in 1989 in Dragon #145 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming Worlds Dennis Owens in 1989 noted the game's similarity to the first three games, saying, "Heart of the Maelstrom is, at once, both more simple than Return of Werdna and improved over the first three scenarios". He also noted, however, that the game played slowly due to extensive disk access. The magazine's Scorpia in 1991 and 1993 wrote that the game was "better than some, not as good as others". Compute! said that the game was good for both those new to and familiar with the series, but criticized the IBM PC version's use of CGA instead of EGA or VGA graphics. Reviewing the SNES version, GamePro opined that though the non-hostile monsters, riddles, and puzzles are admirable improvements from previous Wizardry games, the gameplay of Wizardry V is still outdated compared to other SNES RPGs such as Final Fantasy IV, noting in particular the need to repeatedly re-enter the same dungeon and the lack of multiple save slots. References External links Story section at TK421's Wizardry page Role-playing video games Apple II games Commodore 64 games FM Towns games NEC PC-8801 games NEC PC-9801 games Satellaview games Single-player video games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Video game sequels Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Kentarō Haneda Wizardry TurboGrafx-CD games 1988 video games First-person party-based dungeon crawler video games