Wizdom Academy Steam news

• Latest observed players6 · 6 October 2026 - 09:14:12 UTC
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• Review score62% positive
• Total reviews234
• Release dateApr 17, 2025
• DeveloperKipwak Studio, Lake On Fire
• PublisherKipwak Studio

Genres: Simulation, Strategy, Early Access

Company pages: Developer: Kipwak Studio, Lake On FirePublisher: Kipwak Studio

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Wizdom Academy Steam news

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Latest Steam announcements

• 0.9.0 | The Legacy Update - 2 October 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Update 0.9.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update brings a major rework of the Legacy system, new progression content, improvements to Trials and student behavior, additional mana infrastructure, and a broad round of visual and UI polish.We have also continued improving the late game, with better Trial preparation, new controls for student progression, improved village systems, and a large number of smaller fixes and refinements.Let’s dive in!The Legacy system has been reworked and fully integrated into the game.New quests are now tied to Legacy objectives, giving Legacy a clearer role in your academy’s progression.Windmill II has been added, along with its associated progression and quest.Mana Storage III has been added, providing a new step in mana storage progression.New quests have been added for the new mana storage progression.New visuals ha…

• Wizdom Academy 1.0 launches November 16, 2026 - 23 September 2026

  Headmasters, the time has come.We’re incredibly excited to announce that Wizdom Academy will officially leave Early Access and launch in 1.0 on November 16, 2026!After more than a year in Early Access, countless updates, playtests and feedback from our community, we’re getting ready to open the doors to the full Wizdom Academy experience.Build your wizard schoolIn Wizdom Academy, you take on the role of Headmaster and build your own magical academy from the ground up.Design every room, recruit students from across the world, manage your staff, keep your mana reserves under control and respond to the demands of the Directorium.Your students can develop over 100 unique traits, unlock more than 50 Destinies, and return to study multiple times before graduating.Explore the world, send professors on expeditions, deal with rival academies and make decisions that will shape the future of your…

• 0.8.0 | Classrooms & Traits Update - 9 September 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Major Update 0.8.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update brings a major overhaul to classrooms, character traits, village influence, mana management, quests, trials, and several core progression systems.Classrooms now have two live scores, Academic Excellence and Class Ambiance, which directly affect what your academy produces and how tiring lessons are. Characters now arrive with more meaningful traits, villages grant their own passive perks, and students or teachers can develop new traits from what they experience inside your academy.This update also introduces Mana Mines, the Miner’s Den, new village installations, quest tracking, a new early mana reserve, more control over repairs and expeditions, a sixth academy floor, and a very large batch of fixes.Let’s dive in!Classrooms now have two live scores: Academic Excellence and Class Ambiance.Both…

• 0.7.5 | Hotfix - 11 August 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Hotfix 0.7.5 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving camera controls, village influence, recruitment pacing, Headmaster’s Board readability, and several important UI and gameplay issues reported after the latest update.It also fixes character animation issues, room alerts across floors, teacher idle detection, classroom tooltips, and rooms incorrectly closing after loading a save.Let’s dive in!Building the Tower / Magical Lift now costs 10 Glyphites instead of 5.Academy Wealth in the Headmaster’s Board is now shown in thousands with a K suffix, making the line much shorter and easier to read.The wealth change shown next to it is shortened the same way and keeps its color: red when it drops, green when it rises.Holding the middle mouse button to pan the camera no longer keeps the camera drifting when the mouse stays still.The came…

• 0.7.4 | Hotfix - 10 August 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Hotfix 0.7.4 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving save reliability, damaged room behavior, construction guidance, world map exploration, Directorium systems, room placement, professor management, and several UI issues reported by the community.We also added new quality-of-life tools, including instant demolition with Shift, clearer floor and placement tooltips, better guidance during tutorial quests, more visible village expedition information, and stronger feedback around unpaid teacher wages.Let’s dive in!In demolish mode, holding Shift while clicking a building now tears it down instantly, skipping the refund confirmation window.Broken rooms now refuse to be demolished, while indestructible buildings are still simply selected.Hovering a tower floor button now shows a tooltip reminding you which keys move the view up and dow…

• Enjoying Wizdom Academy? Leave us a review! 💙 - 8 August 2026

  Hello Headmasters!Wizdom Academy continues to grow and improve throughout Early Access, and your feedback is a huge part of that journey.If you’ve been playing the game and enjoying your time as Headmaster, we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to leave a review on Steam.Reviews make a real difference for a small indie studio like ours. They help new players discover Wizdom Academy, give them a better idea of what to expect, and help us understand what you enjoy and what we can continue improving.We’re working hard on the game, fixing issues, improving existing systems and continuing to build Wizdom Academy with your feedback in mind. Whether you’ve been with us for a long time or recently joined the academy, thank you for playing and supporting the team. 💙If you enjoy Wizdom Academy, consider leaving us a Steam review. Every review helps!Thank you, Headmasters! 🧙Drop a…

