Queen's Wish: The Conqueror

I recommend this game for its writing, story, fort building mechanics, and the many choices it presents to the player. Queen's Wish: The Conqueror has a relatively unique premise and story line and the writing is of excellent quality. You take on the role of the youngest member of Haven's royal house and are tasked with restoring Haven's rule over the three countries continent of Sacramentum. Ultimately, this requires convincing a faction within each country to sign a treaties of vassalage within Haven. This process involves finding out what the faction wants and completing a quest or quests to give it to them. There is also the question of what caused a great calamity that drove the vast majority of Haven's forces and institutions off of the continent. Solving this mystery is another key element of the game. Political and economic decisions and considerations thus constitute a major part of the story, alongside the traditional fantasy elements of the game. The fort building is a satisfying element that adds yet more uniqueness to Queen's Wish: The Conqueror. Much of the best equipment in the game is obtained through stores built in your very own forts. As you explore Sacramentum, you find the ruins of Haven's old forts and are tasked with restoring them. Within each fort you can build various stores, along with other things, including barracks, bakeries, and distilleries. The more stores that you have built across all of your forts, the better the items that the merchants can sell to you. There is plenty of loot in dungeons and other locations and vendors exist outside of the forts, but much of the best equipment is only available if you build up Haven's forts. Building up the forts and watching them turn into bustling a mini-towns is entertaining and provides a visible indication of progress for the main quest line. The graphics and sound effects are basic, but adequate enough for the game. The combat mechanics and character progression, while not extremely deep, are also sufficient. If you are looking for an RPG with deep gameplay and combat mechanics and detailed character progression then this game is unlikely to fulfill those desires. However, if you want to play a CRPG with an interesting story that presents that player with a large number of decisions and choices then this game is a good option. The Queen's Wish series is more niche than the Geneforge series, but still good. The true draw of Queen's Wish: The Conqueror comes in the form of the world building, the writing, the story line itself, the fort building mechanics, and the fact that the player is presented with numerous choices throughout the game on a variety of topics and issues.

As with any Spiderweb game, it's amazing. Thanks!

I absolutely adore this game. Jeff Vogel is a master craftsman, and this is one of his best works (though, if you ask his fanbase this is considered to be one of his 'not so great' pieces, deviating narratively and mechanically from the other core titles in a way that some don't like... though I find this analysis to be... wrong). Queen's Wish captures that feeling of 'living in a place' and 'playing a role' (roleplaying) in such a superb way. Like always, try to put aside your desire for modern graphics or super high fidelity art, and instead engage with the artwork here as presented... it is lovely, gorgeous, engaging, intimate, and full of personality in a way that is not immediate at first glance, but rapidly captures you and leaves you enthralled. This is a 10 out of 10 game. Mechanics, story, world, gameplay, and fun.

Tradcore

Не уверен чем должна быть это игра... Или точнее, а чего я ожидал? Полагаю мне виделся скрытый алмаз, что не получил широкой известности из-за плохой графики. Увы, но это не тот случай... Сюжетка и квесты? Да не, скукота какая-то. Прокачка героев - слабее еще поискать. Спутники - нету... Градострой - репететивный и простой. Боевка... ну тут нет ни комбат лога, ни шансов попадания, ни панели инициативы (скорости). Да, в теории можно просто кликать на всех врагов ПКМ и смотреть их статы и сравнивать со своими... Ну, про QoL не слышали видимо? Ну и в принципе боевка довольно спорная, позиционирование, зоны контроля, укрытия - все отсутствует. Интерфейс и прочее - прямиком из 1990. Учитывая что игра собирала 100к на кикстартере, я просто не понимаю почему давно нельзя было перейти на нормальный движок и осовременить игру. Неужели серия собирается вечно полагаться на старых фанатов и совсем не заинтересована в притоке новых игроков? Ну, их дело...

Probably the weakest of all of Spiderweb's series but it's still a banging good time. Super fun writing, pleasing resolutions to long storylines, and a surprising amount of challenge in the endgame. I also really liked that random fights didn't have any reward whatsoever, it incentives you to think about how to get passed them without fighting. Doesn't have the lasting appeal of Geneforge or Avernum to me (probably just nostalgia talking) but I'm excited to continue this trilogy