The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood

The concept is good but sometime the gameplay get very frustrating. Climbing sometimes is failing(ghost hand then you fall down), trying to pull an arrow but instead it makes a fireball. when you first get the lighting spell there so many enemies spawning throwing firebomb at you till you die was the end of the ride for me. I quited the game but for some reason steam keep counting as i was still in the game, I'll be extremely upset if i don't get refunded for this game.

Works on Reverb G2. This is a neutral recommendation. New Wizards improves almost every aspect of the original, but playing it in 2026 adds some unexpected drawbacks like downgraded visuals and existence of much better games in the same niche genre like Rumble and Elements Divided. The only thing TW-DT has over those titles is a proper single player campaign. Magical combat here is still fun though: the game does not shy away from challenging encounters that will require player to mix smooth and teleport locomotion with shield blocking to survive. Enemy AI uses movement tracking to calculate projectile trajectory, so it can not be beaten by simple circle strafing. The only time when the difficulty feels too much is during the end of The Rend level, when the game throws at you 2 ice elementals at the same time. Spellcasting is intuitive and satisfying, but it is spoiled a bit by a shoddy gesture recognition. I summoned fireball instead of a shield way too many times. TW1 had the same problem, it should not have been too hard to solve, since Rumble and ED do not suffer from it, while having a lot more spell combinations. Another weird issue is abundance of visual impairment effects: some elemental effects on player have a colorful vignette in addition to the red one for general hits, that takes almost half of the screen. Add to that bright flashes during shield blocks and failure to dodge enemy attacks leaves player half-blind for a short moment. Terrain hitboxes are imprecise, making shootouts near covers very awkward. Luckily they are rare and most spells have a small AoE splash damage, that still hits the enemy despite colliding with invisible environment borders. The game also lacks physical hands and head, but it is understandable for a 2020 release. Finally, it is hard not to address an elephant in the room: visuals were severely downgraded with Brotherhood update. Lighting was improved in several patches after that, but the textures are still quite low-res, leaving otherwise beautiful game looking mediocre.