• 0.7.3 | Hotfix - 6 August 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Hotfix 0.7.3 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update is a big one. It fixes several serious issues that could affect saves, main quest progression, trials, recruitment, storage capacity, damaged rooms, multi-floor academies, and interface behavior.We also made large performance improvements for late game academies, improved memory usage, added new feedback to the UI, and introduced new academy events tied to unpaid wages and professor wellbeing.Let’s dive in!The opening tutorial now teaches you about doors.The first time a ground floor room becomes cut off from the corridors, Elara now opens a window and offers a side quest asking you to build a door and reconnect every isolated room.This new door tutorial includes blue guidance arrows pointing to the Navigation tab and the door itself.Completing this side quest rewards 10 Glyphites, with no time lim…

• 0.7.1 | Hotfix - 31 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Hotfix 0.7.1 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on fixing several issues reported after Major Update 0.7.0, especially around damaged classrooms, trials, teacher salaries, request timers, Learning Tree upgrades, Discord links, translations, and save/load behavior.We also added two new Trials Ground upgrades to the Learning Tree and made a few quality-of-life improvements to teacher profiles, graduate choices, memory management, and the end of demo screen.Let’s dive in!Added two new Learning Tree upgrades for the Trials Ground.Efficient Channeling reduces the mana cost of a trial session by 25%.This reduced mana cost is now shown directly in the trial price before launching the session.Expanded Trial Circle allows two additional students to take their trial at the same time.This upgrade applies to every Trials Ground in the academy.The ga…

• 0.7.0 | The Mana & progression update - 29 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Major Update 0.7.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This is a major update focused on early game progression, mana management, quests, trials, graduations, destinies, the world map, UI clarity, balance, performance, and a large wave of bug fixes.We also made major optimization improvements: the game build size has been reduced by 66%, loading times have been reduced by up to 90%, and overall performance has been significantly improved. Work is still ongoing on that front, but the game should already feel much smoother.Several important progression blockers have also been resolved, including issues that could stop the main quest line from continuing, classrooms refusing to welcome students properly, teachers not teaching, and several trial and graduation-related problems.The game has changed quite a lot again with this update, and the academy should now fe…

• 0.6.5 | Hotfix - 22 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on destiny readability, world map polish, fog of war, classroom reliability, Prestige display, UI improvements, and several important fixes.Most importantly, this hotfix resolves a major issue where classroom student capacity could gradually decrease over the course of a game, eventually preventing classrooms from welcoming any students at all.Fog of war has been added to the world map.World map locations now have three states:HiddenHintedDiscoveredAt the start of a new game, only the academy’s starting village is visible.Nearby locations now appear as hinted points before being fully discovered.Fog now clears around locations once an explorer has visited them.Existing saves should display the new fog of war system correctly.A dedicated Prestige gauge has been added.The Prestige gauge now s…

• 0.6.4 | Hotfix - 22 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on construction rules, buildable areas, teacher behavior, doors, world map improvements, UI polish, bug reporting tools, and several smaller fixes following the latest updates.Shimmer stone, the desert map, is now selectable as a starting map for a new game.A new setting has been added to invert the mouse buttons used to rotate and move the camera.A new in-game bug report panel has been added to the Settings menu.The bug report panel now gives easier access to the studio Discord, the save folder, and the log file to help players report issues.Ruins now display a visual indicator when Glyphite storage is full, making it clearer why extraction is paused.The Headmaster’s Board now animates the Satisfaction and Directorium Trust gauges when opened.Buildable areas have been adjusted across maps…

• 0.6.3 | Hotfix - 20 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on corridor placement, construction flow, teacher behavior, movement speed, map building areas, room destruction, UI feedback, and several important fixes following Update 0.6.0.And yes… corridor placement lag is gone!Corridors now cost resources.Corridors are now instantiated with a dedicated particle effect and animation.Corridors now increase student movement speed.Rooms now play their construction animations dynamically, with a different behavior than before.Destruction can now be performed on an entire zone.The ZzZ indicator has been extended to all room UIs containing a teacher.Prestige resource UI now updates with animations, like other resources.Corridor placement is now much smoother, and the previous lag has been removed.Building areas are now much larger across all maps.The Mana…

• 0.6.2 | Hotfix - 19 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on the well-being system, quest progression, save reliability, world map navigation, UI clarity, text polish, and video quality settings.Most importantly, this hotfix resolves a major quest issue that could prevent the game from progressing beyond the “Build an Alchemy Classroom” step.New quests have been added when a character sleeps on the floor.New quests can now appear when a character becomes the victim of a prank.New quests can now appear when a teacher is alone in their work room without an active task.Work room panels now display an indicator when the assigned teacher is asleep, making it clearer why they are not currently present.A loading screen now appears when changing video quality settings.A loading screen now appears when changing the game language.The well-being system has r…

