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Wizard with a Gun
Developer Galvanic Games
Wizard with a Gun is a 2023 twin-stick shooter video game developed by Galvanic Games and published by Devolver Digital. It includes elements of survival games, such as collecting resources and base-building. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
271 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
141 positive · 51 negative
95% range 67–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 141 | 51 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 20 | 1 | 49 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,956 of 2,384 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
75% recommend · 144 yes, 49 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 193 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,232 of 4,022 positive).
Players praise the unique art style and fun gameplay loop, though some find it repetitive. [1][2][3] Several reviewers note the game feels incomplete or has clunky mechanics. [4][5][6] Many recommend it for co-op play and when on sale. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [5]
You're a wizard. You have a gun. If only it was fun. Wizard with a Gun (WWAG) is an isometric, procedurally-generated shooter with inventory management and time crunch to deal with. The gameplay loop is crafting some bullets for your guns, cracking open a time portal which randomly generates a world, hopping in, killing everything you see (including random plants and buildings), fighting an elite mob for a widget …
- [1]
IMPORTANT: THE DEVS DID NOT ABANDON THE GAME. Unfortunately they had to give up on the project and end the team, as the profits were not high enough for them to keep going. You will notice that there are parts of the game that clearly point to more content that was to come, but that does not mean, in any way, that the game is incomplete. It feels more like a cliff hanger. Anyway, I'll leave my review below. Great …
- [4]
Worth buying if it's under 10$. Art style is great, gameplay loop is fine: not great, not bad. Feels like chore when you reach almost the end of the game. Biggest flaws are: - Game is pretty clunky. Doesn't feel great with mouse, but doesn't feel good with a gamepad either. - For me at least, unplayable without a mod that allows you to construct in base without having to run to one of the 20+ chests for mats. - The …
- [3]
Legitimately, the game is a work of passion. The art direction is unique and breath of fresh air, the gameplay loop is dynamic and ever changing just enough to keep you on your toes and never feels stale or bleh. The crafting and progression serve as just another reason to keep engaging and the bosses are difficult enough to actually make you plan out a strategy and think carefully about your gun choices. The Devs …
- [2]
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ …
Summarised from 34 of the 270 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Wizard with a Gun sits at 73% positive across 192 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Wizard with a Gun received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. PC Gamer said that while it "expand[s] on the groundwork" of Enter the Gungeon, the combat "feels unpolished". They said the "tight gameplay loop" of incremental progress toward better loot and crafted weapons kept them "persistently engaged", though. IGN called it "an entertaining co-op action game" but said that the cooperative multiplayer made the game a bit too easy given how much bonus time could be harvested from the increased number of chaos monsters. They also found some of the magic bullets to be uninteresting or underpowered, and they called the ending "an extremely…
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Reactions
60 of 271 · most liked firstRemember game Wizard with a Gun? Me and @naet.bsky.social had a lot of fun playing it couple years ago #SFW #Furry #Furryart #OC #Anthro
positive · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Game Catalog | October 2025 ▪️Silent Hill 2 ▪️Until Dawn (Remake) ▪️Yakuza: Like a Dragon ▪️V Rising ▪️As Dusk Falls ▪️Wizard with a Gun ▪️Poppy Playtime: Chapter 1 PS Plus Premium ▪️Tekken 3 ➡️ blog.playstation.com/2025/10/15/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Having achievements that can only be unlocked if you're the host in a multiplayer game is dumb.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You're a wizard. You have a gun. If only it was fun. Wizard with a Gun (WWAG) is an isometric, procedurally-generated shooter with inventory management and time crunch to deal with. The gameplay loop is crafting some bullets for your guns, cracking open a time portal which randomly generates a world, hopping in, killing everything you see (including random plants and buildings), fighting an elite mob for a widget that progresses the time portal, and then running home so you don't lose…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IMPORTANT: THE DEVS DID NOT ABANDON THE GAME. Unfortunately they had to give up on the project and end the team, as the profits were not high enough for them to keep going. You will notice that there are parts of the game that clearly point to more content that was to come, but that does not mean, in any way, that the game is incomplete. It feels more like a cliff hanger. Anyway, I'll leave my review below. Great game, super fun, lots of guns, many combinations of spells. I waited patiently…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi! I'm Rachel! I wrote the script and composed music for 12 Labors, an indie game about working your way to an apology I've also composed for some indie games, played sax on some others, dome VO for still more, and sang on Wizard with a Gun (Also I wrote the Nuka-World jingle for Fallout 4)
