The Quest for the BIG KEY
hOSHI · 2018 · Indie, Casual, Adventure, Action, Retro
PC
Positive83% · 24
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About The Quest for the BIG KEY
The Quest for the BIG KEY is highly inspired by NES classics that you will no doubt recognize. It focuses more on the exploring part. It comes completely without Enemies and Battles. So if you like finding secret passages and collecting items that allow you to progress in different parts of the map, this game is for you.
Just don't die!
Since the game is really not that long, there are no checkpoints. You won't need them. My playtesting kids (age about 5 and 7 years) finished the game in about 55 Minutes and died about 10 times. So you will have no problem as well ;)
Just don't die!
Features:
- Exploring
- Secret Rooms
- About 10 different Pickups
- More than 60 Rooms
What it has NOT:
- Random Battles
- Enemies
- Fights
- Puzzles
- Checkpoints
- Save Games
- Long Gameplay
- A high price
What it has:
- Coins
- Heart Containers
- Bombs
- Keys
- More Pickups
- Power Ups
- Gameplay: About an hour
- Speedrun: I did it in 20 Minutes (please share a video of your time)
Since the game is really not that long, there are no checkpoints. You won't need them. My playtesting kids (age about 5 and 7 years) finished the game in about 55 Minutes and died about 10 times. So you will have no problem as well ;)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is made by 1 person .. impressive7 found this helpful
Extremely short and weird game with some nonsensical story but it's also weirdly fun. The game would have been far better without the invisible walls which will put most off most players. This game is about walking around in the open world looking for hidden stuff that you need to progress in the game to reach the end. There's not much to do other than that.2 found this helpful
A retro experience that takes you back a lot further than most, all the way to -- the Atari 5200? Intellivision? It's hard to say. However, while the pixel graphics are nice and refreshing, The Quest for the Big Key also brings back a lot of things from the retro era that [i]aren't[/i] so nice: * No way to resize the screen to a more comfortable level * No sound or volume controls, including no way to turn off the music without turning down your [i]computer's[/i] volume * No way to reconfigure the controls, which are awkward on an 8-button joypad * No map, combined with very same-y environments * No storyline besides tidbits of lore too vague to be meaningful * Very little thought required, only exhaustive searching and, worst of all, * No way to save the game or continue, meaning you must finish the entire game in one sitting on a single life. There's more than one way to define a "retro" game. One definition is that a retro game has the sensibilities and graphic look of an older era in video gaming. The other definition is that a retro game should be just like a game would have been had it been released decades ago ... including all of the aggravations and weaknesses that were …1 found this helpful
Haha, very cute, very short little game
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Another day another review. This one... this one is a little subpar. It just feels a little bit empty. But hey that's not the game's fault. This is just a short little game, however due to the permadeath for making one wrong little move I can't exactly recommend this in good faith. So I have to give it a negative review.
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