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FULL-COLOR ANIMATED graphics DIGITIZED sound (NO add-on cards required)HARD DISK supported11 Races, 14 Professions (with rankings!)Weaponry, Physical and Academia SkillsSix Spellbooks, 462 CombinationsNon-Player CharactersAn arsenal of over 400 researched itemsVaried Fighting ModesPrimary and Secondary AttackContinuous JourneyUnlimited...

Release DateSep 10, 2013
Price$ 4.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)80.4% (positive) / 75.8%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)73.7% / 70.7%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)153  / 219  Top 30%
Curators28 reviews  Top 20%
Median Play Time14 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar2.8 hours  Top 5%
Followers912 
Owners± 148.2K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 11.2K  Top 30%
Gross Revenue ($)± 13.4K 

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge's Steam rating and reviews between November 2013 and December 2023. Steam's rating is in a range going from 93.3% (February 2014) to 69.3% (August 2019).

With its 219 reviews Top 30%, Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge could be considered a decent success for an indie game.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge's Steam reviews. The most popular language is English (73%), followed by Japanese (6%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 14 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has 2 translations (English and German). More translations could have boosted the game's popularity.

Time Played

Chart displaying Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is great, reaching 69 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 20 times less than the median for positive reviews. A low negative review time (median : 90 minutes) can mean that the game crashes on some systems or that the type of gameplay was not completely clear to the players (Is the game unmistakably explained on the Steam Store ?). It is also possible that players were otherwise displeased by Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Designing, equipping and leveling up your 6-character party is just great
  • Combat is extremely challenging and super enjoyable with a great deal of strategy, many spells and character/monster abilities
  • Position of characters in combat matters, only ranged and pole weapons or spells and special abilities allow attacking from the back rows
  • Very good writing in the non-silly parts of the story
  • Nice sense of exploration
  • Automapping (in the SNES version)
  • JRPG-style controls (in the SNES version)
  • Turn-based gameplay
  • Party management
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Too many random encounters
  • Nonsensical patchwork of various mythologies, novels and just plain silliness
  • Dungeon graphics are boring
  • RPG system has some well-known exploits
  • The optimal way to play if you want the best party/items to carry over to the next game requires reading a lot of spoilers
  • Clunky and outdated design (Wizardry VI)
  • Sadistically unbalanced difficulty (Wizardry VI)
  • Garbage fire interface (Wizardry VI)
  • Ugly graphics (Wizardry VI)
  • Boring and repetitive maze-like gameplay (Wizardry VI)

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 80.4% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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