neutral · AI labelView post →In a game where death means losing everything you've got in your inventory, no enemy should have a passive aura that fully stun-locks you, so the enemy can saunter up and one-hit kill you. Not even an option to break out of the stun. You get to put your controls down, sit back, and watch yourself (eventually) die. It's not fun, and it's not challenging. You're no allowed a reaction, so what challenge could possibly exist? The only thing fights like this challenge is your patience, and I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So yeah, I've got to slap a "Don't Recommend" on this one, and it properly kills me to do it. There's bits of this game I genuinely love - I've been thinking about it for ages, actually - but in the end, I put the controller down and thought, "Well, that was a bit disappointing, wasn't it?" Everyone bangs on about quitting after the first few hours because the core loop is shorter than a politician's memory, and yeah, fair enough. Unless you're absolutely rubbish at games - which you won't be,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games like this baffle me. How does a game end up with great art and music, but bad gameplay? Shouldn't designing a killer core gameplay loop be the first and foremost design focus? Very bland and disappointing gameplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike on the occasions I get to do game audio. I've scored three indies, played sax for Cuisineer, sang for Wizard with a Gun others, and written songs for Fallout 4: Nuka-World and some more. Games work is sporadic but I love it 💖
neutral · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coke and Indigo playing Wizard With A Gun together! Game is fun and very cute btw Try it! #wizardwithagun #furryart
positive · AI labelView post →🔰SHREDVIEW🔰 - From someone who actually plays and finishes the games before reviewing. NOTE: If you like my work, please check out the rest of my reviews, I put a lot of work in these to offer the best overall description of what you’re up against. Thank you in advance! https://steamcommunity.com/id/cervusrex/recommended/ 🔷 ABOUT THE GAME & LORE 🔷 Created by the same genius concept behind “Cult of the Lamb”, Wizard With a Gun answers the real important “what if’s”: What if Hogwarts had…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Around Oct 2023 I got to play Wizard with a Gun. Again, thank you for making a great game. (Repost FA)
positive · AI labelView post →Venba Tinykin Tchia Steam World Dig 2 Until Then White Night Withering Rooms OFK Wizard With a Gun Crypt of the Necromancer The Artful Escape After Love EP Akimbot 1000 X Resist Book Walker Darkwood Fall Guys Goodbye Volcano High Lil Gator Game Blue Prince Ender Lilies The Last Campfire Moonlighter
neutral · AI labelView post →The tutorial and intro had me very interested but sadly, that did not last. Pros: -Style and visuals are very unique while being interesting. Also easy on the eyes. -Story and NPCs are not bad at all. Had me interested to explore and learn more. -Very interesting crafting and building ideas that was relatively simple. Cons: -Due to the angle of the camera in relative to your character. It can be rather annoying trying to hit something you can see, but the camera makes it hard to judge on how…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, i have next to no idea what this game is all about. But why don´t we give it a try anyways, aye? Let´s get into "Wizard with a Gun"! www.twitch.tv/capitanquill
neutral · AI labelView post →Wizard with a Gun is an open-world rogue-like shooter; owning visual semblance to the style of Don’t Starve, and functional likeness to rogue-likes like Enter the Gungeon. You begin your journey as your mage ship crash-lands in a mysterious dimension called the Shatter, whereas the story calls upon you find and assemble a band of powerful wizards to prevent the endtimes of the world, at the hands of all-consuming Chaos. The gameplay loop and the subsequent story revolve around traversing a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Instead of sharing my wrapped i kinda wanna talk both about my own year in music and about stuff I've enjoyed from others This year I got to sing on a finale song from Wizard with a Gun for @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social that ties a bow on the game, the world, and its music
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, this game had good artist leader but no good game designer Wizards with guns - should it give me feeling with more magic-like and less just shooter like? Should. And it didn't. Plot is generic and no reward from world opening is given. Thats fking thing with chests when you cannot open that one you see highlighted, thats annoying as hell. First you are excited to open new stations for craft, and then... nothing can be explored during the game, you just need tons of resources for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wizard With a Gun isn’t in here but it should be because there’s a nonbinary NPC in game and several trans devs that made it!
