Steam app 1271280 · updated 13 Sep 2026, 00:06 UTC
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.
220 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
75 months, July 2020 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 134 hourly samples from 14 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
10 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
Rift Wizard was released on 1 Sep, 2021.
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21 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Aug 2020 to Mar 2024 · times in UTC
Early Access for RW2 begins today. The game is quite similar to RW1, using the most of the existing graphical assets and a slightly modified game engine. I wanted to focus on making the game better rather than newer, and on serving the…
DylanGreetings Wizards. Been a while, hasn't it? A while ago I decided to stop updating Rift Wizard 1 to devote my full energies to Rift Wizard 2. I did this because I wanted to try some things that would be wildly inappropriate for a patch…
DylanTodays build is just to fix a few bugs: Fixed an occasional crash in the spell shop Fixed an occasional crash involving nightmare aura upgrades Fixed volcanic eruption flow range upgrade not working Fixed hollow flesh hp loss upgrade not…
Patch notesGreetings Wizards! This patch focuses on making poison a more useful and reasonable mechanic in the game and correcting some longstanding balance issues. It also contains a few new high level challenges, and of course plenty of…
DylanOne last experimental change I want to test on beta: Poison now disables healing. This applies to the Wizard as well, and healing potions cannot be used while poisoned. In addition, this patch contains fixes to two longstanding moderately…
DylanA few small beta tweaks as we push towards a merge to main: Fixed a bug where click to move sometimes failed to swap the wizard with his minions Renamed Purple Flame Radiance to Voidflame Lantern (PFR was too long for the UI) Adjusted the…
DylanThis weeks patch mostly deals with code optimization: Optimized many commonly used functions Optimized threat range calculation (threat range calculation is much faster in many cases now) Pressing 't' should result in much smaller delays…
DylanPurple Flame Battery revised to Purple Flame Radiance: Whenever you cast an arcane or fire spell, gain that many turns of starcharged. Starcharged deals 6 arcane and 6 fire damage to 2 random enemies in LOS each turn it is active. Fixed…
DylanMany updates this week to the beta, patchnotes follow. Spells and skills: New skill: Purple Flame Battery Gain charge when you cast fire spells, which can be used to cast arcane spells for free. New spell: Essence Flux Swaps around all the…
DylanAnother small beta update, these will ramp up a bit next week. For now: 1) Death Cleave reworked a bit: Now simply recasts the spell on another random valid enemy target, rather than doing a weird pseudo bounce thing. No longer has any…
DylanJust one change for this beta update: Megavenom is gone, replaced by Dream Poison. Dream Poison is a level 4 Nature Dark Arcane passive skill that deals 2 arcane damage and 2 dark damage to each poisoned enemy unit each turn. (Megavenom was…
DylanGreetings Wizards! Whilst I've begun to devote more and more of my development energies to my next project, I there are still a few changes and additions I'd like to try for RW. A new beta patch with some of those things has been posted.…
DylanA few minor fixes today: - Fixed a bug that made the game freeze upon dying on XTurbo speed - Fixed a bug where XTurbo could not be selected using mouseclicks - Fixed a UI bug involving the Oculus buff tooltip - Clarified a couple tooltips…
Patch notesThe new patch is here! The focus is on a new school of magic and the modding system- read on for full details. New school of magic: Metal! Metal magic is a small school, comparable in size to chaos or words. Most Metal spells have other…
DylanThe other half of this weeks changes are all bug and crash fixes as we move towards pushing modding and metal magic to the masses: Fixed a bug where tags were just totally broken and caused all sorts of mayhem especially when a game was…
DylanAdded new animation speed: TurboX. This is the fastest speed I can think of: the game will attempt to stuff everything that happens between each player turn into 1 frame. May cause framerate dips. Potentially useful for very slow moving…
DylanA few fixes and one highly requested feature, getting close to a launchable patch now: New hotkeys: PGUP/PGDN now show descriptions of a highlighted spells upgrades Lightning Spire now uses radius instead of minion range (it was a grey area…
DylanJust two changes really: 1) Lightning Spire reworked- No longer arcs lightning at metallic units. Instead, now shoots lightning at up to 4 nearby enemies each turn (upgradable to shoot at more of course- and also upgradable to shoot through…
DylanA few small balance and modding changes to the beta: Modding: Game now checks that all elements of the spell list are actually spells before launch (ah typ) A few balance changes: Mercurize Initial max charges 8->6 Lightnign Spire Now the…
DylanMain project this week was the modding system. Rift Wizard now loads and executes all mods in the mods folder- see the example for details. To run a mod, there must be a folder with a python script whos name is the same as the folder…
DylanA few changes to the beta branch today: New Spell: Lightning Spire. Summons a stationary metallic unit which shoots lightning at random metallic units. New Shrine: Razor Shrine. Metallic only. Sends out three razor blades at random units in…
DylanGreetings Wizards! Regular development has resumed, and the beginnings of december's Metal Magic patch are now playable on the beta branch. It is a highly incomplete work in progress. There's lots of stuff I want play around with and put…
DylanHello Everyone! Today I wanted to share my thoughts with the community on the present and future of Rift Wizard. First of all, launch was a great success which far surpassed my expectations. So, thank you for that- thanks for all the…
Dylan-Fixed crash involving white candle shrine + reincarnating minions -Fixed a weird softlock that could occur when you used a portal under a web tile
Patch notesJust a few more bugfixes and crashfixes: - Fixed iceball always having icecrush upgrade for free - Fixed tundra shrine crashing the game when put on ice phoenix - Fixed a rare void tango mordred crash
Patch notesJust a quick fix to a few really annoying issues: -Fixed crash that sometimes occurred upon winning -Fixed text alignment issue that sometimes occured upon winning
