Wizardry (franchise)

The Wizardry Franchise refers to the entirety franchise of Wizardry games and its Japanese made spin-offs, primarily and originally developed by Sir-Tech. The series began in 1981 with Norman Sirotek formed its company launched a beta version of Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord at the 1981 Boston Computer Convention. The final version of the game was released in September 1981. The franchise has crossed many consoles genres, and forms of media, and being inspired as a source to many Japanese RPGs particularly such as Dragon Quest.

The first five Wizardry scenarios, known as "Classic Wizardry" are comprised of Wizardry 1 (Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Wizardry 2 (Knight of Diamonds), Wizardry 3 (Legacy of Llylgamyn), Wizardry 4 (Return of Werdna), and Wizardry 5 (Eye of the Maelstrom).  Classic Wizardry were not sold nor were any derivative works bearing the Wizardry mark created prior to Nov 27, 2006; ownership was retained by Sirtech.  Sirtech Entertainment Corp has been established to exclusively exploit Classic Wizardry through licensing, development, and publishing.  Wizardry 6 (Bane of the Cosmic Forge), Wizardry 7 (Crusaders of the Dark Savant), and Wizardry 8 were sold and are currently owned by Drecom.

Game Series
While the original company ceased operating, it was recently reincarnated as Sirtech Entertainment Corp. and is currently remastering Wizardry 1 (Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord) through a development license with Digital Eclipse. During the time the original company ceased operating and the reboot of the second iteration of the firm, there are a number of active Japanese-made Wizardry product-lines, which are considered to be worthy "spin-offs". In fact, some were officially licensed for development by the original company before it ceased operating; the other unofficial product-lines were by fans.
 * Wizardry
 * Wizardry Gaiden
 * Wizardry Empire
 * BUSIN
 * Wizardry XTH
 * Wizardry Renaissance

Other Games

 * Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure
 * Wizardry Chronicle
 * Wizardry Summoner

Mobile Games

 * Monthly Wizardry
 * DoCoMo Wizardry
 * Wizardry Traditional
 * Wizardry Chapter 1
 * Wizardry Variants Daphne

Unreleased Games

 * Wizardry: Stones of Arnhem
 * Wizardry XTH 3
 * Wizrogue: Labyrinth of Wizardry - Samayoeru no Meiō

Novel

 * Wizardry Novel: Tonariawase no Hai to Seishun
 * Wizardry Novel II: Kaze yo. Ryū ni Todoite iru ka
 * Novel Wizardry IV: Werdna no Gyakushu
 * Wizardry Gaiden: Joō Iris no Junan
 * Wizardry Gaiden II: Suna no Ō
 * Wizardry: The League of the Crimson Crescent

Tabletop

 * Wizardry RPG
 * Wizball

Animation

 * Wizardry

Manga

 * Wizardry Gaiden
 * Wizardry ZEO

"Honorary" Wizardry Clones
Although these games aren't usually considered belongs in the franchise. Various game developers who previously involved on developing Wizardry spin-offs before went made a similar games and spiritual successors (simply referred as Wiz-Like or Wizclones by fans) without any references or terms relations to Wizardry series.

Games

 * Elminage (Starfish)
 * Generation XTH (Team Muramasa)
 * Class of Heroes (Wizardry XTH Spiritual Successor)
 * Entaku no Seito (Team Muramasa)
 * Demon Gaze (Team Muramasa)
 * Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi (Team Muramasa)