neutral · AI labelView post →When I sang on Wizard with a Gun I got to step into a robust, active community that Mads was building around that game It's been over a year, maybe two since we had to quit working on WizGun and I STILL get tagged in that Discord by those fans. It is ACTIVE Mads can build a community. A real one
neutral · AI labelView post →After 7 hours, I've seen everything this game has to offer. You make guns, and level them up, and that's ... kind of it? There is a story, and lore, and base-building, but the meat of the game, that core loop, runs out oh so very quickly. While I've only reached the second biome in the game, there's nothing left to drive me on to the rest. More of the same guns and same bullets and same-yet-slightly-different enemies? It's ... nah.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't love this game. I want to. I love the concept. I hate the implementation. all of the "crafting" stuff is kind of dropped on you in the very beginning. Many of the machines can use the same materials but there's not a way to organize to make that efficient, at last in the beginning making it all feel very overwhelming. If you enjoy complicated variable systems this might be right up your alley
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →no cross progression, only for host prog very grindy in terms of building and gathering materials slow paced game but the game rushes you by giving you only a small timer to explore the world. constant connection issues
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BURIED TREASURES #20: Wizard With A Gun! This game looks like the pre-sequel to Enter the Gungeon mixed with a little bit of Don't Starve! www.twitch.tv/lavenderbloo... [ #PNGTuber #vtuber #transvtuber #smallstreamer #twitchaffiliate ]
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey everyone! I’m beyond excited to announce that we’re going live on Twitch for our very first gameplay! We’ll be diving into a game called Wizard with a Gun, and I can’t wait to see what it’s all about! Let’s get this party started #gameplay #vtuber #twitchstreamer #LGBTQIA #WizardwithaGun
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, just as a heads up, Wizard With A Gun got a 4 person multiplayer!!! Absolutely please check out this banger of a game. The company who made it is really awesome and poured their heart into this game. store.steampowered.com/app/1150530/...
positive · AI labelView post →[URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware]Spyware Warning!This game acts as spyware and performs personal data gathering and transmission. There's no immediate apparent way to opt out. This is completely unethical and reprehensible. Gamers must be aware of the dangers of installing this harmful software and should avoid this completely. This Nintendo Switch game sits between top-down console shooter and grind-heavy Diablo ripoff, and speaking of ripoffs, I suppose the developers think they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the most mid games I've ever played. bland inoffensive yet overdone designs on everything. enemies aren't interesting to fight and it doesn't scale the difficulty either in any interesting way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It really is a shame about the game studio.... :/ The game is really fun, i enjoyed the gameplay and the diverse amount of variation you get between weapons, bounty weapons, bullet types.... there's really a lot in there and it feels really good to try out the system. There are some things that could have use some polishing about the pace, but it's nothing major. The game is really enjoyable.... what's most, it has a lot of potential for growth and more content, again it is a real shame…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is alright, but I grew tired of it after a few runs. I don't know that survival is the best description of it, since the only place you really have time to build and craft at is in the safe area. Its about as survival as a games like Hades or CoD, if the only metric for survival is not dying. Roguelite is very much a better genre for it. It might be more fun with more people, but I can't justify asking my friends to pay 25 bucks to play with me, and i don't like it enough to buy it for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing another new cozy game, Moonstone Island! And, after that, gonna be swapping to WIZARD WITH A GUN from Galvanic Games (thanks so much for the key)! It's gonna be a fun night, let's do this! twitch.tv/ligerzero_ga...
