Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

There's unfair, then there's this game, at first the game is mildly entertaining, then it true colors come out, next to no gold, incredibly difficult to upgrade your party, and your guys are constantly dying costing even more gold, and then sometimes they just wont revive, seriously what is the point? and even if you break your balls to be as careful as possible, you just get 1 shot my mediocre enemies out of nowhere, dumbest ♥♥♥♥ ever, i was playing as careful as possible, and then boom meager level 3 enemy insta kills one of my guys, and then of coarse dont have enough money to revive, ♥♥♥♥ this ♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥ game and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seriously, where are they keys? level 3 is ♥♥♥♥ maze with nothing in it and level 4 leads nowhere, this game is ass, dont get it if you are looking for older RPGs from yester-century steer clear because this ♥♥♥♥ is just not fun, it slowly becomes infuriating and after having your 20th dude die ( espeically half the time from stupid ♥♥♥♥ that you had no control over) thats it game over man, game over

This is the game if you want to feel what the true grandfather of RPGs was in a way that doesn't involve tearing out your eyeballs after staring at black and white for 4+ hours and having to use the entire keyboard like you were typing an essay at 4 am. It's basically a Graphic interface and bug fixes update over the original, so the experience is basically 95% the same (if you want to count the choice between the original Apple II maps vs the Console ones) so you have to take that into account. You don't go into this expecting the gameplay of modern dungeon crawlers like Etrian Odyssey. You expect to dive into this and get smashed against the wall enough times to understand what the hell are you doing and how to progress. You'll grind the first level of the dungeon enough to memorize it even though there's not a real "minimap", you'll wince when you understand that curing paralysis is expensive, and you'll be afraid 99% of the time when your favorite character gets decimated and can't be revived. Or you can read some guides, if you'd like. The guides will only try to prepare you, but the dungeon is savage enough to be able to 100-0 your entire party if you feel cocky enough to farm for a few minutes more instead of going back. However, if you don't like that, it has options to basically feel like a roguelite and not bitchslap you each time you get wiped. Play as you like, don't feel guilty. Try, explore, fail and try again.

great osr!!

A great revival of a classic PC game!

im playing mostly the hard version in old school rules, 3-5 options i changed, and everything i say just listen to me. So, in English, so im makeing sure on full rille everybody understands me. if u think this game is for casuals, no u dont need to spend ur life time, but u need to choose ur choice wisely, 1 more fight could mean the end of your group and means ur lovely last 10hrs is meaningless, bc u need to restart with lvl 1 chars and u may can save ur high lvl chars u just lose, but u need gold to revive them, gold u dont have, because u start off poor, makeing money, means u have a group to farm with, if u just started off the game i promise u, u will lose ur chars more often then u change ur underpants, if u have new school rules it may be different, but i dont give my word on that, i want the old school slap into my face, if u want it to and u want to struggle and keep biting on, buy it!!!!! all i say

I'm hooked ! this game and zork were my go to games when i was young.. I love how they upgraded it. its tough at the start and you need to memorize your map but fun as hell. :) ok so now ive been playing for a few weeks and all my characters are level 12. I learned the secret to jump to level 4 in just a few moments. I love this game except for one problem..... so far there is only one spell that teleports you back to town but it leaves all your gear in place ;(...

懐かしいとてもたのしくて難易度もちょうどいいと思います。

Played this on an Apple II back in the day. First video game I played to the end. Still holds the charm of the original, just updated to run on modern hardware.