The Dark Queen of Mortholme

It is an interesting idea that I would like to see developed into a fully featured game, definitely enjoyable, but a very short experience.

It's a short game, but for the price, I really couldn't ask for more. I loved the concept and the design—it’s just very different from what I'm used to playing. Unlocking all the endings was a lot of fun and took me just over an hour. Seeing the concept art really shows how much love goes into small projects like this one. Even though the game is short, it left me thinking about how the idea could be expanded. Things like making the Queen scale more, adding some kind of infinite loop, or even turning it into a roguelike. I know that would probably overcomplicate the original idea, but I honestly think it has so much potential. Putting that aside, I absolutely loved the core concept.

This game is about deception. Some spoilers ahead, you have been warned. It's not a Soulslike, it's Soulsinspired and that's fine, there's plenty of Soulslike out there and devianting from the beaten path is not a bad thing. But it's a trap for unwary players. The second deception is the concept, the game baits you into thinking you are an All Mighty EndGame Boss, but actually you are not, YOU are the one fighting the endboss, the game simply tricks you into that initial idea by giving you a couple easy rounds. After those easy wins the table begins to turn slowly, the hero dishes out more damage, avoids more, gets new weapons while you get slower, weaker and no upgrades. The game throws you a final deception by giving you an "uber form" but once again it's more show. But here is the funny part, the hero tells you all this during the fights, that he's learning YOUR patterns, YOUR attacks while your caracther comments that she has no avoidance mechanics, but rather than take the warning seriously you always end up just rushing to the next round. The third deception is thiking the chatter is just a filler. There are actually branching paths that shed some light into the Hero and the Queen while also taking a peak beyond the fourth wall. They are the major replay value as you try to figure out how to unlock new lines. YET, the choices have little impact on how the game ends, winning or loosing still depends on your fighting skills, so a deception inside a deception. There is one last deception which is what is throwing a of people off, you can get almost all achievements in one session (one doesn't actually require you to play the game) but the final one requires that you beat the game, it's not TOO difiicult but needs a bit more of work and bending fate's hand. I really enjoyed the game and I think the devs did well in keeping it short. It really gives a nice spin to the whole Boss Fight thing. Saddly the lore is the weakest part, you get the usuall good ending and bad ending and that's it, the caracthers speak a lot about change but when it comes it has little weight, you can make the end a bit more bittersweet or keep it straightfoward. I hope we can see these caracthers back for another run.

bad control scheme with no way to change it, no way to skip the 3 minute into, hitboxes dont line up with the sprites and sometimes hitboxes simply dont exist for your attacks game claims to have multiple endings, all but one ending is the same, minus meaningless dialogue choices, and the ending that is different requires you to not press any buttons. really engaging gameplay...

É um jogo curto que pode ser terminado em menos de uma hora , mas pra ideia que se propõe é muito bom . Compre na promoção pra me distrair e fez o que pretendia ,

dans les faits c'est un bon petit jeu, et je le recommande, mais faut vraiment faire un trucs avec les hits-box et la vitesses de nos attaques, pourquoi un cooldown pour elles ??? C'est juste frustrant, on est censé être le giga boss final ultime ultra puissant, mais une tortue pourrais interagir plus vite que nous, pourquoi on peut pas courir et faire des esquives par exemples? bref jeu sympa, mais le délire n'est pas respecter pour moi....