Rift Wizard 3

Rift Wizard 3 is a traditional roguelike in which you play an immortal, amnesiac wizard journeying through the cosmos to defeat your nemesis. Each run, you assemble a new repertoire of spells and magical artifacts, discovering ways to combine their effects. The game places you in high-pressure tactical situations where you must adapt your plans and use your creativity and analytical skills.

Build your magic

The open build system lets you buy any spell or spell upgrade at any time, so you can try different approaches each run. Blast foes with fire or lightning, summon hordes of metallic constructs, or use obscure arcane metamagic. Spells and artifacts can combine into powerful synergies.

A strategic crafting system lets you combine components found among the ruins of the universe to create magical artifacts that give the wizard passive buffs. You must decide how to spend your limited, varied magical resources, and rare ingredients can have unique effects on the item you craft. Craftable equipment ranges from stat bonuses to effects that trigger during events. Most passive skills and equipment from earlier games return in some form as craftable items, alongside more than 100 new items. These include effects such as making lightning emerge from your arcane damage, commandeering enemy spawners and giving your demon summons fire breath.

Choose your challenges

The portal system lets you choose which levels to visit, where to start and how to spend your resources. There is no stealth or stair dancing: you face each level directly and fight your foes with the tools you have. The game favors straightforward, puzzle-like combat over randomness and complex combat formulas, with game pieces designed to be easy to understand.

Enemies and bosses

The game adds new enemies and bosses, including the spry, pushy Leghead, the alien and terrifying Void Child, the returning Slazephan the Serpent Philosopher and the vengeful nature god Gaia. Final boss encounters, including the one with Mordred himself, have been expanded and revised.