neutral · AI labelView post →Gave it a chance multiple times but never got hooked. Overall the game feels unfinished down to those little things like absense of portal transitions, character pointing a gun in a different direction from where you aim.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played barely over an hour and I think this game is really fun. Sadly one very simple missing feature makes this game unplayable for me: there is no brightness control. I like to play games on my handheld in the sun and this game is perfekt for this. Except that I can’t see ♥♥♥♥. The Game is dark. Very dark. Everything in the environment is brown, black and grey. It also has A LOT of obstacles on the map like grey rocks and walls, dark brown tree trunks and wooden walls or the floor is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →started playing with 0 expectations, im still in the second boss and loving it. crazy game, really addictive lots of stuff to do and its amazing! great mixture between dont starve together and cult of the lamb.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Going full Wizard With A Gun* today (in honor of too many friends working on that lovely indie game) *not real guns, not scaring children with toy guns, fear not!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tried to push myself through this one but too many quality of life factors missing, tedious grinds, and just overall mediocre gameplay forced me to stop.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately this game is very mid. Slow, boring. Great art direction, cool concept. Just boring execution.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I genuinely enjoyed 100%ing this game, and that says a lot coming from a lazy person.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely an enjoyable experience that clearly had some love put into it. The game is an interesting mix of extraction, survival, and a nice variety of bullets to solve your problems. The negatives? I wish there was a greater variety of powders/synergies to be found and harder difficulties are definitely not well done. Overall, worth your time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I could enjoy this game, I really could. But I just cant. The world, the trailer, the premise, the music, its all amazing but the game just isnt fun. It feels repetitive and quite boring. There just isnt enough to justify the cost.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty neat i guess, but that novelty wears off pretty quick. Becauase you have no i-frames when taking damage, there has been several times i go from full health to dead pretty much instantly. The timer doesn't feel like it adds an difficulty and just feel tedious, especially on higher difficulties. Also many of the bullets feel kinda useless, but that may be due to playing only singleplayer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worth buying if it's under 10$. Art style is great, gameplay loop is fine: not great, not bad. Feels like chore when you reach almost the end of the game. Biggest flaws are: - Game is pretty clunky. Doesn't feel great with mouse, but doesn't feel good with a gamepad either. - For me at least, unplayable without a mod that allows you to construct in base without having to run to one of the 20+ chests for mats. - The mechanics are pretty difficult to understand initially. 6.5/10 game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my Wizard with a gun from the hit game Wizard with a Gun i love him so much
positive · AI labelView post →Another review from me at @ign.bsky.social. Played Wizard with a Gun. Excellent title, very ok game that's clearly not finished www.ign.com/articles/wiz...
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is fun, and presents just enough gameplay to be entertaining for a playthrough or two, or a few dozens of hours. But it doesn't come close to other popular games in Devolver Digital's assets – it feels more like a tablet game. And a pretty raw one too, it has the same problems most Unity Engine games do. I'd recommend getting it when it's on sale, but don't get carried away by the trailer, it's a much more linear experience than what'd you expect from other "proper wizard sandboxes".
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't starve if it was fun and didn't suck and wasn't actively horrible to play. Reminds me a bit of darkwood.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We still miss you, Galvantic. Devolver should've let you cook.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice weird game, not for everyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool style and visuals, but the gameplay got repetative too quickly for my liking.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is garbage , but I really , really hate games that put you on a timer and resets all of the time , so maybe that's on me . It feels like the game has a great fun world for you to explore , but then punishes you for exploring if you don't go fast enough . Screw you game .
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First time playing Wizard with a Gun! 🔫✨ I have no idea what’s about to happen, but I’ve had my eye on this game for a while let’s finally check it out! 🧙♂️ You’re a wizard, Harry! Come join the party! ↪️ Link: www.twitch.tv/atlas_chroma
neutral · AI labelView post →This game dev post on Wizard with a Gun's use of deterministic lockstep is super niche, but I hope it helps someone someday. And it's weird that I'm using quite a bit of the knowledge in the new gig. straypixels.net/wwag-diverge...
neutral · AI labelView post →Suppose I should post something here eventually, so here, have my wizard from Wizard With A Gun. The game that has consumed part of my life the past couple days. Gonna call her Prima. She wanted to be a warlock, but upon finding poison takes too long to kill, dipped into other gunomancy disciplines.
positive · AI labelView post →There are a lot of games that bolt on a co-op mode despite the fact that the game in question doesn’t even benefit from it. Wizard with a gun is not that type of game - it is of a much more rare breed where the addition of co-op makes the game worse. So how do they achieve it? Despite the name, you are not a wizard - you have no spells, you are just shooting a gun with spicy ammo and can’t even blink to dodge projectiles - you roll in the lamest way possible, often not even far enough to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a wonderful night playing some tough games! I died so much in Wizard with a Gun! No Progress in Wallachia, that game hard. I made good progress in Vernal Edge too! Thanks for being there and twitch.tv/tripledeek for the raid! We sailed to @heyubabyblu.bsky.social for Clair Obscure!
neutral · AI labelView post →i may be out of mana, but im not out of options
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is more like an extraction shooter than a roguelike. (Or are extraction shooters roguelikes?) Nevertheless, it shows itself more complex than it actually is, and it is much better in co-op than solo, but I had my fun with it, so thumbs up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not fun at all, super hard to understand how the game works and how to play it. It just throws you right into the game and doesnt teach you properly and your just left being frustrated, confused, not understanding how the game works and probably asking for a refund at that point. Movement is also whack I legit hate every single part about this game. Not even an hour into it and I already just dont want to ever play it again..
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