Wizardry: The Five Ordeals

Wizardry: The Five Ordeals - The Absence of Misericordia

Wizardry: The Absence of Misericordia is an expansion scenario for Wizardry: Prisoners of the Battles and the seventh entry in the Wizardry Gaiden series, designed by Kotaro Ichien and developed by 59Studio…

11 August 2005

What Wizardry: The Five Ordeals - The Absence of Misericordia is

Wizardry: The Five Ordeals - The Absence of Misericordia is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by 59 Studio and released in 2005. It was published by Game*Spark Publishing. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

It has been two years now, and the endless winter has not once relented, leaving many stranded in the settlement of Winternadir. The fur merchants come to the adventurers with a request... The villagers often speak of a place of worship in the heart of a nearby valley. It was once home to "The Relic of Our Lady of Mercy", which was said to have kept the cold weather at bay. The relic is long since lost, and the valley has been abandoned. You must retrieve this relic, and return the region to its natural state.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Wizardry series

Wizardry: The Five Ordeals - The Absence of Misericordia is the 37th of 48 entries we hold in the Wizardry series. The next entry was Wizardry Asterisk: Hiiro no Fuuin in 2005.

See all 48 Wizardry games in release order →

What it launched against

Wizardry: The Five Ordeals - The Absence of Misericordia launched on 11 August 2005, within three weeks of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.

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