Evil Wizard

Evil Wizard starts from a deliciously backward fantasy premise: the heroes have already stormed the villain’s castle, and you are the battered former tyrant trying to take it back. That reversal gives its revenge quest a mischievous edge, especially when the usual noble adventurers are recast as the invaders squatting in your ancestral halls.

This is an action RPG built around exploring a reclaimed castle, gaining powers, and putting elemental attacks to work against enemies, traps, and blocked paths. If you enjoy a brisk, combat-heavy metroidvania structure and like the idea of playing the unapologetic bad guy, Evil Wizard has a strong hook worth following.

Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

Evil Wizard’s best idea arrives before the first spell: you are not saving the castle from an evil wizard, you are the evil wizard coming home to find heroes occupying it. That puts a fun, slightly mean-spirited spin on familiar action RPG territory. Instead of serving a righteous campaign, you are reclaiming what you believe is yours, one room and one defeated do-gooder at a time.

The action is built for a direct, aggressive approach. You can combine melee attacks, spells, and dashes while facing enemy groups, deadly traps, puzzles, and bosses with different combat styles. That combination should make the castle feel less like a straight series of fights and more like hostile territory you gradually learn to dominate. The game’s metroidvania inspiration also matters here: new skills and elements are used to interact with the world and open fresh routes, so revisiting earlier spaces is part of the intended rhythm rather than a detour.

Elemental magic is the part that gives the combat its most promising texture. Fire, ice, void, lightning, and earth are not just flavors for attacks, since matching them against enemy weaknesses can reward you for changing tactics. Equipment upgrades and character tuning add another layer before tougher encounters. If you mainly want an RPG that wins through careful party management or sprawling dialogue choices, this is pointed in another direction. Evil Wizard is aimed at you if you want to be in the middle of each battle, reacting quickly and building a nastier magical toolbox as you go.

For a closer look at the original game’s stated combat and exploration setup, the Evil Wizard publisher description lays out its spellcasting, elemental, and castle-reclamation focus. The important question is whether that blend sounds satisfying for your own play style. It is a focused pitch: explore, unlock, hit harder, and punish the heroes who thought they had won.

Graphics

Carefully crafted pixel-art environments carry the game’s fantasy castle setting. The artwork’s clearest strength is its fit with the premise: a large, invaded ancestral home gives the action a more personal backdrop than a generic march across disconnected fantasy zones, while the pixel-art approach suits a game built around spells, enemies, traps, and secret paths.

Story

The story wisely begins after the supposed triumph of good. Songs already celebrate the heroes’ victory, the wizard’s followers have been slaughtered, and the defeated villain has escaped alive. Evil Wizard takes that familiar ending and treats it as the first act of a revenge story. It is a clean setup that immediately tells you who you are, what was taken from you, and why breaking back into the castle matters.

There is humor in asking you to view the heroic assault from the other side. The game does not ask you to mistake its lead for a misunderstood saint. He is explicitly a corrupt villain, which makes the role reversal sharper and gives the campaign room to enjoy its bad-guy point of view without pretending it is noble.

Do not come to Evil Wizard chiefly for a densely mapped political fantasy or a grand tale about saving the world. The narrative’s purpose is more immediate: it gives every recovered power and reclaimed hall a personal grudge behind it. That is enough when you want an action game with a premise that has more personality than another chosen-one quest.

Overall Experience

Evil Wizard has the bones of a very approachable action RPG: a single castle to reclaim, expanding movement and combat options, elemental attacks, and a villain protagonist with a clear axe to grind. The fantasy is easy to buy into. You begin as someone who has lost almost everything and work toward becoming a serious threat again.

Its likely sticking point is also its defining commitment. The game leans on combat pressure, traps, puzzles, and revisiting areas as new powers open routes. If that loop sounds satisfying, the revenge premise should keep the familiar metroidvania structure lively. If you are tired of backtracking or prefer slower tactical RPG battles, the castle may feel less inviting no matter how much you enjoy the joke of fighting the heroes.

For the right gamer, the payoff is the chance to inhabit a villain role without sacrificing the momentum of a skill-based action game. Evil Wizard does not need to reinvent fantasy to stand out. Making the victorious heroes into your enemies, then letting you rebuild an arsenal of nasty magic inside your own occupied castle, is a strong enough twist to make this one worth a chance.