Wizardry Online Released on Steam

I honestly believed Wizardry Online would be too niche a title to actually see a release on a digital platform such as Steam, but evidently I was wrong as the free-to-play title has been released together with a €9,49/$9.99 Adventure Kit, 50% off the normal price of €18,99/$19.99.

Here’s the customary blurb:

Wizardry Online is a free-to-play, fantasy, hardcore MMO that takes elements from the original Wizardry games and re-imagines them as a modern MMO experience.

In Wizardry Online, everything is trying to kill you. Ferocious monsters, deadly traps and other players lie in wait for you to make even the slightest mistake. The difficulty level is insane. The dungeons are brutal. There is no auto-healing. You will earn your levels. And when you die, you die forever.

The only way to survive is to fight. Real-time reactions make the difference between a hit and a miss. If you don’t aim your spells properly, they will miss or, worse, hit another player. Skill, timing and team tactics are the only things standing between life and death. In Wizardry Online, you must play your best in every encounter because you’re always just one mistake away from oblivion.

And here’s what the adventure kit includes:

The Wizardry Adventure Kit includes:

• 6 x Book of Experience
  • Increases EXP gain by 25% for 60 Minutes
• 1 x Dimento Medal ( 7 days )
  • Increased EXP gain by 25%
  • Increased item drop rate 20%
  • Increased revival success by 10%
  • Overall Status +2
  • Access to Dimento Camps
• 2 x Talisman of Security ( 7 day )
  • Prevents an item from being looted by players or monsters for 7 days
• 5 x Red and Blue potions
  • Stackable Potions to regain HP and MP

While the Japanese art style will turn off at least some people, it might be worth giving the title a try, if only because it seems to go against many of the usual MMO trends.