Queen's Wish: The Conqueror

This game in horribly repetitive with little charm. I love spiderweb this is a huge miss compared to their usual quality. I tried my best to like it and it spit in my face multiple times. It's just unimaginative dungeon after dungeon with little reward. I was playing and finally lost in the the ahriel thicket where the game just traps you and autosaves. I wanted to check the place out because i was exploring and wam an hour of progress gone on top of early frustration. Boring and brutal for little reason.

Very well done with challenging fiights.

So it is a spiderweb software game. You know what that is if you are here, if not it is a game made by a dude, his wife, and a handful of people who get contracted on occasion, it will be a very classical style of computer RPG, and the writing will have a particular flavor to it, a love more of talking about the world itself and the relationship those individuals have to the world/political situation at large. This game hits all of those notes but tragically experimented in a way that was not the best received. This game is not pretty, even by Spiderweb standards because the design is meant to quickly and accurately communicate the state of the battlefield, it is a wonderfully set up map, if you are judging it as more of a tabletop RPG encounter, this is built for you to look at the field, know everything and make sure you can learn what all the pieces on the board do so that you can have a handful of short but vicious fights on that map, achieve what you went there to do, and move on to the next thing you need to do, the next decision you need to make. Because that is what this game is, political and moral choices that can come with consequences down the road broken up by some pretty clean fights and good pacing (as long as you don't drag your feet too much). It is damned good in my book, I enjoyed all the time I put in to my playthrough, grew to enjoy the primary movers and shakers in the plot, and appreciate the twists some of the factions themselves have. It is a great game, but unfortunately it may be the last time Spiderweb software really gets to try making something new. Give it a buy at a price that you'd feel fine with 40+ hours of neatly paced indie CRPG fun if you are being a bit of a completionist , or better yet play the demo that covers about 1/6th-ish of the game and decide that price yourself and since every spiderweb software game has a similarly generous demo, give them a try too if you like this one, maybe Avernum or Geneforge is more your speed than this and that's A-Okay, but give Jeff Vogel your money for his and his wife's tireless efforts for over 30 years to make fun budget CRPGs.