Questboard

This game is not ready for a 13$ price tag. 3.99$ would be a much more appropriate price. The game is as bare bones as you can get without having major issues. There's no option to have the text just appear, so you're forced to wait for the text to scroll every single time you go to a new screen (even with the "fast text" setting on). There's no real epicness to any of the quests. They usually involve rolling a d20 3-4 times before the quest is over. There's no differentiation in the "combat" between different monsters. Everything dies within one or two dice rolls. The quests are all just copies of one another with different names and images thrown in. For example: The minigame in Fallout4 "Grognak The Barbarian" has far more design and interactivity with choices and consequences that this. I think the bones are good, but they need a real story developer to create a real campaign with more choices that hold weight, more items, more reason for the stats, etc etc. It feels like a demo, and I feel ripped off for paying 13$ for it.

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. Still, I do hope an audience appears!

Questboard is a return to the old days of simplicity. It does not seek to reinvent a genre but works to make you remember one so long forgotten to time.