An Amazing Wizard News

Out now in Early Access with Linux support, An Amazing Wizard brings an interesting spell mixing system to a Dead Cells-like action platformer.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/an-amazing-wizard-is-a-dead-cells-like-where-you-mix-spells-out-in-early-access/

• [Progression] Reduced cost of unlocking new items based on their rarity [100],
  
• [QOL] Reduced time needed to pick up items top the inventory when holding a button [0.75].,
  
• [QOL] Increased time of unlocking meta progression and items by about 300% so you will need to spend way less time on unlocking stuff.,
  
• [Difficulty] Reduced amount of enemies spawning in the Void.,
  
• [Challenges] Increased number of enemies you don't need to kill in challenged like Skilled Killer (requiring you to kill most enemies on a given level) [15]. These challenges are now slightly easier.
  

• [Resolutions] Fixed camera after defeating bosses when using widescreen resolution.,
  
• [Performance] Reduced amount of decorations in the Void to improve it's performance.,
  
• [Interactions] It's now possible to interact with both item and chest or portal if an item has spawned on top of a chest/portal. (change reverted because it was causing performance problems)
  

If you're craving more games to fill the gap until Hollow Knight Silksong that deliver intense, side-scrolling action platforming with Metroidvania style exploration and a ton of skill expression, An Amazing Wizard is here to answer the call. After a successful demo, developer Tiny Goblins has launched its new roguelike into early access on Steam, and it stars an intricate spell-fusing system opening up possibilities reminiscent of the myriad combinations of The Binding of Isaac.

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• [Music] Background music is now muted after changing the game's window.
  
• [Settings] Added support for 5120 x 1440 resolution.
  

• [Performance] Reduced maximum amount of spawned damage/healing texts [infinite].
  
• [Performance] Lightning Strike, Zeus Rage and Zeus Wand now deal damage every 0.05 => 0.15 seconds (their total damage is unchanged).
  

• [Performance] Improved performance of spells sounds. All spells sounds are now limited since they were causing big performance issues. Now spells like for example Lightning Strike should have much better performance!
  

• [Performance] Removed healing effect (only visual part). It was problematic because with too much healing (even with simple combo like Zeus Wand + Shamanic Spellbook it could cause FPS drop).
  
• [Performance] Removed lights from spells like Lightning Strike, Spore Zone and from effects when projectiles are destroyed.
  

• [QOL] Added option to exit Perks window while selecting a perk.
  
• [QOL] Quests which are not related to giving X currencies / health / keys are now automatically completed after finishing them.
  

• [Trap Rooms] All switches in trap rooms have been changed to normal switches where you need to walk up to them and use once to open them forever.
  
• [Environment] Jumping platforms(slimes) will no longer push you upwards if you're using stomp (ground pound).
  
• [Environment] All chests now have 10% => 8% chance to become cursed.
  
• [Nerf] Great Energy Ball is now a Very Rare => Legendary spell and it's energy field deals damage 2x less often. The zone now also lasts for 2.5 => 2 seconds.
  

• [Challenges] Fixed a bug where "Challenger I" challenge was failing when taking damage outside Challenge Rooms.
  
• [Quests] Fixed a bug where window with quest details was sometimes impossible to close.
  
• [Windowed Mode] Player no longer walks on it's own after clicking outside the game's window in windowed mode. There are still some problems with this logic however and this will be further looked at in later patches.
  
• [Translation] Fixed current final's boss name in spanish and french languages.