Rift Wizard 2 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Rift Wizard 2 is a tough as nails traditional roguelike wizard simulator. You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must journey through the cosmos to defeat his nemesis. Each run, you'll build a unique repertoire of spells, passive skills, and magical artifacts.

Rift Wizard 2 is a traditional roguelike, magic and procedural generation game developed and published by Dylan White.
Released on January 31st 2025 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 498 reviews of which 453 were positive and 45 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Rift Wizard 2 into these genres:

Traditional Roguelike Magic Procedural Generation Minimalist Retro RPG 1990's Turn-Based Strategy Rogue-like Strategy Character Customization Turn-Based Combat Tactical RPG 2D Pixel Graphics Fantasy Old School Singleplayer Indie

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Graphics: 1360 x 768 display

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Feb. 2025

Amazing game. Puts a lot of roguelikes to shame with the sheer amount of spells, items, and skills to choose from. I would also say that it is significantly better than Rift Wizard 1. Don't listen to the reviews claiming that you have to use certain builds or spells to win. Anyone who says this is just bad at the game. I even saw someone claiming that Conjurations are bad... My two wins so far were heavy with Conjurations, and one of those wins was the Archmage Trial that limits your spellbook! There aren't any gimmicks or exploits you have to rely on to win, the game rewards you for good planning, spell and skill knowledge, and execution. It has the traditional roguelike step-based turns, so you can take your time learning the game. I would recommend not looking up guides or any sort of spoilers... Experiment with the spells and skills like a proper wizard would! The game is hard, but also quite flexible at the same time. Perfect game design in my book!

Feb. 2025

6/10 Unusual game. It's mostly Traditional Roguelike with a splash of old school Gauntlet, but with *tons* of spells and items. But the difficulty inadvertently discourages experimenting with spells, which is unfortunate. It's also very unfriendly to new players, bombarding them with a massive list of spells/skills without useful filters for those lists. Pros: - Huge spell list, all with upgrades available. One of the biggest spell lists I've ever seen in a game - Creative items - Can create just about any specific "Wizard" you could possibly think of. I'm working on an Ice summon / Ice spell hybrid right now that summons Ice Phoenixes while throwing out Blizzards and such. Very fun Mehs: - Music isn't bad, but it's not quite good enough or varied enough. The simpler a game's graphics are, the more important the music is - Graphics are mostly fine, but it's kinda hard to see enemy spawners, Wizards/Liches among all the other stuff... and it's absolutely critical to know where they are - Summons are a very important part of the game. While it's possible to go without any, the *vast* majority of builds will use at least some. This can be annoying to players looking for more of a "solo wizard" fantasy Cons: - Difficulty ramps up really quick. I wish there were some difficulty options or something. It's largely a matter of wasted time in trying new combos that are instantly doomed to fail - Most choices will result in your death, so the huge spell variety is kind of an illusion - if you don't specialize enough, your damage is too low to proceed, but if you DO specialize, you'll get screwed by immune/resistant enemies everywhere. There are therefore very limited viable builds - Summons can get permanently silenced and become useless - It's rare, but some enemies and abilities leave out critical information. That can result in a permadeath - Filters for the massive list of spells/skills are *horrible*. They filter out extremely important, critical skills you need for your build. New players get screwed as they cannot filter to find critical skills - Dev seems to be completely silent. No review responses or forum post responses Some "final" thoughts after killing the boss several times: difficulty soon stops ramping up as quickly as your power does, but you'll run into some pretty ridiculous maps in the late game. Like a dozen or more enemies that swap places with you (and *only* you), dozens of ranged silence attackers, dozens of silence aura enemies, enemies that attack through walls, "immortal" enemies, enemies with infinite attack range, dozens of enemies summoning every round, etc. It can be a fine line between rewarding challenge and tedium and this gets to be a bit annoying. (Ironically, it's the huge 3x3 or whatever enemies that tend to be the easiest because you're not trying to track dozens of enemies with thrice as many abilites). If you didn't have to fight the entirety of every map at once, it would be more fun as more builds would actually be viable.

Jan. 2025

Did not like the first one, the potion economy could not let me enjoy the game.... well he fixed almost every problem I had with the core of this game and it is now a brilliant work of art. An amazing experience.

May 2024

(Review written in EA Build 2.) Short version: It's good! But Rift Wizard 1 is far more interesting. RW2 is simpler, lets you force a build, and recover faster from mistakes. You heal after every level, progression is "named trinket" based, and (tragically) you can only pick one upgrade for each spell. RW1 on the other hand compels you to improvise, make every move count, and treat everything as a vital resource. Your spell combos can seemingly get more ridiculous. Trying to just force a build will frequently work out worse than running with the cards you're dealt. I think RW2 is "Rift Wizard Arcade". Which isn't a bad thing! But unfortunately, when I want Rift Wizard, I want the RW1 experience. I might be an outlier there though. Interestingly, I went back to look at RW1 news, where the developer describes the changes to RW2, and that description is almost the polar opposite of my experience. I certainly don't know more than the dev, and I'm far from a good RW player, so maybe I'm really off base. Who knows!

May 2024

If you are even considering this game after the screenshots, you should play it

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19.50€

8.5

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Dylan White

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Dylan White

Release 31 Jan 2025

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