Full Title

The Wizard’s Beans Or: A Short Period of Unplanned Internment

Developer

Pixel Prophecy, Austria

Genre

Comedy Puzzle Text Adventure

Rating

12+

Number of Players

Single-player

Platforms

Release Date

Q3 2025

Regular Price

  • EUR: 4.49
  • USD: 4.99

Website

Tag Line

The Wizard’s Beans Or: A Short Period of Unplanned Internment is a text-based comedy adventure involving enchanted beans, alchemical elements, and most uncivil confinement while tackling subjects such as personal boundaries and humor.

Description

Story

It had to happen at some point: An evil wizard locked you up in his tower! Since he probably has plans for you, you need your wits to plan your escape. Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, and confront the menacing mage. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.

Features

  • Lovingly crafted by a human being with human flaws, no LLM slop!
  • Fair game design (no deaths, dead ends, or mazes)
  • Comedy writing from one of the best comedy writers here in the room with me right now
  • Dynamic puzzles: Each playthrough is unique
  • Typographically typeset for a convenient reading experience.
  • Save/Load system and undo-feature
  • Non-gendered player character
  • Achievements
  • (Music, ambiance and sound effects augment your immersion)
  • Almost*) no deaths and only mild (or implied) violence
  • Petable creatures!

*) There is one situation but players are given ample warning.

The game is not for you if you are looking for

  • RPG systems
  • Romance options
  • Combat

History

The Wizard’s Beans started as Bean There, Done That, an entry in the Ludum Dare 56 game jam for which it was made in 48 hours. In the end, the game placed 8th in mood, 6th in humor, and 4th in audio.

Inspired by its success, we here at Pixel Prophecy decided to massively crank up the production value, expand the game, add more puzzles, punch up the humor (and ourselves), and add a spoonful replay value.

Assets

Download all in a single .zip file

Keyart

Logos

Screenshots

Misc

Game Credits

Phil Strahl
Writer, Designer, Composer, Programmer, Artist, Intern, Assistant to Mr. Strahl

Contact

Business Inquiries

Phil Strahl
(click/tap to reveal email-address)

Content Creation and Monetization Policy

We encourage and support journalists, streamers, and content creators to create and share content based on The Wizard’s Beans.

You are welcome to record, stream, and publish gameplay videos, reviews, commentary, essays, and similar content using footage from The Wizard’s Beans, on platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, and others. You are also permitted to monetize this content through platform-based ad revenue, tips, sponsorships, or other lawful means.

Please observe the following conditions:

This policy is subject to change. For commercial use beyond these guidelines, or if you have specific questions, feel free to contact us.