• 0.6.1 | Hotfix - 18 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix is now available for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on world map navigation, ruins, room movement, mana storage, Headmaster’s Board polish, school identity, and several UI fixes following Update 0.6.0.World map icons now allow quick navigation between villages, teachers currently exploring, and the player’s academy.World map icons now react properly when hovered with the mouse.Next and previous buttons have been added to navigate between explored villages.A confirmation window now appears before destroying a room, displaying the amount of resources that will be recovered.The “per cycle” icon has been added next to the influence gain generated by a teacher assigned to a village.The school crest is now displayed correctly on Directorium missive seals.The school crest now appears properly on the world map.Moving a room now requires reconstructi…

• 0.6.0 | The Directorium & destinies update - 17 July 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️Update 0.6.0 is now available for Wizdom Academy!This is one of our biggest updates yet, bringing a large wave of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, balance adjustments, UI polish, performance improvements, and new systems that should make the academy feel clearer, smoother, and more alive.A lot has changed again in this version: the Directorium has a stronger presence, graduate destinies are more meaningful, villages now offer deeper strategic choices, mana management is easier to read, the onboarding flow has been improved, and many frustrating issues reported by the community have been addressed.Let’s dive in!New timed character demands have been introduced.Characters who reach a breaking point can now trigger a timed demand instead of leaving without warning.Timed demands now appear above the character’s head and in the alert bell.Opening a demand…

• 0.5.1 | Hotfix - 17 June 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new hotfix has arrived for Wizdom Academy!This update focuses on improving trials, recruitment, mana display, ruins destruction, tech tree feedback, and several issues that could block progression or create confusing UI behavior.The red notification bell now has an animation when a new alert is added to the red alert list.A new graduate button now appears when a trial is finished.Clicking the graduate button now opens the Graduate Panel, allowing you to choose the fate of recently graduated students.The graduate button now disappears once there are no more students waiting for fate selection.Tech tree nodes now display a shiny UI effect when enough Learning Points are available to unlock one of their sub-techs.The tech tree shiny effect now updates when opening the tech tree.The tech tree shiny effect now updates whenever Learning Point values change while…

• 0.5.0 | Directorium & duties update - 16 June 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new update has arrived in Wizdom Academy!This patch brings improvements to the Directorium system, village contributions, recruitment, trials, UI feedback, save loading, visual polish, and several important bug fixes. We’ve also added new quality-of-life features to make academy management clearer, smoother, and more responsive.Selection windows can now be moved by clicking and dragging them.Moved windows now keep their position when reopened, between sessions, and after loading a save.Error and confirmation popups can now be validated with Enter and cancelled with Escape.Characters waiting at the portal now display a clear icon showing whether they are a student or a teacher.Waiting bubbles have been improved with a larger display, a clearer gauge, and direct character selection on click.Inactive teachers now display an inactivity icon above their head an…

• 0.4.8 | Hotfix patch - 20 May 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters! 🧙‍♂️A new update has arrived in Wizdom Academy!This patch brings improvements to academy management, village exploration, decorations, building placement, visual feedback, and several long-awaited fixes.You may also notice a few festive Golem surprises across the maps… because even magical constructs deserve to celebrate their anniversary.New bell alerts now notify you when teachers have requests.Student mischiefs now trigger dedicated bell alerts, helping you react more quickly.The Village Exploration Panel now includes village resources.A confirmation panel has been introduced before launching village exploration.Exploration details are now displayed more clearly in the village interface.Decorations are now integrated into tooltips.The selected panel now supports decorations.Decorations now have their own dedicated category.A new decoration system has been int…

• 0.4.7 | Hotfix patch - 22 April 2026

  Greetings, Headmasters!A new update arrives at the Academy, bringing a major focus on villages, decorations, and overall UI clarity. This build lays important foundations for future content while improving the day-to-day management of your magical school.And this one is special. Wizdom Academy turns one year old today. To celebrate, a few surprises have made their way into the game… keep your eyes open 👀New ExplorationVillagePanel, with clearer structure and informationVillage Exploration now includes a confirmation step and resource visibilityFirst version of the decoration system, now influencing student well-beingIntroduction of a decoration score, with initial balancing passDecorations are now grouped into a dedicated categoryDecorations now appear properly in Tooltip and Selected panels, with selection highlightThe ManaTreeRoom evolves into a real HUB with interactive benches to r…

• Save 20% on Wizdom Academy during the Steam Medieval Fest! - 20 April 2026

  Greetings, apprentices and headmasters!We're thrilled to announce that Wizdom Academy is featured in this year's Steam Medieval Fest, running from April 20 through April 27.To celebrate, the game is 20% off for the duration of the event. Build your castle, manage your school and shape the next generation of wizards. There's never been a better time to get started.Whether you're a newcomer curious about what lies within these enchanted halls, or a seasoned player looking to gift the experience to a friend, now is your chance.Thank you all for your incredible support. We'll see you in the academy! 🧙Drop a review on Steam and join our Discord to help us keep the magic alive!SOCIALS : DISCORD | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK – Kipwak Studio & Lake On Fire Team

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