Bullet heaven, now in 3D
Run, jump and kite hordes across real 3D terrain: castle walls, sunken canals, bone bridges and floating islands. High ground matters, and so does your footwork.
- 14Stages
- 6Realms
- 20+Spells
- 50+Monsters
- 10+Bosses
- 10:00Minute runs
What is Wizard World 3D?
The survivors-like you love, rebuilt in 3D
Wizard World 3D is an indie wizard game: a 3D action roguelike in the survivors genre (also called bullet heaven or horde survival), wrapped in low-poly PS1 nostalgia. Your spells cast themselves. Your job is to run, jump, dodge and choose: every level-up offers a fresh pick of spells and upgrades, and by minute ten your build is a screen-filling light show.
Explore open 3D maps with a third-person chase camera. Charge shrines for permanent stat boosts, crack pots for gold, spin treasure chests for loot, hunt down the hidden boss portal, then survive the Final Swarm. Between runs, everything you bring home grows your base, the Astral Nexus.
Ten minutes. All gas.
Every stage is a ten-minute run: minibosses, swarm surges, a hidden boss portal and a Final Swarm that never stops coming. The perfect length for "just one more run."
Bosses that fight hard, and fair
Chrome tyrannosaurs, sun-god mechs, brick dragons and pyramid-headed sorcerers. Every attack telegraphs in red, so read it, jump it and punish it.
A home base that grows
Every run pays off. Bank gold and loot at the Astral Nexus, upgrade eight facilities through three visible tiers, and open new realm portals as you clear stages.
Raise your Monsties
Pocket-sized companions live in your hub. Feed them what you find on your runs and raise them in a cosy virtual-pet garden.
Pure PS1 nostalgia
Low-poly models, chunky textures, Gouraud lighting, dithering and fog: the look of a memory-card classic, rendered at full modern resolution with a crisp HUD.
Anatomy of a run
Ten minutes to become a god
00:00
Drop in
Merlin lands with three starting spells. They fire on their own. You steer, collect XP and choose upgrades.
- Charge shrines for permanent stat picks
- Spin treasure chests for loot
- Clear the stage and bring everything home
- Fall early and half your gold still makes it back
Watch
See it in motion
14 stages · 6 realms
Worlds worth getting overrun in
Every stage is a hand-built 3D world with its own cast of monsters, secrets to climb to and a boss waiting behind the portal. Tap a world to look around.
Toy Realm · Wave stage
Toy Castle
A studded toy-brick kingdom floating on a cloud sea beneath an endless rainbow. Clockwork tin soldiers and jack-in-the-boxes guard the keep.
Boss: Emberbrick, the brick dragon
Hell Realm · Wave stage
Hell Castle
Walk the Rib Road to a skull-faced keep on an island adrift over a sea of lava. Seven breeds of demon stand between you and the throne.
Seven demons. One throne.
Ancient Realm · Wave stage
Atlantis
Plato's ringed city, drowned. Walk the sunken canals past triremes on the seabed and step inside the temple of Poseidon, with the surface shimmering overhead.
Drowned hoplites, hippocamps & Firestone Medusas
Astral Realm · Wave stage
Origin of Realms
A world printed on the pages of a giant open book: mushroom woods, basalt steps and prism peaks, all under the gaze of a colossal rainbow Architect.
Boss: Pyramidon
Toy Realm · Wave stage
Toy Rome
The Eternal City rebuilt as a toy box. Walk into the Pantheon, wade the Tiber, climb the Spanish Steps and make your last stand in the Colosseum.
All roads lead to the Colosseum
Astral Realm · Boss arena
Astral Grove
A midnight forest of glowing mushrooms beneath a striped moon, where Sporelings, Eye-Sores and Moon Toads guard the rainbow Realm Seal.
Boss: Pyramidon
Hell Realm · Boss arena
Hell Arena
Abandon all hope at the neon Gate of Hell: a colosseum of tombs, cages and humming pylons over a river of fire.
Boss: Hexmaul
Ancient Realm · Wave stage
Giza Metropolis
The pyramids reborn as glowing power plants beside a cyberpunk Cairo and the Nile at dusk. Cyber mummies, scarabs and camels swarm the streets.
Rulers: Mummy Lord & Cyber Pharaoh
Island Realm · Wave stage
Easter Island
Where the journey begins: golden-hour beaches, a turquoise lagoon, a smoking volcano, and moai that do not stay still for long.
Beware the Moai Titan
Ancient Realm · Wave stage
Baalbek Valley
Giant temple stones in a green valley beneath Mount Hermon, home to satyrs, strix and salamanders, and to the Bull of Baal.
