The Game Census
The Wizard's Pen™ cover art

The Wizard's Pen™

PopCap Games, Inc. · Electronic Arts · 2009-02-18

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 25, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Wizard has vanished! The clues to his whereabouts are in his workbook, but all the pages are blank. You'll need the Wizard's magic pen - and your powers of perception - to guess the image on each page. The better your guess, the higher your score, and the closer you are to finding the Wizard.

The Wizard's Pen™ is a Casual game released in 2009, priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 64 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2016-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320112026Week of 2011-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-22 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.242016-11-01 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $2.492018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-06-21 — best price $1.242018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.242019-07-10 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-06-25 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $1.242023-05-01 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-27 — best price $0.992025-03-27 — best price $4.992025-06-20 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-02-10 — best price $4.992026-04-23 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualPuzzleHidden Object

Census log

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

Players also track

Don't Knock TwiceHouse of CaravanQuern - Undying ThoughtsRusty Lake: RootsPikunikuSemblanceDream AloneThe Room 4: Old Sins

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