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The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood
Developer Carbon Studio
Face the end of the world in the sequel to The Wizards. The critically acclaimed VR spellcaster returns with a gesture-based system, challenging enemies, grand adventure, and the ever-witty narrator. From the Steam store page
183 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
112 positive · 67 negative
95% range 55–69%
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| Steam reviews | 112 | 67 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
374 of 529 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 183 · most liked firstAVOID THIS GAME!!!! IT HAS BEEN BAIT AND SWITCHED / QUESTIFIED!!! IF YOU BUY THIS GAME ON LATE 2023 YOU WILL BE GETTING THE QUEST TEXTURES VERSION!!! IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY DOWNGRADED! The textures where replaced by lower res textures that look horrible and cheapen the whole environment, light look horrendous when compared to the old version, shadows look BAD. And thats just the obvious and easy changes to see. Who knows what non visible downgrades they did. THE SCREENSHOTS YOU SEE IN THE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Questified The original game was fun and looked great, but the most recent "update" added crossplay with the quest. As a result, the developers have downgrade the visuals to match the quest version. I think it's disgusting to buy a game only for it to have a massive downgrade in visuals. They haven't even made the original version available to play. I will change my review to positive if they revert the changes, or at least offer the original version in the beta tab.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You won't be a Gandalf screaming 'You Shall Not Pass' but in 'The Wizards Dark Times' you will undoubtedly be another powerful wizard taking on evil goblins and other creatures! Gameplay: https://youtu.be/unZbvqRAFBk A wizard is nothing without his spells and this time you will have access to a wide range of 11 powerful spells that will help you get through all or most of the challenges in the game. The environments sometimes also affect your spells, for example you will go through a level…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't with a clean conscience recommend a game that does a bait and switch scheme like that. They significantly downgraded visuals to release it on Quest and personally I feel rather scammed. F'ing Onward all over again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely loved this game when it came out, but they've now robbed me of that experience and downgraded it for Quest. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HOW TO DOWNGRADE THE GAME AND RESTORE THE ORIGINAL HIGH QUALITY GRAPHICS: If you weren't aware, the Brotherhood update to the game severely downgraded the graphics, the devs could have very easily created a beta branch which allows you to restore the game's original charm with a single click, but they seem to only be concerned with profits, anyways here's how you can make the game good again: First of all, you'll need to open up the steam console, you can do this by opening Run on your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an awesome game at it's core. Unfortunately, the game looks nothing like all of the screenshots because everything was made crappier for some other VR system. The graphics look like, or worse than, graphics back in 2016 when I first started playing VR. The controls are also a hot mess. Climbing doesn't work at all. You have to release one hand completely for about one second, then move, and it still feels wrong. The wrong spells are used quite frequently. Following the instructions of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had to refund, because none of the controls were working for me (Oculus Quest 2). Same goes for the other Carbon Studio products (The Wizards and Tempestfall as well). Too bad, looked really fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before I say anything, I would NOT recommend buying the game at full price, wait until a sale, I say this due to the length of the game, at the time of this review, I have completed the game on the intended difficulty. This game is absolutely amazing, although short. The spell casting method used in this game, being able to cast spells based on hand movements, makes it extremely immersive and fun. Being able to summon a fireball at just the flick of your wrist makes you feel powerful and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They arent fixing quest 3 controller issue where the angles point 90 degrees up wich makes this unplayable, they said they were gonna fix it 3 years ago, wish i could refund it. give me my money back please
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can't just pull the classic quest downgrade and then pretend it was an accident. Its insane how so many companies pull this move and then act surprised when people get (rightfully) mad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: * Prettier than it's predecessor; * Cooler skills on paper; * Boss fight could be cool / interesting. Cons: * 50% shorter than predecessor; * Skillpoints were cut, so no point exploring, unless you want some colors for your virtual gloves; * Skills are even less tested for usability (takes forever to trigger) and are completely unbalanced - now only self-aiming fireball has enough damage to kill anything... until you get energy beam later and just melt everything. So basically 1 usable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend this game, maybe the game is good, but I can't say because it's unplayable with HTC Vive (1st gen) controllers, I tried multiple time to contact the devs, in the discussions on steam, via email, via their discord, same result each time: I got ignored, not just not answered but totaly ignored because some most recent messages were answered on their discord. So if you have an HTC Vive or if you're not sure the game support your headset DON'T buy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing on my Quest 3 through steam link. The virtual hands were at a 45 degree offset from my real hands. It made range combat difficult, melee combat impossible, and menu navigation a hassle.