Boss: the Watcher
Cyber Realm · Boss arenas
The Cyber Arenas
Three floating neon motherboard colosseums adrift in a galaxy sky, each wired in the colours of the machine god waiting on it.
Rex Machina · Horakhty · Crimson Leviathan
Toy Realm · Boss arena
Toy Arena
A studded brick colosseum of gumball machines, rockets and toy trains, and a dinosaur who has decided it is all his.
Boss: Bricktator Rex
The spellbook
20+ spells. Infinite builds.
Every spell is a fully 3D effect, not a flat sprite. Pick them as you level, stack their upgrades, and watch them combine into something your graphics card will remember.
Prism Cannon
A prism of light splits into rainbow beams.
Pyramid Downlink
The pyramids strike from the sky.
Singularity Bomb
A black hole drags them in, then pops.
Magma Serpent
A lava snake hunts, leaving fire behind.
Chain Lightning
Lightning leaps from foe to foe.
Jupiter Clouds
Storm clouds hunt your foes.
Gemini Twin
A twin of light casts your spells with you.
Dice of Fate
Roll the die: the face is the blast.
Heat Seeker
A salvo of homing missiles from your shoulders.
Skull Bolt
Green-fire skulls hunt your foes.
Sandglass Cage
A field of slowed time around you.
Frost Nova
Freezes enemies in an icy blast.
Rainbow Arch
Summons a damaging rainbow ring.
Photon Volley
Torpedoes lock on and detonate.
Dazzle Star
Bursts rainbow stars all around.
Fireball
Hurls a blazing lava boulder.
Ninja Star
Fires blades ahead and behind.
Magic Wand
Merlin's first spell: fires at the nearest enemy.
…and more still hidden in the grimoire.
Boss rush
Meet the titans
Each realm ends with a boss that has its own arsenal, its own arena and an enraged second phase. Learn the patterns, read the red, and take them down.
Cyber Arena · Final boss
Rex Machina
The Chrome Tyrant
A six-metre chrome tyrannosaurus with a missile pod for one arm and a broadsword of light in the other claw. It roars when it arrives, and again when it gets angry.
- Blade WaveA standing crescent of light races down your lane. Step aside.
- Warhead SalvoHoming missiles, with a reticle closing in on you.
- StompA golden shock ring rolls out. Jump it.
Cyber Arena 2
Horakhty
The Sun Engine
A 9.5-metre obsidian god-mech with a falcon helm, obelisk cannons, a khopesh arm and a cyan plasma sun held in a ring of gold.
- Eye of RaTwin beams lock on, then burn a line across the arena.
- Scarab SpiralRotating volleys of neon bolts.
- Warp StrikeIt vanishes and re-forms right where you're standing.
Cyber Arena 4
Crimson Leviathan
Wyrm of the Red Circuit
A 9.6-metre crimson war-mech with a serpent helm and a snout cannon. It doesn't just chase you: it pulls you in.
- Crimson WhirlpoolA hurled orb opens a vortex that drags you toward it.
- Maelstrom TornadoIt charges inside a spinning vortex, ricocheting off the walls.
- Wyrm KillerLow claw sweeps, then crescents racing along the floor.
Toy Arena
Bricktator Rex
Tyrant of the Toy Box
A toy-brick tyrannosaurus with a dart launcher on its shoulder and something very wrong behind the zipper on its belly.
- Brick BlasterTumbling brick shells lobbed where you're heading.
- Dart CrusherSuction-cup darts slam down and stick.
- UnzippedBelow 40% the zip rips, and the void inside opens its eyes.
Toy Castle
Emberbrick
The Brick Dragon
Nearly eighteen metres of fire-breathing bricks, nesting above Toy Castle's rainbow. It flies. It grabs. It does not put you down gently.
- FireblastA sweeping stream of flame that leaves the ground burning.
- Swoop & GrabIt dives, snatches Merlin and carries him off.
- Tail SwipeCircle behind it at your peril.
Hell Arena
Hexmaul
The Chain-Fist Brute
A half-cyborg demon the size of a house, with a war hammer in one hand and a grapple cannon in the other. Keep your distance? It has a plan for that.
- Hammer SlamThe floor erupts and a shockwave ring races out. Jump it.
- Grapple FistA fist on a chain fires at you. Sidestep, or get reeled in.
- Hammer ComboWhat happens when it reels you in.
Astral Grove · Origin of Realms
Pyramidon
The All-Seeing Sorcerer
A wizard with a pyramid for a head and an eye that sees everything. Merlin's dark mirror, and the gatekeeper of the astral realm.
- Eye BeamA burning scan line sweeps across the floor.
