VGChartz’s Evan Norris: “In an opening letter to its players, before the game even begins, Digital Eclipse notes the following: “Our primary goal is to make the original game accessible to modern players while remaining faithful to the original feel and gameplay.” Judged against that standard, the remake of Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a success. It retains the spirit of the groundbreaking 1981 Apple II game and makes it more approachable, less exhausting, and far more glamorous than ever before. Sometimes it hews too closely to the original, resulting in tedious, taxing gameplay, but in general it delivers a dungeon-crawler worthy of the Wizardry name.”
