The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain

Secret word: bard. It’s fun to play a game where your choices actually shape the kingdom’s future. What I especially liked is that you don’t play the usual “hero,” but more of an antagonist figure, someone with influence and sharp edges rather than noble intentions. That twist makes the whole experience fresh and engaging.

secret word: Barbarian Assessment of my advisory skills: magnificent got to build a kingdom's military by answers some questions was nice and simple

UPDATED REVIEW: Per the developer's advice, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, as well as verified the files. This seemed to resolve the crashing issue and I was able to complete Episode One without any further issues. Overall I enjoyed the first episode, and look forward to seeing how the story develops. I'm greatly enjoying the conceited, self-interested version of Magnus I've managed to craft through my responses, and am curious as to what, if anything, will change with a different set of responses. If you've played the other Test series of games, the question-and-answer game style will feel familiar, if a touch more roleplay-ish this time around. Interested to see what's next! My word is Fame, and I think Magnus should stay at Haralt's kingdom. (Original Review): The game crashed on me twice. Once right before the question session began, which wasn't so bad to restart. But the second time was about halfway or so through the Assassinations question set. The screen froze up in both instances (sconces in the background stopped flickering, couldn't click to continue questions, hitting escape did absolutely nothing). There is no mid-session save point, so restarting would mean doing the ENTIRE thing over, and there's just no way I'm going to waste my time again and hope THIS time it will make it all the way through. Super disappointing, since I like the other Test games in the series, and this one looked to have more meat on the bone.

The game is quite fun, its just a bunch of questions, but they are fun to answer. Maybe there were a little bit too many canibalism questions ^w^ˇ The concept of the game is interesting, I just hope they do make a chapter 2, otherwise the potential is all a bit of a moot point. Magnus is an interesting charakter, compleatly brutal, executes 2 people with no remorse, but atleast his charakterization is consistent, he does like animals as shown in a few dialogue options concerning them. Some of his responses are a bit Reditor level, like, could you be more mature bro? I was a bit disapointed about him just killing the ||merchant|| at the end, he saved his life at the start and the way he talked about him made it seem like he would be important for the plot going forward. My secret word was attack, my ranking was "great", and i think magnus should totaly defect to lord Faryn, he doesn't exactly have any attachements to the kingdom or Harys (or whatever the kings name is), him swaping sides to get a magical artefact is totaly in charakter

Want to take a personality profile that is being used for... who knows what purposes? Are they profiling Steam users? Running a behavioral research study without having to go through an ethics reviewing committee? Obsessed with public opinions on nutrition but trying to collect a bias sample of responses? It's the dumbest possible click-through survey with mediocre graphics and zero story, zero resolution. Deeply regret the purchase and waste of time 0/10.

Continue button is obsolete. Since the playtime per sitting is fairly long, they should at least have rollback features to go back on a choice, or a skip feature to get past the intro for a fresh attempt. Some of the responses aren't reflective of the selected decision, and it's hard to know if you're answering these questions as yourself, or as the mage. Word: blessing. Not sure if there are alternate endings, but don't feel like exploring rn. My end assessment was fantastic so if anyone got terrible or something, comment what ending you got.

Quite nice and entertaining, I hope part 2 gets out soon. It's probably the best game this developer has produced. 9/10

The word I got is: Morale

My secret word: Fame

Pros: - Indie developers - Cute graphics _ Interesting character. Cons: - I became very tired/ bored about halfway through and was just waiting for it to end - If you are in to battle strategy questionnaires, this is for you, but that's the only demographic it will appeal to. - Although I can appreciate the time and effort that went into it, don't think it's worth the price tag. It seems more like a passion project/result of a hobby