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Index user: I wanted to love this game, but I just couldn't... Pros: It is beautiful, though I had to reduce shadows and post process by one notch. Beyond that is seem to run rather smooth. Cons: I did not enjoy the level design/layout there are SO MANY places where it looks like you should be able to walk or teleport to, but invisible walls are EVERYWHERE Prop hitboxes must be cubes... I found myself bumping into invisible corners, and spells that can't travel through gaps in broken walls…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pulling the trigger to create an open hand is at best a questionable decision. having to pull the trigger for spells is wildly uncomfortable. keeping the trigger pulled to keep spell active is worse. there is no way to change this frankly absurd control scheme. the original menu is fine, but once your in-game most settings in the pause screen are on the same screen, would be fine on a monitor but in vr the text gets hard to read and interact with.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I bought this on steam instead of G2A so I could refund it. Graphics are genuinely horrible, gestures don’t work half the time which makes the combat incredibly frustrating. Don’t waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game looks fairly cool. but on pcvr the orientation of the hands are so messed up that it makes a lot of combat basically impossible to do. also I saw that someone else has this issue and the devs responded a year ago saying that this is a high priority. seems like this is owned and run by a bunch of scumbags who falsely advertises when in reality they downgraded the ♥♥♥♥ out of the game in contrast to the SC of the game in the steam store DO NOT BUY If USING META Q3 it was on sale on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cannot play this game... tried for about an hour to play this game, but everytime I encounter some problems. The game is laggy as hell, is crashing my pc, or just crash the game after some minutes. BTW I have a RTX 3090 and i5 13600K
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved the first game. Could not wait to play the second one. Unfortunately, I cannot get beyond the main menu. The index controllers are not being detected. The HMD works, you can see the menu and look around, but there's no way to interact with it. I have read that many other users are facing the same exact issue. No solution yet. The developer has not even replied to my email on the matter, for three weeks now, hence the negative review. Not even a canned response. That's how much they seem…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heat-seeking ballistic ice swords.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished it already and I have to say it was very fun to play. You will really feel like a powerfull wizard on certain parts. It also has great fantasy/epic locations to be in VR, and it has a good concept using the spells with VR controller motions. The cons is that the controls are not 100% perfect yet and you will struggle to pull them correctly on certain high action situations (you may also think this as part of the difficulty in the game) But, most of the time they do work correctly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like to post bad reviews but it's been a long time since I've seen that. This game is unfinished. from the jank climbing to the never ending enemy spam. From the guy talking nonsense to you to the cliché bad guy. The game can be summed up as [walking and/or climbing section] -> [battle section] -> repeat. The climbing is jank : - you grab the first hold : works as most VR climbing - you grab the second hold while still holding the first : your second hand position will move…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has been completely broken for Index Controller users for almost half a year now with no word from the devs. I was excited for the new content, but I haven't been able to play it at all due to the complete failure by the devs to fix a single, most certainly simple bug. Do not buy until the devs fix the game, if at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you disabled teleportation for straight smooth movement a lot of areas become inaccessible with no way to get them. Also, can't get out of the first area, can't drop down, or do anything. There is one part of the cliff where you can fall off and it resets you. Can't seem to climb up. Game is unplayable, will probably ask HB for a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Played on Quest 3) I'm having such a blast playing this game. As of now most of my gameplay was spent on COOP mode but HOLY. This game has such an intense action and really satisfying way of casting spells that I already know I'll spend HOURS playing said game. Progression system gives you a motivation to play more, each element mage has it's own level so once you maxed out one of them you can continue to have fun with the other. They have different sets of skills which by the way have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're looking at this game in 2024 and you haven't played it yet then what are you doing with your life? Clear it has 2020 graphics but they are still better than some more recent VR games, and the gameplay is brilliant. This game makes you feel like a badass. love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really good if you have someone to play with but absolutely nobody was on and player base is pretty much non existent. Update: I bought it on sale again because the concept was worth 5 bucks. Just wish there were people on when I am. Updated update: I refunded it. Then it went on sale for 3.99. I bought it again. I really wish people played this dang game. I wonder how, with everything going for it from gameplay mechanics, uniqueness, to a 4 dollar price tag, it still seems to be a dead game.