Rogue Quest: The Vault of the Lost Tyrant

[b] Rogue Quest: The Vault of the Lost Tyrant [/b] largely relies on nostalgia for retro adventure games such as those made by LucasArts. Considering that I am the ideal audience for this game, I found it a little disappointing. It recycled many old ideas but never gave me that heartwarming experience that many games in this genre are capable of. When it comes point&click games, I look for originality, beautiful backgrounds and enjoyable dialogue that I did not find in this title. Rogue Quest ended very quickly not giving me time to invest myself. The dialogue was spoon feeding me the entire time with obvious hints and exposition. Pirates that acted as comedic relief were not all that funny. Our main character did not get much development, or any good traits other than a stereotypical rogue female. Overall I found the writing for this game rather forceful. All of the puzzles were easy and kind of dumb (like I know what I have to do but it makes no sense). Some of them are just reused...

A short, low budget point and click that has enough appeal to check out when on sale, although I wouldn't go as far as to really recommend it after writing down the following thoughts: + The background graphics are nice + The character design and animations are allright enough. + Some nice usage of royalty free music (as mentioned in the credits). + There's something interesting about the world and setting the story takes place in - But not enough is told or exposed to get you sucked in. - The sound effects are poor and don't really fit the game. - The dialogues are not very strong. The funny bits lack wit or intelligence, mostly just filled in with the word 'dumb' to be done with it. - The game is very short and straight forward. Not a lot of rooms, not a lot of objects objects of interaction. Even with as little locations as this game has there could have been more hot spots to be looked at and commented on by the main character, either adding to the lore or just for fun. I would...

I enjoyed this fairly straightforward point and click adventure. Good value for money too!

Despite some localization issues (English Translation could use some polishing) this is a really fun little game. Distinctive art style, good music, memorable characters and some genuinely funny moments. If you are into Pirates of Monkey Island or others like it, then you will enjoy Rogue Quest. https://youtu.be/dtJHAE4t0dg

As a fan of other products of ExperaGames (Tale of Caos), I was looking forward to this game, to see a little more of Cassandra and Caos away from the hijinx of Terry and Heimlich. This is very much in keeping with the general style and mood of Caos-based games and was a nice, if short addition. Pros-and-cons below. +A cute story with engaging characters, who I imagine (hope) will appear in other titles. This made a nice introduction to these characters. +Nostalgic graphics that clearly harkened back to the days of LucasArts and Sierra. +Straight-forward gameplay and puzzle system; this game was very straight-forward and the puzzles were logical. +Easter eggs to their other series helped flesh out the world of Caos, making it feel well-populated and interesting. +Simplified controls. Tbh I really missed all of Terry's gadgets, but for the simple game that this was I understand...further, there was little, if any, learning curve to pick up the controls. +Low price. -As the game la...

I bought Rogue Quest awhile back on a Steam sale for less than the $3.99 price tag and forgot what my original interest was to compare my experience with. I have not played ExperaGameStudio's other game that a previous reviewer mentioned, so maybe the original developer intent was to play both. If this was the case though, I'd rather see it marked as a $1.99 DLC in a bigger game that featured the world elements I was actually curious about. For me, Rogue Quest started off a little too far into the main character's journey, and stopped too soon to satisfy the short time I spent journeying with her. I got the idea of what her world was like outside of the Vault of the Lost Tyrant, but the exposition didn't have a later payoff and just fell flat because of it. This wasn't a terrible game and if there was a middle button I'd have chosen it instead. But ultimately, if I look at cost to entertainment value, this wasn't worth the hour of my time it took to finish the game, and it left me w...

Gameplay is approximately 45 minutes. Pros: I like the look and personality of the game. I get the feeling this was a very small team that worked on this. I did not pay full price for this game (~$1) which was likely a factor in my recommending this game. Cons: Current list price is $3.99 but for such a short amount of gameplay it is hard to justify that cost unless you like supporting small game developers. Maybe if this were episodic and more chapters were on the way, it would justify the full cost. The observation from other reviews that this the puzzles were very linear is true though.

Fun little project, can be beaten in a few hours, but I enjoyed the nostalgia and the writing is pretty good imo, reminds me of a mix between disney and contemporary fantasy writing. A fun little game, that you can fill gaps in a day with for a few hours and come a way feeling accomplished and have fun amusing things to think about, recommended. Hope to see more from this little studio they got some nice ideas.

I like it! Definitely get it on sale but it's an interesting story tie in with eXperia's other flash titles. As for this game, it could use some polish - more responsive objects that don't suddenly just pop up, and better "combination" text, and the corridor screen should be shrunk or made scrollable, to make travelling easier (Miss Nech is in no hurry, unless you double click an exit object!)- but it's not too bad. I give it 3 stars, but Cassandra is 5/5 best girl and queen of the Rogue's Guild!

Pros: * Amusing Cons: * VERY SHORT. Buy only on sale * Puzzles are easy I personally liked it, because of the character, who was amusing, but other than that, don't expect much. It is too short to be an actual game.