The Dark Queen of Mortholme

A cute fun game that explores the futility of being a video game boss. A little sillyness with interesting retro graphics, I have enjoyed several rounds of this game. For a few hours the price of 5 dollars seems right.

6/10 Game, I'd say it's worth $5. The sprite work is absolutely gorgeous, and the characters are nice as well. However, I think it does sort of fall flat gameplay wise? I get that is the entire point of such a game, but it feels Too flat. You need to balance the user experience and your narrative. Nobody's gonna enjoy your story fully if progressing the story feels clunky. Speaking of story, this game does also suffer from honestly not providing enough options that matter. Truth be told, there's little difference in your choices. You will reach an Ending. Hell, the other two endings are from either not caring about choices, or not even making choices. I think this game could've benefitted from having more genuine endings rather than one ending, an easter egg ending and a joke ending... I think there could be more QoL for the game. Such as speeding things up further on repeat runs, or making the controls not feel absurdly clunky and miserable if you want to do swiftish turns. It feels like you and the Hero are apart of separate games with how the move styles and speeds are different. It torches the immersion a tad bit. Not to mention the game suffers with one of its more expected endings... /// Spoilers Below /// The ending where you beat the Hero, is honestly... purely frustrating and unrewarding. You are required to do it for 100%, and yet it feels like a slog. Sometimes the Hero is simply unpredictable or borderline cheating, and you merely get access to three pretty bad moves. All with the limiting factor of not being allowed to enter Phase 2. Granted you get a safety net the first few Phase 2 procs if you don't ever attack, but I think that's not nearly enough to excuse an entire ending being behind what feels like RNG. Even if you use the boring cheese strategy of Move 3 Spam + Mace, it's just... unrewarding. The only purpose to do this is for 100% completion. It would feel more fun if your own skills as a human were more rewarded, as trying to accomplish this without the cheese is almost impossible. It's even WORSE if you fail. Because then you must go through all the steps once more. Some of the dialogue can't be sped-up or skipped for some reason either. It makes for a bitter experience. It's an alright game, especially if you do not care for 100%ing your games. It's got stunning visuals and a nice bittersweet mainline story. But everything else sort of... just sucks. Only really positive thanks to mainline story and visuals.

Too repetitive and short. Not good enough to be worth it IMHO.

Good game, exactly what you'd expect, just wish there was more endings that I'm pretty sure we all want.

Delightful little game.

Great 30-minute experience. Not many games let you play as the final boss, and even less explore the depth of the final boss's place in the world and relationship with Heroes.

Хорошая игра. Жаль, что она ограничилась лишь одной комнатой.

The Dark Queen of Mortholme é um jogo simples, mas que entrega uma experiência diferente das que os outros jogos geralmente oferecem. Através de uma arte bem feita e sob uma perspectiva diferente das que estamos acostumados, pois aqui jogamos como o vilão da história, tendo como objetivo derrotar a heroína que veio por um fim no nosso reinado, podemos observar a interessante evolução e ideais desses dois personagens através dos diálogos apresentados enquanto lutamos, algo que, na minha experiência, eu digo que foi divertido. Considerando o baixo preço do jogo e seu pequeno tempo de duração (eu terminei 100% em 2.4 horas), eu certamente recomendo pra quem quer que esteja interessado adquirir o jogo!