Wizardry Variants Daphne

Wizardry Variants Daphne (tentatively: Wizardry VA) is an upcoming free-to-play first-person dungeon crawling role-playing game developed by Studio 2Pro and published by Drecom for iOS and Android. This game is a brand new entry in the Wizardry franchise. It will be initially released in Japan within 2022 and Early 2023 for the rest of the world.

The game's tagline is "Savoring the risk".

Story Summary
Once every 100 years, the Abyss opens.

The Warlock who slumbers in the Abyss awaken once in a hundred years, and the world is stained with the Warlock's coveted death.

The age of despair is again upon us.

For thousands of years the line of kings has sealed the Abyss.

But now, the king has vanished, and the world is being consumed by death, moment by moment.

Resistance itself is meaningless. There is naught but to perish.

Gameplay
TBA

Characters
Main page: List of Wizardry Variants Daphne Characters

These are the list of playable characters shown in a pre-release screenshot. Please note that these romanized English names are temporary and may be differ from final release.


 * Protagonist (？？？？)
 * Alex (アレックス)
 * Valdor (ヴァルドル)
 * Olive (オリーブ)
 * Amelia (アメリア)
 * Galena (ガリーナ)
 * Flute (フルート)
 * Gaston (ガストン)

Races

 * Human (人間)
 * Elf (エルフ)
 * Dwarf (ドワーフ)
 * Beastman (獣人)

Classes

 * Warrior (戦士)
 * Thief (盜賊)
 * Magician (魔術師)
 * Priest (僧侶)

Monsters
These are known monsters shown in early trailers or screenshots.
 * Goblin (ゴブリン)
 * Hobgoblin (ホブゴブリン)
 * Ogre
 * Creeping Coin
 * Vorpal Bunny

Events
Main page: Wizardry Variants Daphne/Events

Development
Before Wizardry VA was unveiled, Drecom acquires "Wizardry" copyright, as well as the domestic and foreign trademark rights including Wizardry VI, VII, Gold, and Wizardry 8. The company will announce a new title within the series.

On November 30, 2020, Drecom revealed new tentative Wizardry game titled Wizardry VA for mobile devices with Development Gameplay Shorts video published on its dedicated YouTube channel without release date announcement, the company is currently recruiting staff and development partners to work within the game.

Five months later, a new teaser trailer was already published with 2022 release year announced, Studio 2Pro were involved for developing Wizardry VA alongside Drecom as publishing. An interview with Famitsu talked about the potential difficulty of the game, among other various mechanics will be implemented such as multiplayer and gacha. The developers mentioned that the game is currently 30% complete and is planned to be released in the second half of 2022. However, a lot of systems mentioned still need refining and tweaking.

The next year on May, Drecom reveals financial report mentioning Wizardry VA will be released during fiscal year ending of March 2023 expected to contribute to earnings from the second half. Which means that the game may have been postponed into another release date.

On October 26, 2022. The official Twitter account unveils the official title called Wizardry Variants Daphne alongside website launch, as well the publication of new teaser movie.

On December 27, 2022. The official YouTube and Twitter account published a new trailer about the beginning of the story.

On January 30, 2023. The official Japanese Twitter account posted notice about postponement release date once again in order to improve the game quality. The release window are now set to general 2023 worldwide.

Gallery
Main page: Wizardry Variants Daphne/Gallery

Trivia

 * The game subtitle "Daphne" comes from Greek mythology.
 * This was the first Wizardry free-to-play smartphone game ever brought on worldwide and to be officially translated in English for the first time as opposed to the previous ones were only available in Japan during that time such as Tokyo Meikyū -Wizardry 0-, Wizardry: Senran no Matō, Wizardry Schema, and Wizrogue: Labyrinth of Wizardry.
 * Although Wizrogue ever got translated first in English by Forever Entertainment, it was completely different in favor of removing free-to-play elements for buy once model compared to original one and released shortly after Japanese server closure in October 30, 2015.