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hands are way off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With the Valve Index it's very difficult to play the game as the inputs aren't really being correctly acquired, for example it's VERY difficult to cast the elemental bow, release an arrow (because the slightest touch of the grip will make you cast another spell), the shield barely works and in multiplayer there are TOO MANY enemies for just 2 people. It looks and is cool as a concept, but it's absolutely impossible to complete a level with the aforementioned controllers problem. I also got…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No Index Controller support, and devs are not responding to messages. Lots of people unable to move in-game. Dead game?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not even sure where to being other than: I'M A WIZARD, HARRY! The spellcasting feels much more fluid than the first title in the series, and the spells are so incredibly satisfying to cast. I have probably spent well over an hour just hurling magic into the mountainside. Though I'm still not much of a fan of the ice bow. It's a pretty bow, but I feel it's the "clunkiest" of spells to use. I'd have much preferred an ice themed spell like a blizzard or cone of cold. The additional spells…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you want to feel the full power of magic at your very fingertips. Then this is the game for you. The direct sequel to The Wizards, Dark Times takes everything great from the first game and massively improves the experience. You can control various elements and powers via specific hand gestures and button combinations which fills amazing. The tracking is also very good, rarely did I find myself having issues casting spells. The story is somewhat simple but exciting none the less. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically developers just replaced good game with its ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mobile version. I paid for PCVR experience, and instead got cut game that doesn't match screenshots at all. In steam discussion developers act rude as if we are stupid and its our problem. dont buy their games, save your money and time. i think its been 3 years since they promised to restore graphics to its original look, guess what
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Works on Reverb G2. This is a neutral recommendation. New Wizards improves almost every aspect of the original, but playing it in 2026 adds some unexpected drawbacks like downgraded visuals and existence of much better games in the same niche genre like Rumble and Elements Divided. The only thing TW-DT has over those titles is a proper single player campaign. Magical combat here is still fun though: the game does not shy away from challenging encounters that will require player to mix smooth…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is good but sometime the gameplay get very frustrating. Climbing sometimes is failing(ghost hand then you fall down), trying to pull an arrow but instead it makes a fireball. when you first get the lighting spell there so many enemies spawning throwing firebomb at you till you die was the end of the ride for me. I quited the game but for some reason steam keep counting as i was still in the game, I'll be extremely upset if i don't get refunded for this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game gave me: · Acne · AIDS · Allergies · Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) · Alzheimer's disease · Anal abscesses · Anal Cancer · Anal Itching · Anal Tear · Anxiety disorders · Arthritis · Asthma · Astigmatism · Autism · Autoimmune diseases · Auto-Brewert syndrome · Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) · Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) · Asbestosis · Bad breath · Bacterial vaginosis · Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) · Bipolar disorder · Body odors…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been an active VR gamer for over three years, playing a wide range of games from simple experiences to hyper-realistic adventures. Unfortunately, I have to say that The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood is one of the worst performing VR games I've encountered. As a huge fan of magic-themed games, I was incredibly excited to dive into this one. However, the excitement quickly turned into disappointment. The performance issues in this game are simply unacceptable. The loading times between…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Experienced on Meta Quest 3 -Controls are buggy, mainly movement controls. -Spell gestures are not always recognized. -Many people say images on the store page are from the former version and the current version is downgraded. I did not play the former version but I can confirm the current version is not the same as the images on the store right now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not recommend this game... compare to the videoclips and the picture This Is Just a big downgrade the Mechanics are not really that great
