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Archmage Rises

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2023

Should you play it?

Experience the freedom normally only found in a tabletop RPG. Empowered with magic, you will create your own story, and experience real consequences from the decisions you make. Will you be the world’s savior... or its destroyer? The choice is yours.

What works

  • Deep and immersive world generation
  • Engaging tactical combat
  • Strong developer support and frequent updates
  • High replayability with procedural generation
  • Rich character customization and spell research

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and technical issues in early access
  • Limited content and unfinished features
  • Slow combat animations
  • Some ui and quality of life shortcomings
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative play

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Doors of Trithius

  • Wantless : Solace at World’s End

  • Knock on the Coffin Lid

  • Chained Echoes

  • Hellslave

  • Sonny Legacy Collection

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Archmage Rises but with more leadership over others

  • Brigandine The Legend of Runersia

  • Three Kingdoms Mushouden

  • Caves of Lore

  • Thea 2: The Shattering

  • Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1

  • Gordian Quest

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Archmage Rises but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • ASTLIBRA Revision

  • Few Nights More

  • Dungeons of Aether

  • Breachway

  • Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

  • SpellRogue

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Archmage Rises: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value, Competition.

Last update: 03/08/2026