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Life of a Wizard

Hosted Games · 2017-03-17

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Mar 17, 2017 (Linux), Feb 27, 2013 (iOS), Mar 17, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 17, 2017 (Mac)

Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.

81%
positive of 67 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 16,200 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–4.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 67 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.97 at Steam (2019-11-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$1.972017-03-182026-07-092017-03-18 — best price $2.992017-06-22 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-06-22 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-06-25 — best price $2.992019-07-11 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $2.992021-02-15 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-01-05 — best price $2.992023-02-23 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $2.992023-12-21 — best price $2.992024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-06-28 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-20 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieAdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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