Quester is a role-playing game for PC, released by Thousand Games on 2023. Kazushi Hagiwara was deeply involved in the production and based on his suggestions, it was produced by Thousand Games. It's an indie game and includes hack and slash.
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This is a fun little dungeon crawler!
The battle system is solid. Each character has a number of AP to spend every turn. You set the abilities you want, and then combat plays out with autotargeting. The autotargeting was generally smart, so it allowed the game to move a bit faster will still allowing all of your characters to have multiple actions per turn. These actions were also interesting running the gamut of attacks, buffs, heals, debuffs, AoEs, attacks with debuffs, etc. Everything is useful -- stun and bleed played a big roll even on important boss fights for my team. Unfortunately, even with combat speed cranked all of the way up, things got a bit tedious by the end. I was browsing reddit as I waited for turns to play out in the last couple of zones.
I really enjoyed the equipment system in the game. Essentially, all of your abilities in combat are determined by the two weapons and one accessory each character can equip. Each piece of equipment is limited to certain classes and scales with a couple different stats, while sometimes providing new passives in addition to the active abilities. This made looting very exciting all game -- not only would numbers go up when you found a new weapon, but build variety would meaningfully change as well. An exciting loot system goes a long way to making a dungeon crawler fun!
The presentation was simple but effective. The controls for the UI were bafflingly weird, but they weren't too much of an impediment one I figured them out.
Another minor grip with the game is that the new members joining were typically far underlevelled, without any quick way of catching them up. I did switch one member out fairly late in the game, but it took hours for the new recruit to match up to the rest. It was worth it since she ended up being my best damage dealer, but it was needlessly annoying getting her caught up. Apparently New Game plus will allow you to start with a different team altogether, but I'm moving on for now at least.
Quester is a solid dungeon crawler, well worth a look if you like the genre.
The battle system is solid. Each character has a number of AP to spend every turn. You set the abilities you want, and then combat plays out with autotargeting. The autotargeting was generally smart, so it allowed the game to move a bit faster will still allowing all of your characters to have multiple actions per turn. These actions were also interesting running the gamut of attacks, buffs, heals, debuffs, AoEs, attacks with debuffs, etc. Everything is useful -- stun and bleed played a big roll even on important boss fights for my team. Unfortunately, even with combat speed cranked all of the way up, things got a bit tedious by the end. I was browsing reddit as I waited for turns to play out in the last couple of zones.
I really enjoyed the equipment system in the game. Essentially, all of your abilities in combat are determined by the two weapons and one accessory each character can equip. Each piece of equipment is limited to certain classes and scales with a couple different stats, while sometimes providing new passives in addition to the active abilities. This made looting very exciting all game -- not only would numbers go up when you found a new weapon, but build variety would meaningfully change as well. An exciting loot system goes a long way to making a dungeon crawler fun!
The presentation was simple but effective. The controls for the UI were bafflingly weird, but they weren't too much of an impediment one I figured them out.
Another minor grip with the game is that the new members joining were typically far underlevelled, without any quick way of catching them up. I did switch one member out fairly late in the game, but it took hours for the new recruit to match up to the rest. It was worth it since she ended up being my best damage dealer, but it was needlessly annoying getting her caught up. Apparently New Game plus will allow you to start with a different team altogether, but I'm moving on for now at least.
Quester is a solid dungeon crawler, well worth a look if you like the genre.
Really loved the game backstory and the way you instruct characters during battles make it very easy to pick up even when doing other things, high variety of classes and weapons, just didn't give it a higher score because I really love customizable classes, sure that would make it the game a little less easy to play, but just the option would be very cool.
First run ended with about 35 hours more or less, but that is because I decided to change some of my party members right by the end of the game and had to do some grinding.
First run ended with about 35 hours more or less, but that is because I decided to change some of my party members right by the end of the game and had to do some grinding.
Genuinely a really fun, short, dungeon crawler. It started to wear a little thin by the end, but overall quite good.