Quiz RPG: The World of Mystic Wiz

Lore & Background

Players control an apprentice wizard who follows a young woman named Wiz and learns magic by completing quests that involve answering trivia questions. The game features a collection system where players gather, evolve, and combine elemental spirits to form teams and fight monsters. Players can also recruit friends, compete in tournaments, and participate in regular special events to unlock rare spirits. The game uses three elemental types arranged in a weakness triangle, and quiz questions correspond to a specific element; answering a question of that element causes the player's spirits to attack enemies with it.

Reader's Guide

Quiz RPG: The World of Mystic Wiz is significant as an early example of a mobile game that successfully merged quiz mechanics with role-playing and social game elements. Its hybrid design attracted a large user base, exceeding 26 million downloads in Japan by May 31, 2014, up from 17 million at the start of that year. The game's reception was mixed: Max Eddy of PC Magazine gave it 2.5/5 stars, describing it as a 'shallow, cynical experience' that forces grinding, while Mike Fahey of Kotaku praised it as 'so simple, it's brilliant' and expressed fondness for it. The game's international version had its service terminated on January 18, 2017. A separate PC version, launched via Yahoo! Mobage in September 2016 and ported by Core Edge, introduced its own spirits, events, maps, and a clan system not present in the mobile version.

Did You Know?

• The English and Korean versions saw a worldwide release on August 20, 2013.
• A PC version, independent of the mobile version, was launched in September 2016 via Yahoo! Mobage.
• The international version of the game had service terminated on January 18, 2017.