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →from the short stint of playing it, this has some of the least responsive motion controls i've ever seen or experienced. the idea seems really cool but the awful responsiveness of the controls (and the teleportation turning you 180 degrees every time? idk what that was about) really put me off from playing it further. visually the game also looks very bad, something some other reviewers have called "questification", which is pretty fitting. the artstyle and style itself isn't the issue, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the worst games i have tried! Buggy like no other! The controller angle is completely broken pointing to the sky What that makes thw whole gesture system broken. If you planing to play on the quest you gonna have wonderfull time aince the menu button is binded to oculus / virtual desktop menu. Stay away!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They added cool new spells and polished up old ones. Besides that, everything about this game is worse than the original. My biggest gripe is that the hitboxes on most environment objects are significantly bigger than the visual elements. So if you want to make a ranged attack from behind cover (and as other review mention, this is the best/only option in 90% of the combat) then you have to remember to aim at least 6 inches (not exaggerating, it's that bad) away from the edge of the cover.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't launch in steam vr it launches in the dumb oculus app thing. Unplayable with the free movement option, you'll get stuck on ledges and need to go into the settings and swap to teleport movement to get down
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the most fun vr games that i have played
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much much better than the 1st game with many potentials I haven't played much spell casting games similar to this one so I can't compare it to the others, but to the 1st one (The Wizard - Enhanced Edition), this is a better game in almost everything (except for the battle theme). While I somehow enjoy my time playing the 1st one as it ticks my itch of being a fireball flinging wizard, and also being Darth Sidious (with Purple Lightning from my fingertip), I can only give it 4.5 out of 10, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing for only 1,5 hours, and im hooked! This game is literally my childhood dream coming true. Being a wizard with all sorts of powers... I mean, the mechanics of the game is awesome. Feel great when swinging my arms to cast different spells. Definitely worth the money!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so much fun with fireballs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dark Times is an outstanding VR game and a more outstanding sequel. Using only five gestures than could be described as "wrist", "across", "pull", "slash", and "squeeze" creates twelve unique spells that feel great to sling around. The sense of flow you can create is incredible, such as: summoning an ice bow, firing off a couple of shots at enemies in the distance, pulling it apart into two ice swords, smashing them into the melee enemy behind you to freeze him, bringing up a shield of light to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has low end graphics but doesn't run on modern PC. I play Skyrim with high settings with no troubles and much better visuals and resolution than this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game . The combat and hand motion abilities are the best part of the game the Story is ok. The game shows great promise for a sequel if we ever get one 👍🏻👍🏻 As for online play you will need to set that up on discord. Not enough people for the ally finders in multiplayer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is very bugy. Even in tutorial I got stuck in wall multiple times and one time game just spawned enemy behing texture so I got stuck. Quest 3 controls are not properly supported. Hands are in weird angle which Devs promised to fix in 2023 and never did it. Base idea (gestures for spell) is lovely, but rest is just boring repeatable buggy sludge. Not recommended even on sale
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →100% recommend this too anyone that just loves magic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i cant even load the game up i tried till my oculus died im editing this and im sorry bit i still cant get in im lost and i paid a lot for this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my first time playing i played for just shy of 3 hours o.o this game is cool as F*ck the spell shield and ice bow are my favorite so far this game is a great VR buy. Goes on sale for 10 a lot so its completely worth it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is simply not fun. Had it in my library for a while and finally decided to give it a go. It seemed interesting on the screens and videos. The level and world design is pretty good, it is just that the gameplay is lacking. There is not much to do during a level besides facing a continues stream of enemies. This would not be a bad thing as I enjoyed Arizona Sunshine, but if the combat is just boring and annoying, the whole game just falls flat. The game throws enemies at you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this game at a steep discount with a buddy, and it is an absolute blast to play! We had some performance issues that seemed to build up over time, but the overall experience was phenomenal. The gesture casting feels just right, and the combat is challenging, but soooo satisfying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was unable to begin a save file at all even after verifying file integrity.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun! I am better wizard.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →multiplayer could use more levels to play in but other than that it looks good and is fun to play.
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