Last updated on February 15th, 2026 at 03:41 pm
Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire – Action Game Review
Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire is a Action/Casual/Entertainment game from Nitrome, first launched in 25th February 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,182+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire Stand Out
Wanted,
Wizard required for defence duties. Must be proficient in spell casting to pop varying balloon types that may be utilised by intruders. Must be confident working alone and comfortable facing aggressive hordes.
Advanced magic techniques desirable but can be learnt on the job. Applicant expected to provide their own spell book and potion bottles. They also may be required to make tea and answer phone calls.
Applicants should send CVs and potions portfolio to [email protected]
Use you finger to draw shapes. Match the shapes on balloons to pop them sending the invaders smashing to the ground. Keep the Enemy from reaching the castle for as long as possible!
Features:
- Intuitive gesture recognition drawing gameplay.
- A simple drawing concept that anyone can grasp!
- Full game centre support to compete with friends and foes.
- Collect coins to unlock new awesome spells.
Slow Down time!
Turn enemies into frogs!
Summon a mighty Dragon!
Cover the floor on Fire!
Make the Castle Turrets grow Gun Turrets!
Important information
This game contains third party advertising which can be removed via a one time IAP. This game contains coins which can be collected within the game for free, bought with real money or via earned via promotions. This game contains cross promotion for other Nitrome games and this is not removed with the IAP for removal of ads.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th October 2023
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Love this game been playing it for years.
Soooo hi we just want to know how do people spam the spells we have to wait for bubbles to spawn if you dont want people to spam then just add a cool down oh yeah why do we need to bye spells ty Bye also stop complaining about spells just when a bubble spawns thats when you use the spells oh yeah we deleted it before we couldnt use the spells then we understood.
Game fun but we noticed when you go to change the game mode that it scrolls in the order zen, classic, insane. No matter if you are on insane and then go back instead of going back to classic it goes to zen no matter what. Idk its just weird but we dont know if it is a bug or not.
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We love how addictive this game is. A play this game as a time filler, but really sometimes we just choose to sit down and play the game because its that good. We love the different game mode, but we wish there was a harder one. Insane is the one we always play and its hard but not what the name suggests. You should call this one hard and an even harder one insane. We like how you can progress in the game by buying potions that help you out. But hear this! It doesnt cost real money and only game coins. You can earn coins by playing the game easily. The potions are quiet cheap to start off. The one we are saving up for as of this moment is one that is 10,000 coins and in our average game play in insane mode we get 600 coins, this makes it hard but not a faraway goal. The game has no ads, and is playable without wifi! We play this on planes and car rides all the time. Our one suggestion is different maps, you get maps as you progress through a story with a plot. The endless mode is still playable, but there is another one called story mode. For example, a girl is trapped in a Evil Potions Headquarters and there are bosses, and mini bosses that try and stop you. The levels go on and get harder, at one point harder than insane mode. Please do this, it could be so interesting, but think of better stories and a way of laying it out. We never play zen, classic, or time attack. However, zen is the easiest, classic is slightly harder, and time attack is one we never play. We think you have a limited to get the most amount of points, but then the points will only vary slightly? So maybe time is added if you do well and we think there are bombs in that game mode. Good thing is it doesnt cost money, so you can see for yourself! Download it, you wont regret it.
Every time we try to do the brown symbol, it thinks we do the yellow arrow symbol. Pls fix.
Good really but a lot of the time we found ourselves losing because the game simply refuses to register the symbols Im making even though it is exactly what the game is telling us to do.
We bought the lightning spell and the time spell but you can never use them in the levels other than that its a pretty good game.
Why on earth has every great game got to flood the screen with ads. Ads in the gameplay, ads after each round, ads ads ads ads ads. Used to be great fun.
We love this game so much, especially with the pencil.
Great gameplay and love able silly graphics, our only complaint is that sometimes when you lose the game freezes and you have to restart it, but other than that we love it! Definitely a 10/10.
Good gamebut it crashes a lot > we.
Si t supieras to lo que us tard buscando esta joya de juego lo amoooooo.
10/10 buen juego para matar el tiempo cuando estoy high mas juegos con esta animacin porfavor, el juego del maletn es muy bueno tambin.
Great game also too all the people who say the game glitches its because you dont wanna watch ads and your phone is on airplane mode they made it so you have to close the game or watch ads.
We dont have much to say Ive never been much of a descriptive person but awesome game love it and hope the developer doesnt give up on it and makes more amazing updates! Much love.
We have always loved this game since it first came out. Ive always enjoyed the challenge, fast paced nature of it. But recently its become hard to play. Game freezes and crashes too often to the point it almost becomes unplayable. If you guys released an update to this game it would make things 10 times better.
The game is good but sometimes it has glitches when you lose we suppose its because the game is old (thats why we gave it 4 stars)but a side of that the game is fun, entertaining and challenging.
This is an amazing game, it looks great and we constantly am finding small details in a character, or the background. We would love to be able to play this game more but almost every round the game freezes up and doesnt load. This forces us to restart the game almost every round making it almost unplayable. Its unfortunate, because we feal like is this issue was fixed this game would be a 10/10.
The player will not responding when the game finish.
It freezes and we get no loot brah.
We really enjoy this game and wanna play it a lot more, but every time we play the game freezes or just stops working after the second game. We open the app, play a round, then go to play a second and when the second one ends it just freezes and doesnt give us a game over screen, and we have to close the app and we lose the coins and score we earned. This is always happening, we can only play one game then we have to close the app fully if we want to play again without the game freezing once we lose the second game we play. Anyways, we do like this game, its so fun!! We just wish we knew how to fix this.
Whenever we get killed by the golden knight we get stuck on the death screen.
This game is great. It would be one of the best phone games of all time, with its simple, fun, pick-up-&-play nature, its precise and speedy gameplay, and its charming artstyleBUT. This game does NOT run well. You have to be extra careful if you lose (or even START UP A ROUND), because if you simply breathe, you will be put into frozen game Limbo. THAT is why this game is simply just. Great.
We really like this game but theres a glitch that happens every time we lose where the screen doesnt change and Im not dead, and non of the knights fall.
Not much to say except its a good game but it needs improvements. It sometimes freezes so we have to close the app and loose our coins.
Id love to make this 5 stars but we cant because there is a glitch which freezes the game and it happens decently often. It is not our device because all the other games we play do not freeze. If this was fixed we would change our rating to five stars but until then it will remain the same.
Quick to learn hard to master. We highly recommend spending the $2 to remove ads because wow they are annoying. Theres a lot of cool things they could add like different modes or interesting challenges but the games fine the way it is.
Game is fun but it always freezes in the middle of a game which makes us force quit the game.
The spells dont work overall the games fun and the yellow balloon is just ooooof so overall. This games alright.
Love it Thanks so much Good job it sure is hard work to code One tiny mistake it might take a very long time to fix it but heres the truth we hate that it is like kind of pixel plz. Change it to normal please Other than that its perfect.
We are enjoying this game very much but it is super difficult to survive though. Maybe Im just bad at drawing line shapes like an upside down V or cursive L on its side… But whatever we are doing back, we are terrible at it. Also, we can only play two rounds before the face freezes and requires that we force quit the app and re-open it. We are hoping for some improvements soon, because we enjoy playing it so much.
We love this game, if it didnt freeze every second game it would be great. Im always having to close and open the game right after the first match just so we can keep our coins and score. Its super annoying over time and would give five stars if this issue is fixed, it seems unlikely though since the last bug fix was three years ago.
This game is a lot of fun, but we cant really enjoy it when it crashes almost every time we lose. Makes us not want to play it at all.
Pretty cool game only annoyance is the app hangs when you lose sometimes, requiring you to close the app.
Love the graphics and gameplay and the whole concept. The only issue is that when we lose the end screen never comes. Then we have to clear and restart the game and then lose all the coins we just earned. Please give at least a few updates to squash out some of the bugs.
This game is really a lot of fun. The problem with it is that whenever we get really far in a round, the game glitches and we loose all the coins that we would have gotten. The most recent loss was like 800 coins! We were not very happy. Im really sad because we want to keep playing this game but Im scared to because we dont want to loose everything we gain in the round.
Sometimes when you lose, the shock wave that comes from the enemy upon landing does not kill you. Not sometimes actually, let us rephrase MOST of the time! The only way to then get out of this screen is to restart the game. Thats not the main issue, im fine with that its whatever ig, but THEN we get none of the coins we just earned. Either fix the shockwave system and make sure it kills 100% of the time, fix the currency system so that it updates our bank instantly instead of only when the round is officially over, or fix both! Other than this, we really do like this game a lot, but this small issue that can easily be fixed really really really holds the game back a ton. Please read this and consider fixing this issue, it shouldnt take up too much of ur time and would make some ppl happy including ourselves. Thank you.
So theres a stupid glitch where if the casting animation overlaps the animation where you fall over, you will not be able to end the game which means if we got 310 score (which we did) if Overlapped would mean we would be stuck with no score and it happens all the time.
The game goes to a purple screen after a match and never progresses. We have an iPad Air 4th gen running on version 15.4.1 we can play a game again after we hard reset the app, but it is annoying.
We love this game, its so fun, BUT it freezes after every game. Like Ill fail and then it freezes and wont give us new high score but its fun and would be such a good fun thing to pass the time if there wasnt so many ads and if it didnt freeze every time we die.
This game is quite fun, yet there are many bugs that plague it. For example, once finishing a level, it may start heavily dropping frames before freezing, or the entire background of a gamemode might not even load, leaving you with a white screen with only the enemies on balloons. It sometimes even just crashes.
Great game hindered by 1 major issue. The game glitches on the enemy falling animation when the balloon pops when the enemy is super close to the ground. This happens 1 in 4 games for us.
Would be a great game if it didnt keep crashing and never saving progress.
Whenever we try to do a spell, nothing happens. The game is fun and we hope you guys fix it.
We really love the game, and we will love it more if there is no more bug. So the bug is: everytime the enemy fall right above the wizard, the wave that the enemy created does not hit the wizard, and from that point the game just crash, like, unplayable. So pls fix that bug fast ;-;.
It freezes please fix this its our favorite game. Ill get it removed right quick.
The game was great but they just added a new update that changed the game a lot.. It was better before the update if Im being honest.
Great game but every time we die the game freezes and makes us restart the app.
This game sounds cool on paper but there is not much to do at all and its very glitchy, often enemy shockwaves dont game over you but instead you turn immortal as the game is soft locked. (Also we highly doubt Nitrome will see this as the game seems to be abandoned.).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.8
- Size: 373.99 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Nitrome
Last updated: 16th October 2023 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Nitrome