Wizard School Dropout

Wizard School Dropout is a magic-focused, turn-based RPG and wizard simulator. After leaving wizard school in disgrace, you are cast out of magical society and turn to crime to pay off your student loans. You use an unlicensed, probably mostly safe portal generator found in an abandoned tower to infiltrate heists and steal from the rich and powerful. Your debt keeps accruing interest, and if you fail to pay, your creditors will take your soul.

Heists and magic

Heists and dungeons are short missions within a longer campaign. Locations are procedurally generated, with varied, semi-handcrafted layouts; their buildings, rooms and areas have fitting decor, loot, inhabitants and interactions. You can approach each heist in different ways: blast through walls and enemies with fireballs, teleport in and out, disguise yourself, sneak through magical clouds, frighten or freeze guards, turn enemies against one another, summon creatures, or use mind powers to make guards forget you were there.

Spells can be upgraded and customized, and the environment offers many ways to affect a mission. Set furniture on fire, freeze water to cross it, or spill dangerous chemicals on the floor. You can study magic books, artifacts and materials to improve spells and gain abilities, and increase your magic power through insights from dreams.

Life in the tower

Between heists, you can learn spells, brew potions, craft magic items, trade secrets with cats, start a cult and upgrade your tower. Recruit people and monsters to join missions or work in the tower, capture prisoners to ransom, or build an army of automatons and golems. Other pursuits include befriending laid-back wizards over hookah, manufacturing and selling magical drugs to nobles, and harvesting blood from monsters or wizards to sell to vampires.

Forbidden knowledge and curses can corrupt and mutate you, and you can become addicted to vampire blood. The game also lets you adjust the difficulty: choose permadeath, limited lives or no permadeath, and raise or lower debt payments and interest to make the pace more frantic or relaxed.