Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls is a the first game of the Wizardry series in English in ten years. The game is a localized version of the Japanese game Wizardry: Torawareshi Tamashii no Meikyū originally released in December 2009, and was developed by Acquire and published by XSEED Games for the PlayStation Network. Although originally developed for the Apple II and released in the U.S. in 1981, the Wizardry series has been kept alive in Japan by various developers. The dungeon-crawling role-playing game franchise hasn't been seen in the West since 2001's duo of Wizardry 8 for Windows and Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for the PlayStation 2.
The game is very similar to the first game in the series, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. The player controls a party of up to six characters, venturing deep into a dungeon on a series of quests.