WIELD
THE ARCANE
Fast projectile combat with finite mana, readable attacks and elemental Wizard archetypes. Fire and Ice are only the beginning.
Retro Dark Fantasy • Magic • Treasure • Destruction
ENTER THE KEEP ✦ RECOVER THE RELICS ✦ BREAK EVERYTHING ✦ FEAR THE DARK ✦ TAKE WHAT YOU CAN ✦ GET OUT ALIVE ✦ ENTER THE KEEP ✦ RECOVER THE RELICS ✦ BREAK EVERYTHING ✦ FEAR THE DARK ✦ TAKE WHAT YOU CAN ✦ GET OUT ALIVE ✦
The game
THE CASTLE
IS THE SYSTEM.
Rooms are not scenery between fights. Light can disappear. Objects can hide valuables. Enemies occupy different parts of the keep. Treasure, resources, combat and exploration are designed to collide with each other.
WIELD
TAKE
WHAT MATTERS
Relics, gems, materials and strange trophies have identities. Find them, protect them and eventually barter them for things gold cannot buy.
GO
DEEPER
The farther the game grows, the less the keep should feel safe: hidden rooms, stronger creatures, darker corridors and reasons to risk one more chamber.
Design rule
Old-school presentation. Modern systems underneath. Low-frame pixel characters, brutal readability, reactive environments and enough systemic chaos to make every expedition tell a different story.
Enemy ecosystem
THE KEEP
IS OCCUPIED.
Skeletons were the proof. The enemy framework is expanding toward creatures with distinct jobs rather than a hallway full of reskinned hit points.
I
Melee // UndeadSkeleton Guard
The baseline threat. Pursues, corners and punishes careless movement.
II
Heavy // UndeadArmored Skeleton
Slower. Harder. Built to turn narrow passages into bad decisions.
III
Ranged // UndeadSkeleton Archer
Physical arrows, travel time, misses and cover. Pressure from across the room.
IV
Tank // UndeadRotting Dead
A slow wall of ruined flesh that becomes a serious problem when space disappears.
V
Swarm // BeastCrypt Rats
One is nothing. A pack turns your feet, your aim and your escape route against you.
VI
Flying // BeastCave Bat
Dives from above, attacks and retreats instead of politely waiting at floor level.
VII
Ambush // ConstructGargoyle
It looks like architecture until the architecture decides you're trespassing.
VIII
Arcane // CreatureArcane Slime
Slow magical pressure that turns otherwise simple spaces into places you cannot comfortably stand.
Ways to enter
ONE KEEP.
MORE THAN ONE WAR.
Wizarding Warz is being built as a foundation for multiple modes. Relic Hunt establishes the systems first; the stranger modes come after the world is ready for them.
RELIC HUNT
Recover valuable relics from different castle branches and return them to sanctuary while enemies and resources pressure the run.
THE BURDEN
Four Wizards carry fragments of a cursed statue. The closer the fragments become, the more violently the curse punishes their bearers.
THE ASCENSION
Climb until the game becomes impossible. More creatures. More damage. More pressure. Eventually the tower wins.
WIZARD WARZ
Fast magical competitive combat built on the same movement, spell and destruction foundation.
Development path
BUILD THE KEEP.
THEN OPEN THE GATES.
The project is being built system by system: first prove the loop, then fill the world with things worth finding, fighting, breaking and fearing.
01
Foundation
THE LOOP
Movement, Wizard framework, combat, damage, shell/UI, Relic Hunt, castle expansion and resource pressure establish the playable core.
Built / evolving02
The keep awakens
ENEMIES & WORLD
Enemy ecosystems, loot, visual identity, destructible environments, dynamic lighting, secrets and major Terrors turn the prototype into a place.
Current direction03
The gates open
MULTIPLAYER
Once the core game has enough depth, networking can bring cooperative expeditions, The Burden and larger Wizard conflicts into the same foundation.
Later developmentWizardingWarz.com
THE GATES
WILL OPEN.
“Take what you can. Get out alive.”
STEAM // COMING SOON
IN
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT