Paper Wizards

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Paper Wizards is a single player shooter game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Adam Avramov and was released on September 4, 2022. It received positive reviews from players.

This game is difficult and challenging fast-paced action with ability to tailor your approach and construct your skills to match your own style, rely on your agility, destructive power or quick decision making skills to overcome all the challenges the game can throw at you.Features Include Ability crafting system, allowing for hundreds of combinations Challenging gameplay and difficult encount…

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84%

Audience ScoreBased on 45 reviews

graphics3 positive mentions

stability2 negative mentions

Unique and enjoyable spell crafting system that allows for creative combinations.
Cute, cartoony art style with appealing character designs.
Potential for growth and improvement acknowledged by players despite current issues.

Frequent crashes and bugs severely impact gameplay and progression.
Combat feels unbalanced with unimpactful attacks and poor mana regeneration.
Lack of meaningful content, repetitive procedurally generated levels, and poor polish.

graphics
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
43%
43%
14%
The graphics feature a basic 2D, low-poly, cartoony art style that some find charming and cute, particularly appreciating the unique character designs. However, the visual quality is considered low and simplistic, with suggestions for more varied spell visuals and clearer tutorials to enhance the experience. Overall, the art style is liked despite the graphic limitations.
- “I love the art style. I can't wait to see how this game grows over the years!”
- “Seems cool, I like the art style.”
- “Cute art style.”
- “The graphics aren't great, very basic 2D billboarded monster assets and low poly cartoony backdrops of very low quality.”
gameplay
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
43%
14%
43%
Gameplay is criticized for lacking meaningful level design, narrative progression, and engaging combat feedback, with attacks feeling unimpactful and the sound design weak. While the spell crafting system is praised as a cool concept, gameplay currently feels repetitive and could benefit from clearer explanations, better visuals, and tutorials to enhance player experience. Despite these issues, there is potential for future improvement that some players are eager to follow.
- “The game looks pretty good for now; there are still some things that need to be worked on because the gameplay doesn't really differ that much for now. Even with different spells, it is still kind of the same gameplay, but I want to keep following this game because I can see that this will become a great game!”
- “The crafting mechanic is really neat but could benefit from a simpler menu and some explanation of what each effect does and how it affects the spell.”
- “Some different visuals for each spell would also be nice, and a tutorial for the crafting mechanic would be good to have.”
- “The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative-based gameplay progression and so on.”
- “Boring gameplay, bad sound design, unimpactful attacks, no visual feedback for dealing or taking damage, obtuse spell designing.”
- “There are some cool concepts, and I love the spell crafting system, but I didn't really enjoy the actual gameplay.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game shows potential but is currently hampered by bugs that affect stability, leading to crashes and glitches after about an hour of play.
- “Game is buggy but shows promise.”
- “Fun for about an hour, before lack of content and buggy-ness occurs.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Replayability is currently hindered by frequent crashes preventing progress beyond early levels, but users remain interested in returning once stability improves.