Having come across videos of that new Dragon Age game and its (by the look of it) cool looking combat I’ve gotten the urge for something similar. Action RPG of some kind, being able to rock on as a wizard and blast spells all day. Some tactical element to spell slinging and comboing would be nice.

Love me some recommendations!

    • Shizrak@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      Control has been really good so far, but the pacing of the difficulty is really wonky. Everything is a breeze, right up until something is damn near impossible. So I keep starting and stopping it.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Magicka comes to mind but it was utterly unplayable single player. Maybe the sequel is better.

    It feels very wizard like because you don’t have a static list of spells. You have 8 elements you.can combine into spells. (It does have unlockable spells but those are sort of secondary.) So using the fire and shield elements makes a wall of flame, for example.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Yeah lots of recommendations here but let me give you some that I think answer your request more specifically.

    Wizard Of Legend is a top down roguelite where you play a wizard that can equip different spells and upgrades. The combat and strategy is very focused on spells and how good you are at slinging them between dodging enemy attacks.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/445980/?snr=1_5_9__412

    Margoq’s Lair is a top down roguelike where spells are cast by composing them from elements, for example fire + shield casts the spell fireshield. It makes for a much more satisfying experience than pressing a button to cast a spell.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/2516550/Margoqs_Lair/

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Btw, have you played something like Hades? You’re not technically a wizard, but close enough. And there’s other hades-like games which might be more “wizard-like”.

  • 9bananas@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    noita is insane and has absolutely zero handholding. it’s truly hardcore and kinda souls-like in difficulty/lore, but truly excellent!

    magicraft is the king in casual spell crafting, very good game to play a bit after work, can call it quits anytime and pick it back up again. just had it’s full launch as well and might still be -20% (about 12€)

    fictorum is fairly unique, because it’s first-/third-person and 3D, and also very good with an intuitive spell system and a little bit of indie game jank

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Its kinda different but maybe Two Worlds, I remember killing everything in the world and resurrecting literally everything so that every NPC was friendly to me. I killed the whole world and brought it back.

    • caut_R@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Fair warning that when I played it with a friend (two-ish years ago), it was broken and abandoned. Couldn‘t play in co-op for more than 30 minutes without a disconnect, some DLCs didn‘t even start, singleplayer you had to downgrade to an older version or else it crashes every so often. Every loading screen had me praying the game doesn‘t poop the bed. It was probably fun at some point, but it needs engineering attention and hadn‘t gotten that in years when I last tried it.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 days ago

      This was going to be my recommendation. Probably not what OP wants, but definitely what they asked for!

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        6 days ago

        Is it good solo? I don’t have a lot of time for games but this looks like it might be able to scratch my (MMO)RPG itch a bit without being too much of a time sink.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I enjoyed it solo, though it did become impossibly hard at one point. I don’t know if you need to have friends to help or if I just needed to be better at the game!

          • JC1@lemmy.ca
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            6 days ago

            What’s important is the combos. There are very powerful combos that render the game very easy.

            • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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              5 days ago

              What are your combos of choice? I remember having a few good ones committed to memory at the time.

          • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            6 days ago

            I definitely completed it solo. Finding spell books definitely helps, but just crafting spells with the given elements can be more than enough to muddle through.

            You can give yourself armor to assist in your normal squishy wizard self that definitely helps with the tougher bits.

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    This one is completely different from your typical ARPG, but I’m going to recommend Noita.

    It’s a 2d game where you play as a wizard off spelunking. The magic system is rad as heck, you find wands with spell slots in them, and spells that you can put in the wands. You can rearrange and combine spells to get some truly bizarre effects

    I’ve killed myself in a dozen hilarious ways trying to make the perfect wand. It never gets old

    • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I advice people to not install invincible mods right away. But the game is full with content and you often die instantly, I personally had to use a respawn mod to see all of it’s content. The game is really hard, probably the most difficult game I’ve ever played. Souls games are a cakewalk in comparison.