- Pyramid DropStone pyramids fall from the sky onto red marks.
- CRT VanishIt switches off like an old TV, then reappears somewhere else.
Fair, not cheap: every boss attack shows its danger zone in red before it lands. If you got hit, you could have dodged it.
…and 50+ monsters who want a word
Tin Sentry
Brimstone Imp
Moon Toad
Cyber Pharaoh
Jack Snap
Firestone Medusa
Sporeling
Drowned Hoplite
Cinderhound
Eye-Sore
Glitch Stag
Moai Titan
The Watcher
???
Home base
The Astral Nexus
Every run ends in the same place: a floating temple-city at the centre of every realm. Win or lose, what you bring home makes it grow.
Six districts (island, ancient, cyber, toy, hell and astral) each guard sealed realm portals. Clear a stage and the next portal wakes up. Spend your haul on eight facilities, each with three visibly different tiers, from a humble stall to a landmark.
BASICADVANCEDULTIMATE
- Item Bank
- Item Shop
- Restaurant
- Equipment Shop
- Item Forger
- Real Estate Agent
- The Arena
- Merlin's House
And when you need a break from saving reality, there's a pond with your name on it. Bring a fishing rod.
Pet garden
Raise your Monsties
Not everything in Wizard World wants to eat you. Monsties are pocket-sized companions who hop around your hub between runs.
Feed them what you bring back from your adventures and raise them in a cosy, living garden, in the spirit of the virtual-pet gardens and monster-raising classics of the late 90s.
Yukibo
Mikeko
Bruut
ShizukuThe look
A memory card from 1998, at modern resolution
Wizard World 3D is built from the ground up to feel like the Japanese PlayStation classics we grew up on. It has that PSX-style look: low-poly, saturated, a little bit strange, and full of charm.
LOW-POLY MODELS
Hand-tuned, segmented PS1-style characters with chunky pixel textures and expressive faces.
DITHER & FOG
15-bit colour with ordered dithering, Gouraud lighting and classic distance fog.
NATIVE RESOLUTION
Crisp at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, with an optional low-res retro mode for purists.
SMOOTH 3D CAMERA
Third-person chase camera, mouse-look or right stick, and full controller support.
Made for fans of
Vampire SurvivorsMegabonkBrotatoSpyro the Dragon
PS1 & PSX-style 3DRoguelikes & roguelitesBullet heavenHorde survival
Fact sheet
Everything you need to know
- Title
- Wizard World 3D
- Developer
- Wiz
- Genre
- Indie 3D survivors-like roguelite
- Release
- Coming soon to Steam
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Steam Deck
- Players
- Single-player
- Input
- Keyboard & mouse, controller
- Price
- To be announced
What is Wizard World 3D?
Wizard World 3D is a 3D survivors-like roguelite with a retro PS1 low-poly art style. You play as Merlin, whose spells cast automatically while you move, jump and dodge huge swarms of monsters. Each stage is a 10-minute run with minibosses, a hidden boss portal and a Final Swarm. Between runs you return to the Astral Nexus, a home base that grows with the loot you bring back.
When does Wizard World 3D come out?
Wizard World 3D is coming soon to Steam. Join the email list to hear the release date first, and wishlist it on Steam as soon as the store page goes live.
What platforms will it be on?
Wizard World 3D is coming to Steam on Windows, macOS and Linux, and is being built with Steam Deck in mind.
Is it like Vampire Survivors or Megabonk?
Yes. Think of it as a 3D Vampire Survivors-like wizard game. If you enjoy auto-attacking survivors games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato or Megabonk, you'll feel at home. Wizard World 3D adds full 3D worlds with jumping and verticality, telegraphed boss fights, a growing home base, Monstie pets and a PS1-era look.
Who is making Wizard World 3D?
Wizard World 3D is developed by Wiz, an independent developer. For press and business enquiries, email WizardWorld3D@proton.me.
How long is a run?
Each stage runs for ten minutes before the Final Swarm arrives, so a single run fits in a coffee break, and "one more run" is always tempting.
Does it have controller support?
Yes. Wizard World 3D supports both keyboard and mouse and gamepads, with the camera on the right stick.
Is there multiplayer?
Wizard World 3D is a single-player game.
How much will it cost?
Pricing will be announced closer to launch. Email subscribers will be the first to know.
How can I support the game?
Wishlisting on Steam is the single biggest help: wishlists tell Steam to show the game to more players on launch day. Joining the email list and telling a friend helps too.
The portal is opening
Be there when the swarm arrives
Join the list for the launch-day alert, the release date and behind-the-scenes devlogs. You'll also be the first to know when the Steam page opens, so you can wishlist it on day one.
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