Wizards similar games & best alternatives

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Wizards

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable • 2021

Should you play it?

Artillery tactics games are back! Grab some friends and get ready for an all out Wizard war! Create your own way of play with tons of unique spells to choose from. With randomly generated terrain and unlimited combinations, you'll never know what will happen next. Completely free to play.

What works

  • Nostalgic recreation of arcanists
  • Deep strategic gameplay with many spells
  • Free to play with no pay-to-win
  • Active developer community and updates
  • Fun multiplayer with friends

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base causing matchmaking delays
  • Some bugs and clunky controls reported
  • Limited maps and content in early access
  • Spell balance issues and meta concerns
  • Lack of tutorial and ui polish

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Shard Squad

  • Temtem

  • Guild Wars® Reforged

  • Super Animal Royale

  • Bounty of One

  • Last Train Outta' Wormtown

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Wizards but with less narrative immersion

  • J-Jump Arena

  • Transformice

  • Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

  • Ultimate Chicken Horse

  • Heave Ho

  • Just Act Natural

Less competitive

Games that feels like Wizards but with less competition against others

  • Primal Planet

  • Astral Ascent

  • Planet Centauri

  • LORT

  • Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

  • The Genesis Project

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising

  • BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

  • Granblue Fantasy: Versus

  • River City Girls

  • GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Wizards. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Wizards. These titles are not in What to play next.

Wizards: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026