Questboard Steam Review – The Game Slush Pile

QuestBoard has a lot of potential, assuming a community appears. It is a shell of game. On a website, you can create your own stories that will play out in the game. As for the game itself, you are an adventurer, you enter a tavern. You approach the quest board and pick a story. It is a Choose Your Own Adventure-style quest. You usually have 2-3 options. Some options will require a dice roll based on a stat(Strength, Charisma ect). If you complete the story you get gold and exp. Gold is used to buy health potions, weapons and armor, the latter 2 affecting stat rolls. EXP is used to gain levels, where you add a stat modifier of 1 to a stat. And if you die, you get gold deducted and reappear in your room.

Outside of questing, there’s not terribly much to QuestBoard. You can visit your room to rest up and restore health. You can visit the store. You can also play bar games where you get gold. One game is a dice roll game, beat the dealer’s roll. Another is an enemy gauntlet. There’s also an NPC reputation system, but I’m not sure what it does exactly. As for graphics and sound, everything is in retro green and black. There’s a nice chiptune soundtrack to go along with it.

As I said at the beginning, QuestBoard is game with limitless potential. There are 200 pre-made quests in the game. The real draw is that you can create your own stories at the link above, then upload them to the Steam workshop for players to download. Currently there are only 2 stories, created by the developer. More will come I’m sure, but will enough appear to sustain it? And how many of those stories will be X-rated tales of bedding maidens, or even worth your time if G rated? The answer to those questions is I don’t know. For that reason, I’m hesitant to give it a Must Play verdict. But I’ll give it anyway with a nine score hoping that enough people buy it and write stories to make the game really shine.

Overview: Questboard is a cool retro-style Choose Your Own Adventure game with limitless potential, assuming enough people show up to sustain it.

Verdict: Must Play

Score: 9

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P.S. For a similar game, try Dungeons and Tales.

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