The Wizard's Assistants

The Wizard's Assistants is an exploration game set in a wizard’s tower thrown into magical disarray by the Wizard’s experiments. You play one of the assistants, whose eyes are on the moon, and explore the tower, investigate what happened, help the other assistants and look for a way to escape. Collecting quarks charges Nexus points, which unlock magical augments and help you reach new areas.

The tower and its story

The assistants are scattered through the tower, still carrying out the last tasks they were given. As you explore, you can talk with them and help them escape questionable experiments, mysterious mechanisms and the tedium of assistant duties. Notes, scrolls and glyphs gradually reveal what happened in the tower, the Wizard’s workings and the assistants’ stories, while you unravel your own past.

The tower includes pipes, workshops from the past and present, collections of spellbooks, rafters and shadowy corners. It grows stranger the higher you go, and examining its clues can reveal more about what has been happening inside.

Explore and experiment

You run, climb, jump and glide through the tower at your own pace. Gather quarks and activate Nexus points to unlock spells and augments that let you bounce, traverse ledges, teleport, ride beams of light and solve puzzles. You can throw ledges into place, create portals, arrange potion bottles to make books levitate, activate mirrors to form rideable beams of light and burn your way into hidden places. Nexus points also let you fast travel back to places you have visited.

Exploration without failure

Exploration is safe: there are no lives or game overs, and a failed experiment does not cost you progress. Magical barriers let you push into the edges of the tower, and curiosity drives the adventure forward.