Games like Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
If Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is your kind of game, the closest matches are Golel, Monsters of Mican and Wizardry: The Five Ordeals — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging tactical combat, challenging and dark. 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.
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Golel
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Top pick for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Immerse yourself in the disturbing world of a first-person, Dungeon Crawler, Golel. Leverage the environment to your advantage, drop a bookshelf on an enemy, or kick them into a pit. Golel brings innovation to turn-based combat.
Monsters of Mican
WHY THIS
Shares party management, dungeon crawling and retro with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Second-strongest match for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
A whimsical party-based first person turn-based dungeon crawler RPG. Discover the origin of Monsters in Mican as you explore unique handcrafted dungeons, battle hundreds of diverse monsters, learn dozens of spells, and find tons of secrets and loot!
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
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Shares a punishing mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Third-strongest match for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Welcome to the world of dungeon crawling! The classic dungeon crawler released back in 2006, returns to Steam with improved UI and more.
Into the Abyss
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Ranked #4 for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
You are Sonja, a student of necromancy fighting to rid the world of a terrible illness that's taking the lives of all mankind. Fight alongside a zombie, a witch and even death in this exciting journey of persistence, friendship and determination!
Paper Sorcerer
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Shares a retro mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Ranked #5 for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.
A Quest That Became Legend
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Shares a retro mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Ranked #6 for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
A Quest That Became Legend is a game inspired by old school RPG classics, with turn based combat and an open world environment. Set out on an epic quest to defeat the dark conjurers and save your world from destruction.
The Demon Rush: Legends Corrupt
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Ranked #7 for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
The Demon Rush: Legends Corrupt is an action RPG with an ensemble cast and multiple modes (Story Mode, Endless Dungeon, Onslaught, Conquest, Heist, Boulderball, Naval Conquest, Side Stories, RopeRange, Prison Break, Summoner's Onslaught and Counterintelligence).
Midnight's Curse
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Ranked #8 for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Join Luna together with Rez the Werewolf, Frankie the Frankenstein and Mary the Hunter against her former partner Dracula, who is set out to enslave humankind in act of revenge by calling upon the Blood Moon, his most evil ritual.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
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Shares class switching and a dark mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Reviewers of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Reviewers of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Reviewers of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis is a free-to-play action MMO. Join players around the world to explore the planet Halpha and fight in epic battles as ARKS Defenders! Unleash your imagination with our ultimate character creation experience and creative spaces to create your own phantasy.
Arcis Ultima
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Reviewers of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Player finds himself in the war between human race and the invading creatures. You must train yourself, get the very best equipment, recall your past and help human efforts. Otherwise; as the time passes, you may find yourself in a hopeless situation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~71% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~43% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~71% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~57% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~43% under Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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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 Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
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.
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Moonring
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Disney•Pixar Toy Story 3 Complete Edition
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Announced upcoming release from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Reopen the toy chest and saddle up as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie in Toy Story 3 Complete Edition, a 3D adventure based on the hit 2010 animated film, Toy Story 3. Play through authentic movie moments in Story Mode, or drop into the wild west sandbox of Woody’s Roundup in Toy Box Mode.
Disney•Pixar Toy Story: Retro Roundup!
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Announced upcoming release from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Step back into Andy’s room with Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and more classic characters in Toy Story: Retro Roundup! This five-game collection features four Toy Story titles and A Bug’s Life. All the games have been upgraded with quality-of-life improvements and behind-the-scenes content.
Barbie™ Rewind
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Announced upcoming release from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Decorate the DreamHouse™ through the decades, while playing classic Barbie games. In Barbie™ Rewind, Barbie invites you into her cozy, creative world and entrusts you to customize her DreamHouse. Barbie also left you her game collection, so you can revisit your favorite Barbie video games.
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Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
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Shares tactical positioning and a nostalgic mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Celebrate Street Fighter’s historic legacy with the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. In this collection of 12 Street Fighter games, four groundbreaking titles let you hop online and relive the arcade experience through the online Arcade Mode or play with friends.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
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Shares save system and retro with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Step into the arena and choose your fighter! Experience the legendary origins of Mortal Kombat with the iconic arcade classics that started it all—alongside a curated selection of most-loved home versions and rare, fan-favorite releases—a celebration of the franchise’s groundbreaking legacy.
The Disney Afternoon Collection
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Shares a retro mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Starring a cast of beloved Disney characters, The Disney Afternoon Collection takes you back to a golden era of gaming and afternoons filled with adventure. All six classic games feature new and improved visuals and include filtering options that replicate a retro look and feel.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
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Shares a retro mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection contains thirteen prior released classic games. This collection is a great place for gamers to experience these popular titles on Steam.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind
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Shares character progression and retro with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, the team faces off against a robotic reincarnation of the Power Rangers' long-time nemesis. Robo Rita has conjured a portal to send herself back in time so she can finally vanquish the Power Rangers by forming an alliance with her younger self.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games.
Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION
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Shares turn based combat and retro with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares RPG with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION is packed with classic Yu-Gi-Oh! games from the very early days of Dueling — bursting with retro RPGs and strategic card games with beloved anime characters!
Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Shares retro with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Another title from Digital Eclipse, the studio behind Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Shares Action with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Celebrate 30 years of Rayman with the definitive edition of the platforming classic, featuring 5 versions, 120+ extra levels, and an exclusive documentary on the creation of the limbless hero.
Frequently asked about Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
- Does Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord run on Steam Deck?
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cost?
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord are Golel, Monsters of Mican, Wizardry: The Five Ordeals.
- Who developed Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord?
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Digital Eclipse, Atari.
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