Patch notes- Fixed crash that occurred when siege engineers could not find a valid location to place a new siege machine - Fixed some tooltip typos
Patch notesGood morning Wizards. I'm proud to announce that Rift Wizard is now a full fledged, launched game! Tell your friends! Even the ones that don't play obscure indie early access roguelikes! With launch comes a big patch of course. This patch…
4go10 B3asTBeta Branch Update: I'm pretty happy with game balance right now, wanting to hold off on messing with that (or adding spells/upgrades which mess with it indirectly) until launch. So this week is just a few bug fixes: Fixed some shrines not…
Patch notesDear Wizards! A status update on the upcoming one-point-oh release. Next patch will launch September 1st. This patch will mark Rift Wizard's graduation from Early Access into Full Launch. What does this mean? It means I no longer consider…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Beta Branch Update: Some boss adjustments- Golden Bull -> Minos, The Golden Bull Titan Immortal -> Chronos, Titan Immortal Aesir Immortal -> Odin, Aesir Immortal Titan Immortal - now has a 9 radius 2 damage fire aura Aesir Immortal - now…
Patch notesBeta Branch Update: Added new high level bosses: Golden Bull - A super resilient, high damage minotaur Titan Immortal - A giant, reincarnating titan with a fireball to match Aesir Immortal - A giant, reincarnating aesir with chain lightning…
Patch notesBeta Branch Update: Todays update is quite small, and includes only a few fixes to typos (including, notably, Arcane Accounting's description being corrected from being totally wrong to being accurate) and a crash fix. Look forward to new…
Patch notesBeta Branch Update: All orbs have been rebalanced, with the intent of making seraing orb less dominant and making other orbs more viable: Void Orb health 8->15, now has 3 Shields Searing Orb max charges 4->3 Searing Orb damage upgrade…
Patch notesBeta Branch Update: Added bestiary UI (experimental) Conflaguration Shrine now works on minions Firefly shrine now cannot be applied to conj spells (it never worked on them anyway) Flame Burst Melting flame now also melts walls adjacent to…
Patch notesBeta Branch Update: Added 7 new shrines: Sunlight Shrine (Nature/Fire/Holy) Whenever this spell deals damage to an enemy unit, all allied minions in line of sight of the damaged unit are healed for half that much damage. Conflagration…
Patch notesAs full launch approaches, I'm going to try to get back into the habit of doing weekly Friday patches. I'm also going to be posting the notes on steam instead of just discord. Note: These changes are beta only. This means: 1) You won't see…
Patch notesGood afternoon Wizards! We are very close to the full release of Rift Wizard. Full launch is a very exciting event for me. It is the culmination of many years of work, and an opportunity to showcase the game to a much broader audience. This…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Hello again Wizards! This update focuses on the challenge system, adding a plethora of outlandishly difficult new game modes to test your wizarding abilities against. Full notes follow. Game Modes: Added Archmage Trials. Trials have various…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Greetings Wizards! Its been a while since the last roadmap update, so lets take a look at where we are: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37379208/0d25d311c8af89b50170ec7e310cd038cb4561e9.png All of these features are related. They will all serve the same…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Some small fixes today: Fixed Bright Flame upgrade not working Fixed Void Beam not working through walls Fixed Orb control not working Cantrip cascade can now cast spells even if they are out of range, but cannot cast non sorcery spells.
Patch notesGreetings Wizards! This patch focuses on spell upgrades, with a few significant gameplay features as well, and a bit of new content sprinkled in as well. Read on: General Gameplay: Added combat log UI to game. Press m to open it. Hopefully…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Greetings Wizards, and happy new year! I've been thinking hard these past few weeks about exactly what to do next, and I've made some updates to the roadmap. Here they are…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Hello Wizards! Today is the launch of the Enshrinement 2 patch. With enshrinement, the balance of the game shifted tremendously. Mostly it was much better, but there was still lots of polish I wanted to do to get the game into a nice state…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Hello Wizards! I want to give everyone an update on where Rift Wizard development is, and where it will be going. Over the past few months I've released two big patches. These patches contained huge changes to game structure and game…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~The Enshrinement update is now live. Shrine changes: Shrines are the main focus of this update, which now work totally differently. Each spell can now be enhanced by only one shrine, and each shrine is now much more powerful and…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Greetings Wizards! Another roadmap update today. Firstly: Patch 2, "Enshrinement", will be launching this Wednesday, Nov 25th. Here's an updated view of the EA Roadmap…
~ xX Dy Lan Xx ~Hello Community! Today I wanted to share some of my plans for the future of Rift Wizard. The roadmap has been updated: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37379208/6d87d0e21a2e13fe3663e5c75b1e69242ff22b34.png Patch 2 is all about build variety and depth. I…
Dylan WhiteHello! Today marks the launch of Menagerie, the first early access patch for Rift Wizard. Note: saves from old versions of the game are incompatible with new versions of the game. If you wish to finsh up an old run, set your branch to…
Dylan WhiteHello Community! Today I wanted to share some of my plans for the future of Rift Wizard. Heres the current roadmap for Rift Wizard's journey from early access to full launch…
Dylan WhiteWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Fullscreen | RiftWizard\RiftWizard.exe | windows 64 | ||
| Windowed | RiftWizard\RiftWizard.exe | windowed | windows 64 | |
| maclaunch | RiftWizard/mac_launch.py | macos | branch macdev | |
| Fullscreen (Native Resolution) | RiftWizard\RiftWizard.exe | native_res | windows 64 |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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