A Wizard, A Gun, And A Tower
Wizard with a Gun is an online cooperative sandbox survival game set in a magical wilderness full of dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. You play as a Gunmancer who travels out into the unknown to collect resources, craft gear, and outfit your wizard however you see fit. Your base of operations is a tower home where you design weapons, bullets, and furnishings. The magic you wield can escalate beyond your control, so you have to be careful not to burn your own tower down while experimenting. The world itself is fractured, with deserts, swamps, tundra, and prairies loosely floating together through space and time.
Playing Together Online
You can survive alone or team up with friends in online cooperative play. The Better Together update brought four-player co-op, so you and up to three fellow Gunmancers can journey into the Shatter together. When you play cooperatively, you combine your resources, magic, and creativity to build up your shared tower, or you can just watch it all burn down together. The group picks from four preset difficulty levels, or you can create a custom difficulty mode by tweaking variables to make the game harder or easier. Working as a crew lets you tackle the game's most dangerous challenges with greater firepower, which brings greater rewards.
Crafting And Combat
Combat is a top-down shooter experience where you experiment with spell combinations to find out how they affect enemies and the world around you. You collect resources from the world and craft unique enchanted ammunition for your guns. You can combine elements for intended or surprising effects that alter the shot, blast radius, bullet trail, and even the status of the creature in your crosshairs. Creative arrangements can lead to powerful creations that overwhelm your foes, while untethered amalgamations can be a recipe for disaster. You also customize your wizard's wardrobe from robes and hats to armor and accessories, which are both functional and fashionable.
Bounty Hunting And The Shatter
As you explore the increasingly dangerous Shatter, you can pick up lucrative Bounties to earn special rewards, though they come with increasingly difficult challenges. New enemies move faster, hit harder, and possess special attacks. Defeat them to fulfill the Bounties and claim your reward from the Bounty Mechana to unlock extraordinary new weapons, including more than 50 new guns with weapon types such as a minigun, mortar, and a two-handed SMG. You can store your newly acquired arms and show them off on Gun Mounts back at your Tower. The update also introduces four new mini-bosses, each unique to their own biome, and Ambush Events that randomly trigger as you explore the Overworld. Back at the Tower, you can unlock the Library to unearth lore about the Shatter, Chaos, and the fractured world, rebuild the Voidskimmer sky ship with materials from rare bounty enemies, and open the doorway to the Oculus to experience the conclusion of the main story.