Dark Quest 4

BUY THIS GAME! -The President

A fun game with a simple but satisfying game loop. It feels good to plan your strategy and successfully execute it. If you like HeroQuest, you'll enjoy this. Its not particularly long or difficult, but there is enough of a challenge and learning curve that made me fail some runs. It has a good range of characters that all have unique playstyles. The customization with potions, items, and special abilities was engaging. Unfortunately, there wasn't much in the way of variety or creativity in the challenges, and some of the more interesting enemy mechanics (such as in the Mirror stage) were not used elsewhere. While its not the point of the game, the story is rather lacking and writing quite poor. The biggest con is the UI/UX. I found it to be quite confusing sometimes, especially with movement being combined with actions and when using the Fire Mage's wall of flame ability. I also once got stuck in a game-breaking bug where the UI became unresponsive and i could not perform any actions. I nonetheless enjoyed this game. I recommend it, but would probably wait for a sale!

I thoroughly enjoyed this game, probably the best of the saga, alongside DarkQuest 2. Recommended.

If you're into Hero Quest the board game you will like this game

I played every of the four instalments of "Dark Quest", but Part 4 is something special for me. I played the Demo a while ago, and identified a few little things that were of the accessability-kind that has some importance to me. I used the commentary function to the Demo's topic, and the Devs answered that they will see what they can do for me in the final game. And now that I'm playing Part 4 I realize: They truely did! That little story besides, I love "Dark Quest 4" because of: + a great tabletop feeling with dungeons that are truely a memory of big old "Hero Quest"-campaigns. I was, for example, highy thrilled by the amazing "Laboratory" that unlocks after you find a certain key in another level + a known but advanced collection of heroes that you'll HAVE TO become friends with, because your favorite characters get hurt, get tired, and regain strength through "pausing" a quest + a tactial collection of items, spels, runes, and so much more to apply to your characters. You cannot attach everything to everyone, and there's only one item of every kind (like in the boardgame, the game is so greatly inspired by). That makes it a challenge to figure out whose synergies are the best…

Worth it