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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Digital Eclipse · 2024-05-23

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ActionRPG

Franchise: Wizardry · Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 15, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 23, 2024 (PlayStation 5), May 23, 2024 (PlayStation 4), May 23, 2024 (Xbox One), May 23, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), May 23, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a full 3D remake of the first game in the legendary Wizardry series of RPGs.

30
playing now
77%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$34.99
steam price (US)

30 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,241 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$12.25-65%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.25-65%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.42 at GameBillet (2026-04-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 86 of 127 observed days · $1.83 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

43172026-08-11 19:00 — 30 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 27 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 32 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 25 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 30 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 42 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 41 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 30 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 36 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 30 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 34 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 33 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 32 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 18 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 32 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 34 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 34 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 35 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 38 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 30 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 31 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 17 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 30 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 41 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 30 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$10.492023-09-152026-08-302023-09-15 — best price $25.192023-11-29 — best price $29.992024-02-15 — best price $23.992024-07-11 — best price $34.992024-09-25 — best price $26.242024-11-26 — best price $24.492024-12-26 — best price $34.992025-01-14 — best price $31.142025-02-13 — best price $20.992025-03-19 — best price $19.242025-04-09 — best price $17.212025-04-25 — best price $34.992025-05-22 — best price $19.242025-06-18 — best price $17.492025-07-13 — best price $29.022025-07-27 — best price $34.992025-08-19 — best price $15.572025-09-06 — best price $17.502025-09-20 — best price $15.722025-10-07 — best price $15.572025-11-03 — best price $34.992025-11-13 — best price $15.742025-11-25 — best price $15.742025-12-23 — best price $12.882026-01-13 — best price $29.392026-02-04 — best price $34.992026-03-09 — best price $12.052026-03-27 — best price $12.292026-05-01 — best price $12.072026-05-30 — best price $34.992026-06-17 — best price $12.252026-07-22 — best price $34.992026-08-21 — best price $28.992026-08-30 — best price $12.25
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
81.3%
earned "It's All Down From Here"
14.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7492%28
PS5 (PlayStation)59317%29
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3577%28
Switch (Nintendo)490%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGCRPGDarkMagicDemonsDragonsFantasyWerewolvesExplorationDark Fantasy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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