
Unleash your inner magic and prepare to unravel the mysteries surrounding a death professor gone rogue. Darkness threatens to engulf the Spiral as you master powerful spells, explore over 22 whimsical worlds, and team-up with friends in this nostalgic wizard turn-based deckbuilding MMORPG.
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A powerful dark magic has engulfed Wizard City and the many worlds of The Spiral. You may be a brand-new student at the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts, but you and your magical spells may be the only hope The Spiral has to thwart the evil forces threatening the balance of everything. Are you up to the challenge?

Enroll in the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts and pick one of seven magical schools to specialize in: Balance, Myth, Storm, Fire, Ice, Life, or Death. Each school has its own unique strengths and weaknesses to master and overcome.

Prepare for battle by collecting spell cards and building your spell deck. Hone your strategy to unleash powerful magic and defeat foes in thrilling turn-based card combat. Add/remove spell cards before each battle to strategically get the cards you need when you need them! Take down foes solo or team up with friends for maximum efficiency.

Uncover secrets, meet hilarious fully voice acted characters, and explore vast worlds in an ever-expanding story. Battle your way through prehistoric times, wild jungles, underwater palaces, and more! With over a thousand hours of questing content and more than 16 worlds to discover, there’s always a new adventure on the horizon.

Head to the arena to prove your deckbuilding might! Improve your rank and fight to reach the top of the leaderboard in 1v1 or team-based battles. For even more rewards, participate in tournaments and challenge yourself with special combat rules and restrictions.

Earn incredible exclusive rewards in special limited-time events! Events rotate weekly and could consist of fighting waves of enemies in a certain allotted time, rewarding you for activities you already participate in, and more!

Take time to relax and rest up before your next big fight with numerous side systems! Hatch and train countless adorable pets, craft mighty weapons and gear, harvest hefty rewards with gardening, reel in your best catches with fishing, or decorate your castle to your heart’s content with housing.

You’re never alone in The Spiral. Join and interact with millions of other Wizards across your adventures in this vast MMORPG. Whether you’re looking for assistance with a challenging foe, trading valuable Treasure Cards, or hatching powerful pets, teaming up with friends can be both fun and useful.

The Spiral is always expanding with new exhilarating worlds, fun features, and exciting adventures. Join the community and stay up-to-date on what’s new!
NEW: As of 11/13/2024, we've implemented a new all-file install process (no more loading as-you-play)! Note, this is for NA Steam players only.
At this time, non-Steam players are still using the download as-you-go process, but we are investigating how to eventually implement the all-at-once process for non-Steam players.
Note: Certain areas require an in-game purchase in order to progress.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
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Reviews
Looking at the number of hours I've played this over the years, obviously I recommend it, but not as a free game. It's fun, it's cute, it's cool, and it's addicting. It's also a greedy money grabbing fiend of an MMO. You cannot do almost anything in W101 without a membership, so prepare at least $10 in advance for a month of play, or you will only be able to explore 0.01% of the content. Luckily, you CAN and even should be able to play without ever needing to purchase crowns, but if you want to buy almost anything extra, such as some character customizations, most mounts, several pets, certain houses, certain gear, certain housing items, or anything inside a hoard, lore, or spellement pack, you're gonna have to spend real money. There are things available for in-game gold, but not much. Here's my thing. The idea of spending real money on a free to play game is nothing new, and it doesn't even make me mad. What makes me mad it the rate in which KingsIsle hiked up all of the crown only items. 2,500 crowns is $5. Good luck trying to find much on the crown shop for 2,500 crowns or less. In addition, some items can be bought for crowns or in-game currency. I saw a housing decoration-a statue-that was listed for 1,500 crowns. You can also buy it for 10,000 gold. Do you know how easy it is to get 10,000 gold in the game? Ridiculously easy. And yet, to purchase it with crowns, you're spending $3 of real money. How does that equate to the same value? It doesn't. In fact, you can even buy gold in the crown shop, and the crown to gold rate is COMPLETELY different, so logically, it doesn't even make sense. They do not care. Whoever created the crown prices in the crown shop needs to become a politician and run for office because it's that level of greed. So anyways, have fun with this game, the membership, and your in-game currency and drops from battles. I do recommend that. Please be careful with buying crowns, though. It's so easy to waste sooooo much money.
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One of my favorite games as a kid, and still an amazing game 15 years later as an adult. You can't go wrong with wizards
Зарегался через сайт, включил впн, один хрен игра не пускает, ну не очень то и хотелось
This is a fun game I have played with my kiddo. Many hours spent before it was on steam. Good wholesome game, but I am not a fan of the subscription instead of buying the game. The cash shop is ok but a little pricy for some things. overall, 7/10 for me.
genuinely one of the friendliest MMO communities ive seen. FFXIV wishes its community was like wizard101. shoutout Evi on discord for treating me and my hubby to memberships and mounts while we were noobs.
You get kidnapped from your home to be "enrolled" as a student of magic. Saving the spiral from galactic level threats. All because the headmaster in incompetent and pushes the duty onto the child he stole. You're basically a Jedi but different form of magic. Overall 10/10 Don't try to understand the story, it will ruin your fun. Just enjoy your silly little wizard adventures
I would like to have tried this game, but I'm not even kidding, I created 3 accounts and all 3 got BANNED within minutes of creation, one of them immediately. I can't even fathom why, I was simply creating my character. Looks like I'll never get to be the storm wizard I was fated to be. Joking aside the process for signing up for this is an actual joke, an abomination, trash even. Utterly embarrassing, and will be swiftly uninstalled.
overall fun for a kids card game
WHy cant I use my old childhood account on the steam version, this game is like 20 years old and we cant figure out how to do this safely yet?
It's fun knowing I have a mount older than a good portion of this games' community. Max level used to be 60 when I first started playing, it is now level 180 with over triple the amount of content. Would 1000% recommend if you don't mind a slower paced MMO. Kingsisle please add a combat speed up option if I am in combat alone or in combat with other wizards that have the setting active. If I have seen the animation 1000 times, I don't mind skipping it entirely for future battles.
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