Rift Wizard
Released Sep 2021
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.
91% positive · 1,057 reviews
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All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
Rift Wizard launched out of Early Access on September 1, 2021. Following launch, the developer (Dylan White) released a series of post-launch patches adding new content — most notably the Metal Magic school update in December 2021, a Spring Cleaning balance and content patch in April 2022, and a final bug-fix build in May 2022.
On October 30, 2023, the developer publicly announced that he had stopped updating Rift Wizard 1 to focus entirely on Rift Wizard 2, explicitly stating: "A while ago I decided to stop updating Rift Wizard 1 to devote my full energies to Rift Wizard 2." This is a direct developer statement that active development on Rift Wizard 1 has concluded. Rift Wizard 2 then launched into Early Access on March 25, 2024 as the successor game.
There are no unreleased DLC items listed for Rift Wizard 1, no outstanding content commitments, and no post-2022 updates of any kind. The game is complete as a standalone product, with the developer having moved on to its successor.
Evidence
Rift Wizard 2 launched into Early Access, confirming the developer's full focus has shifted to the sequel
Developer explicitly states he stopped updating Rift Wizard 1 to devote full attention to Rift Wizard 2, confirming no further development on the original game
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Dylan White
Achievements
21
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails retro fantasy roguelike emphasizing combat and character building.
You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must rebuild his spellbook and slay his rival.
The game consists of 25 randomly generated levels, each filled with procedurally generated challenges that will test your creativity and strategic thinking abilities.
Rift Wizard Features:
- Open ended character advancement with deep synergies and spell interactions
- Huge library of spells and passive skills to build from
- Low randomness, high player agency
- Diverse and varied monster design
- High difficulty, permadeath, limited resources
- Crisp 1990s retro RPG aesthetics
Rift Wizard is inspired by classics such as Nethack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue, and Tales of Maj'Eyal, but pushes the genre in a more strategic, combat focused direction. In some ways it is closer to a board game than an RPG. There isn't much plot or exploration in Rift Wizard- just epic wizard battles and deep buildcraft from start to finish.
I'm creating Rift Wizard because I want to push the boundaries of the genre. I want to build a deep and challenging roguelike worth exploring for a thousand hours or more. A game with hundreds of potential strategies to try. A game where each run is a novel and exciting intellectual challenge. A game that inspires the player to be crafty, creative, and brilliant.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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