can reliably carry you through the first few floors. I just don't see why I would want to have someone else tell me how to play the game, when the game is all about learning and growing your understanding of the concepts & enemies. Unfortunately, I think the core problems I have with this game are not, in fact, oversights or balancing issues, and are instead design decisions by the developer, so it's not likely they are going to be changed at this point. Overall, this game seems to be beloved by a certain set of people, so by that metric, it's a great game. If you enjoy dying on floors 2-4 for 10+ hours before making any progress, and/or looking up build guides online, then you'll probably have a good time with this game.

this game is easily the best singleplayer game that i've come across in years rift wizard 3 is vast but approachable, the game throws a lot of problems at you, and you will struggle to solve them all for a while, but bit by bit you will find what gives you trouble, you will find how to answer it, you'll learn to speak the game's language and when you do the game will start to click and open up, beating the game will feel natural, you can just "go with the flow", answer problems as they come there are two main resources in this game you'll be managing, spell points, and crafting materials, crafting materials are more /limiting/, you can only craft items you have the right materials for, spell points are more /limited/, you can get any spell you have the points for, but you can only have 10 spells, and you can only upgrade any spell twice. these resources often overlap in what they can do, something killing you? use materials to make some armor, craft items that stun it, teleport away with a spell or just straight up annihilate it with magic! the interplay between these resources is incredibly dynamic, and the answer to any given problem changes every game with every build. do you play it safe and craft an extra defensive item? or try to scrape by and save the resources for the build - up to you. when you pick up crafting materials, they have impulse effects for the floor, some are strong enough to beat some early floors on their own, this does help soften the blow of the difficulty curve - you're able to take the stronger material effects instead of picking up the crafting materials that you want so you can get through the floor with these things in mind, you have so much control over this game that the difficulty being how it is is pretty much required for the game to function, the more you learn, the more you get to take risky rifts to get the materials you wanted, but otherwise, you have 3 options for rifts and a reroll, you get to see everything inside them all beforehand and have the power to puzzle it out, there are no surprises unless you aren't paying attention. i've never had a stronger game recommendation for the /deckbuilding/ and /theory-crafting/ minded, RNG rarely plays a substantial role in /making your build/ - instead, you are more often throttled by the amount of materials and excess spell points you can accrue, the more robust your build is, the easier securing these resources becomes, it's SO satisfying to get to the point where you stockpile these resources for on-the-spot encounter-solving! you can't really run out of stuff to do either, the game is vast and there are many spells to play with and challenges to complete, (most give you cute little outfits now too!!! ahh it's so nice!!) i could easily find myself continuing to casually open this a year on from now. I didn't play the other rift wizards and jumped into the deep end here without much issue learning the game, but i love /noita/ and /MTG deckbuilding/ which i would personally consider similar experiences in many ways. i would recommend getting into this game with a friend and taking turns, or having an audience of some sort to backseat you, because of the free-form nature, differing approaches will always pop up, and sometimes you'll end up with a better solution and be better off for it! (you can even chat in the discord, they don't bite!) i would also suggest picking a spell you like and sticking to it for a while, or going for school-of-magic "-mancer" challenge runs pretty early to limit the possibilities, the decision paralysis and information overload problems do happen early on but i don't think it's to the game's detriment. a substantial amount of spells are powerful enough to get you through the majority of the game on their own anyways! there are some balance issues that i forgive for now since the game is new - some spells and equipment are so universally good at solving their problem that you end up taking them every run (say, staving off debuffs or consistent early floor clearing) unless you personally decide against using them, the game has been getting regularly updated though, and the developers seem very involved, i believe this will be wrung out in time and more diverse answers will be brought to the small pool of stagnant solutions a tutorial of sorts might also be nice but i don't feel it's necessary, understanding the game at first is one of the biggest sources of friction, you are forced to gloss over a lot of text that you can't really surmise much from early... the game doesn't ever /get in the way/ of you learning, there is a help menu, a bestiary exists, you can see exactly what damages you for how much, there are turn summaries, /it's just not always easy to find the relevant information early on/. the game isn't for everyone but i feel like most should be able to get something out of it, if you find yourself curious, you really should just pick up the game and take the plunge, it's well worth it.

not a fan of the amount of games released. most of this could have been an update for rift wizard 2

This has become one of my favourite games of all time. If you even remotely like turn-based roguelikes, or difficult but rewarding games, just get it. Don't even hesitate. Everyone saying it's too hard or forces you to get certain spells just hasn't spent enough time with it. This game has no meta-progression. Your progress depends purely on your knowledge of the arsenal of spells and equipment you have access to, and how they synergize and interact with each other. One of the most brilliant aspects of this game is how it manages to make almost every run feel special. Yes, dying late into a run is disappointing, but you can be sure that you'll encounter enough interesting bonuses (usually in the form of shrines or free spells) in the next run to feel like you have a real fighting chance again. I've played the game enough to know that the common roguelike feeling of, "damn, I'll never have as cool a run as that again", is mistaken. That's what keeps me coming back.. and back.. and back...

相比于2代多了不少东西，还没真正开始玩 但是我已经在做了汉化mod 发布在创意工坊 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3772674283

The game should bloody well learn to explain its own damn rules if it wants to be under the tag 'strategy'

Interesting ideas but insanely punishing and horribly balanced. The game has a habit of killing you on the second floor before you even get to engage with the games mechanics After getting a successful run it's _sort of_ playable but it really needs a lot of work

I can't stop playing this game. Just like it's prequels, if it gets it's hooks into you, it really gets them in deep. It's very hard, which makes it even more satisfying to win.