Games like Rift Wizard
If Rift Wizard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rift Wizard 2, Zorbus and Path of Achra — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Rift Wizard: 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.
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Rift Wizard 2
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Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard.
Top pick for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Rift Wizard 2 is a tough as nails traditional roguelike wizard simulator. You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must journey through the cosmos to defeat his nemesis. Each run, you'll build a unique repertoire of spells, passive skills, and magical artifacts.
Zorbus
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rift Wizard.
Second-strongest match for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard.
Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.
Path of Achra
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard.
Third-strongest match for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Rift Wizard.
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
Cogmind
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Ranked #4 for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Caves of Qud
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Shares a contemplative mood with Rift Wizard.
Ranked #5 for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Rogue Fable III
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Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard.
Ranked #6 for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.
MidBoss
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Shares a contemplative mood with Rift Wizard.
Ranked #7 for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Kill your enemies, possess their bodies, and take their abilities as your own in this turn-based procedurally generated death labyrinth.
Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rift Wizard.
Ranked #8 for Rift Wizard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard.
Explore randomly generated content and experience the thrill of a classic tactical turn-based rogue-like RPG! Choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique abilities and strengths. Get ready for an unforgettable journey of strategy, skill, and discovery.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rift Wizard at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rift Wizard.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rift Wizard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Rift Wizard
- Does Rift Wizard work on Steam Deck?
- Rift Wizard is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Rift Wizard cost?
- Rift Wizard is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rift Wizard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rift Wizard are Rift Wizard 2, Zorbus, Path of Achra.
- Who developed Rift Wizard?
- Rift Wizard was developed by Dylan White.
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