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The Wizards

Become a powerful Wizard and take fate into your own hands! Immerse yourself in a beautiful fantasy world and use motion controllers to destroy your enemies by weaving elemental magic!

86 8 March 2018

The Wizards is an adventure developed by Carbon Studio, released 8 March 2018 on Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest and SteamVR.

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What The Wizards is

The Wizards is an adventure game developed by Carbon Studio and released in 2018. It is available on Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The protagonist is a young wizard traveling in time to protect the Realm of Meliora from the destructive enemy forces. During the adventure, the player visits different lands and faces varying opponents in a high fantasy world. Spell casting in The Wizards is based on the energy of the four elements, and the key to the victory is adapting your tactics to the flow of the battle.
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How it plays

It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

The Wizards holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel i3-6100 / AMD FX4350 or greater (only Oculus Rift, for Vive see Recomended spec), 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 960 or greater (only Oculus Rift, for Vive see Recomended spec). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Wizards launched on 8 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Into the Breach.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

The Wizards — frequently asked questions

When did The Wizards come out?
The Wizards was released on 8 March 2018 for Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest and SteamVR.
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Wizards?
At minimum, The Wizards needs Intel i3-6100 / AMD FX4350 or greater (only Oculus Rift, for Vive see Recomended spec), 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 960 or greater (only Oculus Rift, for Vive see Recomended spec) graphics, 5300 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is The Wizards?
The PC version needs about 5.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5300 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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