Trendy Gamers: Morality choices are increasingly popular devices in modern games. The light or dark side of the force, good or evil, drowning this kitten or giving it to the kindly old lady. From Star Wars: KOTOR through to InFamous (and its sequel) most action-RPG games in recent years have some kind of mechanic whereby you can choose to either do something benevolent or nasty. Unfortunately, these choices are often so heavily signposted that it feels clumsy, or you have no idea that you’re actually causing game-wide genocide because you didn’t ask a random NPC for some sugar in your tea. Thankfully, in EvilQuest, such choices are redundant. You are Galvis, and you are Evil.
Chaz at Twinfinite writes:
What do you get when you take one part SNES action-RPG, one part indie development, and one part plot twist? EvilQuest, of course. An homage to bygone days of gaming, EvilQuest falls somewhere in between Crystalis for the NES and The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past for the SNES, with the unique story twist that you’re not the hero trying to save the world from annihilation, but rather the dark, powerful foe seeking to kill God himself and destroy the universe. This leads to some campy elements, as you might expect, but overall I thought it was pretty well put together.
EvilQuest is an indie action RPG developed by Chaosoft Games which gives gamers the rare opportunity to actually play a game from the bad guy’s perspective. Despite sometimes feeling bad for the senseless murders you commit throughout the course of the game, it is surprisingly fun to play as a feared evil warlord.
Chaosoft Games announced today via Twitter that their game EvilQuest will be on sale on Desura for $0.99 until December 22nd or until the world ends. Whichever comes first.
This looks like some straight up old school fun! I'll have to check out EvilQuest ;) This one would have slipped past my radar.
It's a lovely little game. In fact I challenge you to find almost anything else this good - game or otherwise - for this price! Be warned though, if you don't revel in immaturity you may get quite annoyed.